Studio, Opera House, September 16. Until September 19 In the most true-blue modern dance biography you’ll ever read, Lewis Major describes himself as an enterprising sheep shearer-turned-award-winning-choreographer. “He is the only dance artist he’s ever heard of,” his biography quips, “who can reverse parallel park a tractor”. I was slightly crestfallen that there were no
A two Michelin-starred restaurant in Seoul has been fined for using ants as a dessert garnish. The owner of Evett in the South Korean capital was fined 15 million won (£8,144; $10,965), while the company operating the restaurant was fined 10 million won for violating the Food Sanitation Act, local media report. Ants are not
The boss of Snapchat says the firm would be “willing to implement” time limits for teens, following a call from Meta for it to take action. Evan Spiegel told the BBC in an interview at the company’s California headquarters that he believed setting a maximum amount of time that young users could spend on the
White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles has announced she is free of cancer, exactly six months after she announced her diagnosis. In a post on X, Wiles said her pathology tests “came back clear” after a visit to the Mayo Clinic earlier this week. Wiles, 69, is considered among the most powerful figures in
When he was confirmed, Democratic lawmakers had said Warsh would be Trump’s “sock puppet” and many Fed watchers expected him to carry out Trump’s persistent demands to slash rates. Trump had been heavily critical of Warsh’s predecessor Jerome Powell for not cutting them. Asked on Wednesday about the message the rate hike sent to Trump,
The BBC’s US partner CBS obtained photos showing widespread damage to multiple US military sites in the Middle East as a result of Iranian strikes. The photos came from an unnamed member of the military, who said: “This is major damage to our bases that hasn’t been communicated to the American public”. They images show
