Outburst

The actor Alain Delon will file a legal complaint against his son over “a media outburst” in France’s most prominent magazine, his lawyer has said.In an interview published on Thursday, Anthony Delon told Paris Match that his father was finding it hard to accept his frail state of health, adding that there were “major risks” that the 88-year-old had celebrated “his last Christmas”.“He doesn’t speak much, it tires him or it annoys him when we make him repeat, because his voice is no longer always clear, or audible,”…

Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, has issued a statement in Hebrew on his Instagram expressing regret over his antisemitic comments over the past year. That includes recent statements allegedly made in Las Vegas earlier this month, and caught by live streamers in attendance, invoking Hitler and Jesus Christ alongside himself, and addressing his loss of brand sponsorships and partnerships during a Vultures album event, as reported by Rolling Stone. Set to release on Jan. 12, the…

Elon Musk's verbal assault on advertisers who have shunned X (formerly Twitter) threatens to sink the social network further, with the tycoon warning of the platform's demise, just one year after taking control."If somebody's gonna try to blackmail me with advertising, go fuck yourself," a visibly furious Musk told an interviewer in New York in front of an audience of the US business elite this week. Musk was lashing out at the advertisers who had abandoned his platform after Media Matters, a left-wing media watchdog…

The 1975 frontman Matty Healy’s recent appearance at a festival in Kuala Lumpur – where he criticised Malaysia’s homophobic laws and kissed a male bandmate on stage – has strongly angered conservatives in the country.Members of the LGBTQ+ community have also expressed unease over his actions, fearing that the episode risks further exacerbating the hostilities they face.“He gets to fly out of the country and not face the consequences, while our people have to face the brunt of what just happened,” said the drag performer…

The eta Aquariid meteor shower, active throughout April and May, is set to peak on May 5 with an impressive outburst year, featuring 120-160 meteors per hour. Despite the full moon’s brightness, the shower’s fireballs, caused by Earth encountering debris from Comet Halley, make it worth watching. Credit: AMS Elizabeth WarnerThe eta Aquariid meteor shower, peaking on the morning of May 5, promises an outburst year with up to 160 meteors per hour. Despite the full moon, bright fireballs make it worth watching, especially in…

Trends of ice-dammed GLOF discharges between 1900 and 2021. Posterior trends from Bayesian quantile regression of reported V0 (orange) and Qp (blue) with time. Dark and light colors are trends for the median and 90th percentile (that is, 10% largest), respectively, for 1900–2021; gray densities are trends for 1990–2021. Black lines are 95% HDIs and circles are medians of the posterior distributions. Trends refer to log10-transformed values of V0 and Qp,…

The most powerful volcanic eruptions in the Solar System occur not on Earth, but on Io, a sulfurous moon orbiting the planet Jupiter.And now, researchers from the Planetary Science Institute (PSI) in the US have noticed a recent outburst that's been surprisingly productive, even for a hellish world like Io.In the space around Jupiter, a torus of plasma created and fed by Io's volcanic emissions grew significantly richer between July and September of last year and persisted until December, showing the moon underwent a…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeWill Smith has spoken out about his controversial Oscars moment and has attributed his actions to long-repressed rage. The actor slapped Chris Rock during this year’s Academy Awards ceremony after Rock made a controversial joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith’s shaved head. Since then, the shocking moment has been one of the year’s biggest talking points, while Smith’s position in…

Artist’s rendition of a cataclysmic variable in which a white dwarf (white/blue) is accreting material from its nearby Sun-like companion (yellow). The material forms a disk around the white dwarf until an instability causes an explosion and a bright outburst of light, known as a nova. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/L. ProudfitAstronomers discovered something unique using <span class="glossaryLink" aria-describedby="tt" data-cmtooltip="<div class=glossaryItemTitle>SOFIA</div><div…

KTLA news anchor Mark Mester was fired Thursday afternoon, days after he was suspended following an off-script segment about his co-anchor Lynette Romero’s abrupt departure, according to several employees at the station. The newsroom’s general manager, Janene Drafs, announced the firing with a brief speech during a meeting in the newsroom around 1:15 p.m., saying, " is no longer at KTLA5,” staffers who were present for the announcement told The Times Thursday.The KTLA website no longer lists Mester on its roster of…