Image by Wesley Tingey. “I’ve been sick damn near two weeks. I’ve got a bad cold. I probably have pneumonia, man,” says “Jordan” when I interview him again in late February. The heat and hot water have not been working, and many prisoners are sick. “This place is so cold, man, ain’t no heat down…
Security at Melbourne Cricket Ground will be ramped up after two men were charged over smuggling handguns and bullets into a crowd of over 82,000 Australian Rules fans, police said Friday. Victoria police said they arrested the duo, both in their 20s, after they refused to leave the stadium during Collingwood’s defeat of Carlton on…
A teenage boy has d!ed while another is critically injured following a violent altercation over a lady during Eid-el-Fitr celebrations in Tasha Dinya Village, Fufore Local Government Area of Adamawa State. Intelligence sources told security analyst, Zagazola Makama that the incident, which occurred around 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday April 2, 2025, involved 18-year-old Idrisu…
Image by Kit. This essay is for Mohara Gill, because she gave me the idea. Some years ago, critics worried that the novel was dying. The first novel, Tale of the Genji, was written by a Japanese woman Murasaki Shikibu in the early 11th century. And so it would be surprising to discover that such…
What an unhappy country this is, ranking a dismal 55th in this year’s World Happiness Report. Why should it be so? Japan is democratic and at peace, its… © Japan Today
