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bear’s enclosure at a zoo. Frightening footage has emerged of the incident which visitors looking on in horror as the predator ran towards the child.

Frida Kahlo sofa cushions; a bedspread from when I took the train along the Silk Road to Uzbekistan; photographs from features I worked on, blown up by photographer friends; my pink record player. I unwrap them excitedly, like a second Christmas, spreading them around the house, displaying pieces of myself.When it’s all unpacked, I’m surprised both by how much c--p I’ve got and how little furniture.

A mum has been arrested after a tot was hurled 16ft into a brown bear's cage at a zoo.

bear enclosure at the zoo, as horrified witnesses helplessly tried to stop her.The incident took place at a zoo in the Uzbekistani capital of Tashkent, with the bear, Zuzu, getting up close to the little girl and sniffing her, before wandering away.That’s when the zoo staff managed to lead the giant animal to a separate part of the enclosure and swooped in to rescue the distressed child. A spokesperson for the zoo said: “A young woman threw a little girl down into a brown bear’s enclosure, in front of all the visitors.

New Celtic signings Daizen Maeda and Reo Hatate are free to debut against Hibs after being removed from Japan's Kirin Cup squad.

The technical director of the Japanese FA has made a plea to the government to allow Kyogo Furuhashi to join up with the squad for next month's qualifiers.

Jessica Kiang It can take a moment to adjust to the quiet, grave rhythms of the impossibly gorgeous “2000 Songs of Farida,” where the imagemaking is so resplendent as to be disorienting, given how accustomed we are to a cinema in which the pictures primarily serve the storytelling.

A leading figure in Japanese football has dropped a massive hint that Reo Hatate and Daizen Maeda will transfer to Celtic in January.

Kabul is in blackout after the Taliban failed to pay for gas and electricity, local reports have said.Afghanistan imports all its electricity from neighbouring countries Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan, the Sputnik news agency reported.Yet only one-third of the central Asian country is able to access electricity, according to state energy agency DABS.Local reports suggested the Taliban took over the debt-ridden state energy group as soon as they arrived in Kabul this summer.Yet they appear to have ignored the cash owed to suppliers in the neighbouring countries, leading Uzbek suppliers to shut the power off to vast swathes of the country.The state energy agency wrote simply: "The technical staff is working to resolve this issue as

Labour has called on the Tories to return cash from a major party donor after a massive leak documents exposed the secret financial dealings of some of the world’s richest and most powerful people.

Filip Helander has been training separately from the squad due to a mystery injury. The centre-back played a crucial role in Sweden's historic World Cup qualifier win over Spain to end the former Luis Enrique’s men 66-game undefeated qualifying streak.

Dominic Raab, the Foreign Secretary, in front of MPs today where he will come under strong criticism for leaving behind both British nationals and Afghans who helped the UK.

Good Morning Britain didn't get off to the best start on Monday as a technical issue halted an interview with Team GB silver medalist Bradly Sinden.Ben Shephard and Susanna Reid kicked off the ITV breakfast show by introducing the olympian, who appeared via a video link from Tokyo.Bradly couldn't hear Ben and Susanna right from the beginning and was forced to end the interview before asking the first question.The presenting duo informed viewers that they'll try their best to resolve the technical issues and they'll hopefully speak to the sports star before the end of the latest programme.Team GB's Bradly Sinden settled for silver medal on his Olympic debut in men's -68kg taekwondo after losing out in final against Uzbekistan's Ulugbek

Taekwondo world No1 Bradly Sinden wiped away a tear and thanked his mum while kicking himself for missing out on making Olympic history.

Team GB have their first medal of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after Chelsie Giles won bronze in the 52k judo category.

Duncan Bannatyne loves his unique fashion sense - but he doesn't care if other people don't.

holiday - to Uzbekistan with wife Nigora. Duncan, 72, who now lives permanently in Portugal after he "repatriated" there with Nigora, 41, following the UK lockdown, decided it was time to travel and visit his wife's family in Uzbekistan.

Craig Murray watched two days of Alex Salmond's trial in March 2020 from the public gallery of Edinburgh’s High Court and wrote about it on his website.

Manchester United legend Wayne Rooney has enjoyed his most successful day in management with Derby. The Red Devils’ all-time top scorer saw his Rams secure a 3-3 draw against Sheffield Wednesday, enough to see them survive in the Championship.

jail a former diplomat who was found to be in contempt of court after covering the Alex Salmond trial on his blog.Craig Murray, a former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, attended two days of Mr Salmond's trial in March 2020, sitting in the public gallery, and wrote about it on his website.The former first minister was cleared at the High Court in Edinburgh of 13 sexual assault charges involving nine women following his trial.Following previous hearings, judges on March 25 this year found that Murray, 62, was in contempt of court, relating to material capable of identifying four complainers.At a virtual hearing of the High Court in Edinburgh on Friday, Roddy Dunlop QC, representing Murray, said there is little indication of any actual

Jennie Punter “The Story Won’t Die” director David Henry Gerson wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for the United States welcoming refugees—specifically, his Uzbekistan-born father, the son of Holocaust survivors—after World War II.Exploring the ways people process traumas of the past is in his filmmaker DNA, he admits.“When I heard that the crisis in Syria was the largest displacement of people on the planet since World War II, something told me I had to pay attention to this,” said Gerson during an extended post-screening panel, screened exclusively for Variety in advance of his film’s world premiere at the 2021 Hot Docs festival.“The Story Won’t Die” intertwines the stories of nine Syrian artists active during their country’s uprising in