| Filipino police on hijack charges The Philippine president orders four police officials to face charges over a bus hijacking in August that left eight Hong Kong tourists dead. bbc.co.uk |
Fuel supply to Paris airports cut Fuel supplies to Paris' main airports through a major pipeline are cut off, as protests over pension reforms lead to fears of petrol shortages. bbc.co.uk |
Fifa's Blatter vows to root out 'devils' Fifa president Sepp Blatter has said that world football's governing body will restore credibility after provisionally suspending two officials over allegations of corruption. bbc.co.uk |
Letter: Jill Johnston obituary Ramsay Burt writes: Jill Johnston (obituary, 12 October) supported the development of radical innovative dance in New York in the 1960s. She started off as an art critic; the choreographer Jimmy Waring first suggested that she should write about dance, she told me when I interviewed her in 2000. Her book Marmalade Me (1971), a collection of her Village Voice reviews, remains the best source of information on this period.She began nevertheless to undermine the powerful position she found herself in as a critic, first by presenting her own wild dances alongside those of the people she was writing about, and then by turning her column into a chronicle of her increasingly unstable private life. She even sent in her column during her temporary stays in a psychiatric ward at Bellevue hospital.One of Johnston's dance performances, she told me, had been filmed by Andy Warhol. At the time he was shooting his two-and-a-half minute "screen tests" in which he often left his subject alone in front of a rolling camera. Johnston only agreed to do one if she didn't have to keep still, and Warhol ended up filming her dancing in the Factory's tinfoil-decorated toilet.FeminismWomenAndy WarholGay rightsguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds guardian.co.uk |
China's Winter Game Ambitions Heat Up As the Vancouver Winter Olympics draws to a close, China's sports machine is quietly putting on a clinic in how to climb the medals standings. online.wsj.com |