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“The notion that you can make an artist overnight, that there is nothing but genius, and a dash of temperament in artistic success is a fallacy,” artist Georgia O’Keeffe asserted when she was 40 years old in 1928. The year before, she’d been given her first retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum—an indisputable marker of success. But O’Keeffe, who would live ...

Spanish Youtuber Sonia Sae, who uses her channel to share advice on how to live on a plant-based diet, has come under fire for putting her pet fennec fox on a vegan diet after photos of the shockingly thin animal were shared online. Animal activists and some of Sonia Sae’s own followers have accused her of animal cruelty after the ...

“Just a bit further, round the next bend,” my guide Jim said, as our fishing boat pitched and rolled in the choppy waters of the North Sea. It was hardly reassuring. But as we lurched from side to side, I reminded myself that the purpose of our trip was worth it. We were re-tracing a 230-year-old voyage that forever changed ...

MANCHESTER UNITED boss Jose Mourinho has provided fitness updates on Paul Pogba and Anthony Martial ahead of the Red Devils’ Champions League clash against Sevilla. Manchester United face Sevilla tomorrow night aiming to make the quarter-finals of the Champions League for the first time since 2014. The Red Devils go into the game knowing they must score, with the first ...

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has been fined £20,000 for wearing a yellow ribbon on the touchline during the FA Cup defeat at Wigan. On Monday, the Spaniard accepted the Football Association charge for “wearing a political message”, a breach of kit and advertising regulations. In November, Guardiola said he wore the ribbon to support imprisoned politicians in his native Catalonia. He ...

JAMIE CARRAGHER has been axed from a TV punditry gig as a result of his spit shame. The Liverpool legend was due to assess Manchester United’s Champions League clash against Sevilla on Tuesday for TV3 Sport. But bosses at the Danish channel have pulled Carragher from their line-up after he was filmed appearing to spit at a United fan and ...

A Ugandan MP has left people horrified after saying men need to “discipline” and “beat” their wives. Twinamasiko Onesimus, who represents Bugangaizi East constituency was speaking to Ugandan television channel NTV when he made the shocking statement. “As a man, you need to discipline your wife,” he told the channel. “You need to touch her a bit, you tackle her, ...

US President Donald Trump is to meet video games company representatives on Thursday to discuss violent content. The meeting comes in the wake of last month’s shooting at a school in Florida in which 17 people died. The president has in the past expressed the view that violent games were “shaping young people’s thoughts”. But the games industry has defended ...

Kenyan president on the occasion of 2018 International Women’s Day celebrations, disclosed a ‘summary’ of how he met Margaret Kenyatta, the First Lady. According to Uhuru, it involved a day out swimming, his father was involved and heeding the old man’s advice was also crucial. He also stressed the importance of women in building a strong nation. His tweet read: ...

A soldier has been killed by suspected separatists in Cameroon, the local French portal Journal du Cameroon, has reported. The report said the incident occured around 19-20h local time, when a curfew was deemed to be in force. The report said one Private Abdalah was killed on Wednesday during an attack on an outpost he was guarding in the town ...