MILAN — The Brera Modern will be inaugurated in the fall 52 years and 39 Italian governments after it was first envisioned, officials announced Monday. The new museum just a few doors from Milan’s Brera Painting Gallery will house more than 100 contemporary art works that belong to Brera’s collection that have mostly been relegated … Read more
TORONTO — The daughter of the late Nobel laureate Alice Munro has accused the author’s second husband, Gerard Fremlin, of sexual abuse, writing that her mother remained with him because she “loved him too much” to leave. Munro, who died in May at age 92, was one of the world’s most celebrated and beloved writers … Read more
Russia has rained missiles down on cities across Ukraine in broad daylight, killing at least 29 civilians and badly damaging Kyiv’s main children’s hospital in the deadliest air strike in months, officials say. Hundreds of people rushed to clear debris at the hospital, where windows had been smashed and panels ripped off. Parents holding babies … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea said Monday it’ll withdraw its earlier plan to suspend licenses of striking doctors as part of its efforts to resolve the country’s months-long medical impasse. It wasn’t immediately known whether and how many of thousands of the striking doctors would return to work in the wake of the government’s … Read more
Earth’s more than year-long streak of record-shattering hot months kept on simmering through June, according to the European climate service Copernicus. There’s hope that the planet will soon see an end to the record-setting part of the heat streak, but not the climate chaos that has come with it, scientists said. The global temperature in … Read more
The death of a two-year-old British girl who was found trapped in her grandparents’ recliner armchair has been ruled as an accident. Emaan Raza was found unresponsive at her grandparents’ house in Oxford about noon on May 19. According to The Oxford Mail, the girl was found unresponsive behind an electronic, adjustable reclining armchair, which … Read more
When Hannah was seven years old, she told her parents she didn’t want to be afraid of food anymore. She had stopped wanting to go to Girl Scouts, birthday parties, restaurants, family celebrations and even the dinner table. Food was everywhere, and it gave her a lot of anxiety, said her mum, Michelle, who is … Read more
BERKELEY, Calif. — As a boy in Milwaukee, Ziyad Saleem would walk through the house pretending to swim backstroke — arm circling backward along the right ear and over his shoulder, then the other arm doing the same on the left side. Some days he would also propel both arms forward as if doing butterfly. … Read more
Jon Landau, an Oscar-winning producer who worked closely with director James Cameron on Titanic and the Avatar series, has died aged 63. Alan Bergman, Disney Entertainment co-chairman, announced Landau’s death in a statement. No cause of death was given. “Jon was a visionary whose extraordinary talent and passion brought some of the most unforgettable stories … Read more
Four people have been killed and three others wounded in an early shooting during a birthday party at a home in the US state of Kentucky. The shooting suspect later died after fleeing the home and leading police on a vehicle pursuit that ended with the suspect’s car falling into a ditch, police said Saturday. … Read more
