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- A new start after 60: I became a wrestler, 50 years after falling in love with the sport
After a career in accountancy, Sally Goldner decided to get in the ring – as Zali Gold – and live out her childhood dreamsOn the night of her 60th birthday, Sally Goldner climbed on to the top rope of the wrestling ring, to the roars of the crowd, and launched herself on to her competitors with a missile dropkick. The crowd roared. For a second, she was completely airborne, before landing on her opponents.“‘Wow, I’m doing this,’” she thought. “Exhilarating. I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather be doing on my birthday.” She had seized her moment in an Alpha Pro battle royal, a multi-competitor elimination match. As her opponents – all men – threw her out of the ring, they wished her a happy birthday. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.11 mins ago - ‘The music could not stop for three days’: how Sirāt went on a road trip to the dark heart of r...Club culture is notoriously hard to capture on film. Oscar-tipped director Oliver Laxe explains why he had to organise his own music festival in the Moroccan desert to find deeper meaning in dance-floor ecstasyIn the opening scene of Oliver Laxe’s existential mystery thriller Sirāt, a crowd of partygoers stack up a sound system for a rave in the southern Moroccan desert, where the paths of the film’s protagonists cross for the first time. Crucially, Laxe explains, the revellers were no ordinary extras. Most of them were committed, lifelong ravers who had travelled to the makeshift festival from across Europe. One of the DJs who played, Sebastian Vaughan AKA 69db, was a core member of Spiral Tribe, the pioneering British “free party” collective of the 1990s.“In film, reality is usually made to adapt to the rules of cinema,” the French-born Spanish director tells me when we meet in Berlin. “But we… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.11 mins ago
- Logitech MX Master 4 review: the best work mouse you can buyErgonomic shape, quality materials and satisfying clicks, now with novel haptic feedback and repairable designLogitech’s latest productivity power-house updates one of the greatest mice of all time with smoother materials, a repair-friendly design and a haptic motor for phone-like vibrations on your desktop.The MX Master 4 is the latest evolution in a line of pioneering mice that dates back more than 20 years and has long been the mouse to beat for everything but hardcore PC gaming. Having given it a magnetic free-spinning scroll wheel, plenty of buttons and precise tracking, now Logitech is trying something different for its seven-generation: the ability to tap back at you. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.11 mins ago
- Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy says Russian energy sites are legitimate targetsUkrainian president says the power infrastructure generates money for Moscow so is akin to a military target. What we know on day 1,447Russian energy infrastructure is a legitimate target for Ukrainian strikes because the energy sector is a source of funds for the production of weapons, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said. “We do not have to choose – whether we strike a military target or energy … it’s the same thing,” the Ukrainian president said on X on Sunday. “We either build weapons and strike their weapons. Or we strike the source where their money is generated and multiplied. And that source is their energy sector … All of this is a legitimate target for us.” Russia has targeted Ukraine’s energy grid in a campaign of attacks that has been called Moscow’s weaponisation of winter.Russian strikes on Odesa and Kharkiv overnight killed at least three people, Ukrainian officials said on Monday.… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.15 mins ago
- Venezuela’s Machado says close ally kidnapped by ‘heavily armed’ men hours after prison releas...Juan Pablo Guanipa was ‘violently’ taken from a residential neighbourhood in Caracas, according to opposition leader María Corina MachadoVenezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado said on Monday one of her closest allies was kidnapped hours after being released from prison.The government had released several prominent opposition members from prison on Sunday after lengthy politically motivated detentions. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.36 mins ago
- Iran arrests leading reformists close to the country’s presidentDetentions of senior Reformists Front figures follow criticism of the authorities’ handling of recent protestsThe head of Iran’s Reformists Front, the organisation that was instrumental in securing the election of the country’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has been arrested by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps in a move that will probably deepen the tensions over the handling of the recent street protests.Azar Mansouri, the secretary general of the Islamic Iran People party, had expressed deep sorrow at protesters’ deaths, and said nothing could justify such a catastrophe. She had not in public called for the supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, to resign. Continue reading... ...[TheTopNews] Read More.1 hour ago
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