MMA This article is more than 1 year oldRising MMA star Victoria ‘The Prodigy’ Lee dies at age of 18This article is more than 1 year oldFamily confirms teenager died on 26 December Fighter was sister of ONE champions Angela and Christian LeeVictoria Lee, one of the world’s most promising young mixed martial artists, has died at the age of 18, her family have confirmed.
“She has gone too soon and our family has been completely devastated since then,” wrote her sister, Angela, in an Instagram post on Saturday. Read More...
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Édouard Manet – Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (1863)This great painting introduces a theme the impressionists would love – the bourgeois picnic – but with a tough irony all its own. Read More...
AfricaObituaryAli Mazrui obituaryKenyan political thinker who was unafraid to confront contentious issuesThe Kenyan political thinker Ali Mazrui, who has died aged 81, was best known in the west for writing and presenting a groundbreaking television series, The Africans: A Triple Heritage (1986). In the nine-part documentary, co-produced by the BBC and the US Public Broadcasting Service in association with the Nigerian Television Authority, Mazrui set out to explore wide-ranging aspects of African culture and society “from the inside”. Read More...
