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While you were sleeping: 29 January 2018
Grammy Awards sees Kendrick Lamar dominate, Kabul attackers besiege academy, and Tiger Woods returns with a vengeance.
Monday, 29 January 2018
“Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them.”
Jules Verne
The purge must happen. But to whom must it happen? What must happen to those it happens to? (Drawing and quartering? Internet shaming? Life in jail?) And what happens if it doesn’t go all the way to the top?
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
Kendrick Lamar leads the Grammys
Kendrick Lamar has scooped up five Grammy awards this year. The glitzy music industry event was hosted in New York this year, the first time in 15 years it has not been in Los Angeles. The late Carrie Fisher won a Grammy as well for her spoken word album The Princess Diarist. The entire affair also saw another theme of protest against abuse, this time with white roses adorning the gowns and suits, coupled with the hashtag #TIMESUP. Oh, and South African band Ladysmith Black Mambazo won the Grammy for Best World Album.
Attackers besiege Kabul academy
A military academy in Afghanistan’s capital has been targeted by militants. A pre-dawn assault on the academy was still ongoing in the early hours of this morning, with Afghan security forces closing off roads nearby. An attack days earlier had killed at least 100 people, with the Taliban or Islamic State believed to be responsible.
Furore over Strava security snafu
A security analyst has discovered the locations of several military bases in Niger using the tracking data of Strava-linked devices. Soldiers unwittingly revealed their positions and the perimeter of their facilities with the path of their morning jogs. More worryingly, the app data also revealed movements outside the base, as soldiers forgot to turn off their devices, thereby showing routes of regular movement. Someone in uniform is about to get the bollocking of his or her life.
Woods ‘pleased’ with tour performance
Tiger Woods has managed 23rd place at the Farmers Insurance Open. Woods said that he was pleased with the performance, the toughest yet for his surgically fused spine. Considering Woods’ absence from the PGA Tour for years, his ability to return and manage 23rd place without much trouble is a positive signal for his 2018 career.
IN NUMBERS
5
The number of countries where the suicide rate for women is higher than for men. They are China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Iraq and Indonesia.
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Today in 1956 Elvis Presley appears on television for the first time.
A finger with nerve damage doesn’t wrinkle underwater.
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