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Garage rocker Jay Reatard dies, aged 29 | Pop and rock

Memphis garage-rocker Jimmy Lee Lindsey Jr, aka Jay Reatard, has died. The 29-year-old was found at his home early on Tuesday morning, according to friends. Police have reportedly opened an investigation into his death, which comes less than six months after the release of his breakthrough LP, Watch Me Fall.

Good Omens is so enjoyable it seems bad form to spot the flaws | Terry Pratchett

Reading Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchetts novel is such a tonic for our times, it feels wrong to quarrel with creaks in its writing and plotting Theres probably never a bad time to read Good Omens, but its hard to imagine a better one than right now. It isnt easy being a citizen of the

Mike Tyson's four-year-old daughter dies after accident while playing | Mike Tyson

The four-year-old daughter of former boxer Mike Tyson died this morning, after an accident in which she became tangled in a cord as she played on a treadmill at her home. Exodus Tyson was pronounced dead in a hospital in Phoenix in Arizona just before noon, police spokesman Andy Hill said, a day after her

Nike to axe hundreds of jobs in bid to save $2bn amid sales slump | Nike

US sportswear brand announces job cuts and simplification of product ranges in streamlining of operations Nike is to cut hundreds of jobs, simplify its product ranges and increase its use of automation as part of attempts to save $2bn (1.6bn) in costs over the next three years amid poor sales.

Petr Pavlensky: why I nailed my scrotum to Red Square

On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square. He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin, and began to undress.