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When Maria Ressa jointly won the Nobel peace prize in 2021 with Russian editor Dmitry Muratov, they were the first journalists to be recognised in this way since 1936. Back then, the German reporter Carl von Ossietzky couldn’t accept because he was in a Nazi concentration camp. “The Norwegian Nobel committee got the right sense,” Ressa tells me, over Zoom from her office in Manila. “They gave the awards to journalists last year and this year to civil society.” The 2022 prize went to human rights advocates from Ukraine,…

Sir Cliff Richard will mark 65 years in music next year with his ‘The Blue Sapphire Tour’. The tour will see him performing four nights at London’s Eventim Apollo, alongside dates in Blackpool and Glasgow. In 65 years, Sir Cliff has become a British Icon and national treasure. He’s enjoyed successful films, musicals, television shows and most notably his music career. He’s amassed several gold and platinum records, sold over 250 million records worldwide, had 14 number-one singles, a colossal 96 Top 20 hits, 7…

Image via Universal Pictures It’s true when they say that nothing lasts forever, but that statement becomes even more depressing when you realize that most things don’t even last for a fraction of forever. That being said, there’s rarely anything wrong with quitting while you’re ahead, lest that which doesn’t last forever is remembered far less fondly than how it could have been. Indeed, in the world of cinema, we’ve seen many a beloved director fade into the darker pages of history after muddling their strong…

If you are already dreading the sound of festive staples playing on a loop during outings to the high street, then your misery may soon be compounded.In a return to the musical frontline, 81-year-old Sir Cliff Richard has announced he is to release his first dedicated Christmas album in nearly two decades.The record, Christmas With Cliff, will bring together an “album of classics” including It’s The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Joy to the World, Jingle Bell Rock and more.New tracks will include First Christmas, Six…

One of the great pioneers of reggae, Jimmy Cliff was born in Jamaica in 1944 as James Chambers, and started writing songs while in primary school. He moved to Kingston as a teenager to pursue music and had his first hit at 14 with Hurricane Hattie. After stints in New York and London he returned to Jamaica and played the lead role in the 1972 film The Harder They Come, whose soundtrack (featuring four of Cliff’s songs) helped popularise reggae around the world. The film has just been rereleased for its 50th anniversary,…

Flint, Michigan rapper Cliff Mac, real name Clifton E. Terry III, has been charged for allegedly paying a man $10,000 to kill a woman.As revealed in a statement from the Eastern District of Michigan Attorney’s Office, a federal grand jury issued an indictment charging the 31-year-old with murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury, conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire resulting in personal injury, and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.25-year-old Andre D. Sims, who is the alleged hitman, was…

Secretary of the Department of Transportation Pete Buttigieg delivers remarks on new transportation initiatives at an event with U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in the South Court Auditorium at Eisenhower Executive Office Building on March 07, 2022 in Washington, DC.Anna Moneymaker | Getty ImagesThe Department of Transportation said on Friday that Steven Cliff, the head of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, plans to leave the agency in September after three months in the top job.Ann Carlson, the chief…

Ocean view at Devil's Slide Trail. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The first study to analyze California's coastal cliff retreat statewide using high-resolution data has found that cliffs receded faster in the north than elsewhere in the state during the study period. …

Perry Henzell’s visceral 1972 Jamaican crime drama exists between the two moods of its two most famous tracks: the aspirational lesson of You Can Get It If You Really Want and the disillusioned downfall-premonition of the title song. The desperado here really wants it, really gets it, comes hard and falls hard. It’s a movie with Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde in its DNA, as well as Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western Django, which in one scene is shown getting a rowdy screening at a Kingston cinema.Singer Jimmy Cliff…

Prices for both Nvidia and AMD graphics cards are continuing to drop, with a new report highlighting how they’ve now fallen well below the manufacturer’s suggested retail prices (MSRP). It’s an ironic situation indeed. Before 2022, prices were going in the complete opposite direction — GPUs were nearly impossible to purchase at MSRP. However, due to the build-up of stock sitting on store shelves alongside the recent crypto crash, boards are finally becoming both available and, more importantly, affordable. Jacob…