NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as “The White Album” and “The Year of Magical Thinking” made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87.
Didion’s publisher Penguin Random House announced the author’s death on Thursday. She died from complications from Parkinson’s disease, the company said.
“Didion was one of the country’s most trenchant writers and astute observers. Read More...
Perth artist Felicity Palmateer is set to battle it out on the new season of Survivor: Brains v Brawn.
The 28-year-old is the latest star to be introduced on the upcoming series, with her admitting the casting is a chance of a lifetime.
‘I’ve never thought about doing any sort of reality TV,’ she told AAA ahead of the show’s launch on July 18.
Meet Survivor’s nude surfer: Perth artist Felicity Palmateer, 28, (pictured) is set to battle it out on Brains v Brawn when it premieres later this week Read More...
Somalia, a large (about the size of Texas) but desperately poor country in the Horn of Africa, was strange terrain for proxy wars between friends and enemies of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. In 1969, Maj. Gen. Mohamed Siad Barre seized control, instituted a nominally "socialist" regime, and established friendly relations with Moscow. After an unsuccessful Somali invasion into Ethiopia's Ogaden region in 1977, the Soviet Union sided with arch-enemy Ethiopia. Read More...
