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Can you believe it has been one year since Eurovision ? The feel-good singing competition is back for its 65th year, with the highly-anticipated final taking place on Saturday, May 15, in Turin, Italy. In total, 20 countries from across Europe will be competing for the Eurovision crown and fans can expect to see a whole load of performances ranging from stunning to wacky , sure-to-be viral dance routines, and lots of high camp and glamour. While the United States is not a participant in Eurovision , that doesn't mean that U.S. audiences have to skip viewing the competition. Newsweek has everything you need to know about how to watch Eurovision , so you don't miss a thing. How to Watch the Eurovision Song Contest From the U.S. Have no fear Eurovision fans, the entire song contest final is available to stream live and on-demand via Peacock 's premium plan. If you missed any of the Semi-FInal rounds, the episodes are also available to stream on the platform … [Read more...] about How to watch the “Eurovision Song Contest” from the U.S and around the world.

Editor’s note: This article has been translated from the original Russian by Boris Dralyuk. It was written by Maxim Osipov as he made his journey into exile from his town of Tarusa to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia, where Russians are allowed to enter without visas, and finally to Berlin. Cold , ashamed , relieved . These three words close Defying Hitler , Sebastian Haffner’s memoir about the rise of fascism, written before the Second World War and published posthumously. It was a book that held us rapt last year. In it we sought and found coincidences with our own recent situation. And now many of us who have gone elsewhere—to Yerevan, Tbilisi, Baku, Nur-Sultan, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Samarkand—have also gotten to experience firsthand, on our own skin, those three words: frostig, beschämt, befreit . We are those who left (escaped, fled) Russia shortly after it invaded Ukraine. We hate war, hate the one who unleashed it, but we also weren’t planning to abandon our … [Read more...] about We Left Russia, Maybe Forever

A 1991 BBC radio documentary about the haematologist John Wilkinson, entitled 33 Lines in "Who's Who", revealed some amazing claims to fame: during the Second World War he trained sea-lions to defuse bombs; he had devised the zip fly; and he once had to de-louse the entire Sadler's Wells corps de ballet. The programme caused some surprise to friends and colleagues who had known him for years, as he had kept these and his other achievements relatively quiet. Wilkinson was born in Oldham, Lancashire, in 1897. His mother died when he was two, so he and his brother Ted moved to Blackpool to live with his father's two sisters and his grandfather. To say the least, this move was fortuitous. Having spent a winter's day fishing at Garstang in 1908, John and his friends called at the local newsagents, where the owner, Frank Raynor, showed John a copy of the first of the six fortnightly parts of Scouting for Boys that had just been published. Written by the national hero Robert … [Read more...] about Obituary: Dr John Wilkinson

Three people died and two were still missing after a tugboat sank off the southern Italian coast while pulling a pontoon on a route between Italy and Albania, the coastguard said on Thursday. The Franco P tugboat sent an alarm signal on Wednesday evening, while sailing some 50 nautical miles (92.6 km) off the city of Bari, an Italian coastguard statement said. The coastguard initially said four bodies had been recovered and another had been spotted at sea. However, in a statement issued later in the afternoon, it said three bodies were being transported ashore while two were still missing. ”The search continues for two more bodies whose discovery was initially reported by units in the area but did not prove to be true,” it said. The tug’s captain was saved by a Croatian vessel during rescue operations overnight, which took place in very rough seas, the statement said. Read all the Latest News , Breaking News and IPL 2022 Live Updates here. … [Read more...] about Three Die, Two Missing After Tugboat Sinks off Southern Italy