Some teachers have expressed concerns about having to enforce the ban. The Green Party’s Sigi Maurer accused Education Minister Christoph Wiederkehr, from the liberal NEOS, of “creating new conflicts and offloading them onto the teachers”. She said teachers were “already under enormous strain” and that Wiederkehr wanted to “foist the role of police officers onto
Korean sales house Finecut has closed a string of international deals for three festival titles, including Hong Sangsoo‘s Locarno prizewinner “Nowhere to Lay My Eyes,” ahead of the Toronto Film Festival. The film marks Hong’s 35th feature. It competed in the Concorso Internazionale at the 79th Locarno Film Festival and picked up three awards: the
If your mattress has seen better days, Labor Day is a pretty good excuse to finally replace it. Brands are rolling out some of their biggest discounts on memory foam, hybrid, and cooling mattresses, with plenty of promos that can take a serious chunk off the usual price. I’ve rounded up the best Labor Day
Indonesia is in the throes of a wildfire catastrophe. Amid a so-called “Super El Niño” that has supercharged local drought conditions, thousands of active fire hotspots are spreading and multiplying across the country, fuelling a transnational haze crisis that is the region’s worst in more than a decade. But what makes Borneo’s fires particularly worrying
Andy “The Butcher” Williams, a professional wrestler who played guitar with the bands Every Time I Die and Atomic Rule, died Saturday night after collapsing at the end of his match in Millvale, Pennsylvania. He was 48. Williams was rushed to the hospital but did not survive. The rest of the match was called off
The far-right Alternative for Germany was projected to win a strong victory in a regional election Sunday, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether it would be able to fulfill its ambition of forming the country’s first far-right state government since World War II. The party of German’s unpopular leader, Chancellor Friedrich Merz, was set for a
