magiadoreal

At least 100 Palestinians killed as TV and radio outlets, mosque and refugee camp all targeted as calls for ceasefire dismissed A Palestinian firefighter tries to put out a fire at Gaza's main power plant, which witnesses say was hit by Israeli shelling. Photograph: Mohammed Salem/Reuters Flames and clouds of black smoke billowed over Gaza 's only power plant on Tuesday after it was destroyed during the most relentless and widespread Israeli bombardment of the current conflict. At least 100 people were killed, according to Gaza health officials. "The power plant is finished," said its director, Mohammed al-Sharif, signalling a new crisis for Gaza's 1.8 million people, who were already enduring power cuts of more than 20 hours a day. Amnest

Age: 80 when he died. Appearance: Flaccid. Possibly. Allegedly. Oh, I know this guy! He's the one who didn't know women had pubic hair! What? That is literally all I know. It's all anyone knows. He was an amazing man. An art critic, patron of many members of the pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, social philosopher, prescient proselytiser for environmental concerns, writer, philanthropist ... Wow! All that and he still didn't know anything about lady gardens. I can see we are going to have to deal with this issue. After all, the forthcoming film of his life, written by and starring Emma Thompson, seems to be placing it front and centre. An unfortunate phrase, but continue. Art historians who have seen previews of the film, Effie Gray – Is that the woman whose hoo-ha caused all the hoo-ha? She was his wife for five unconsummated years, yes, before leaving him for his protege John Millais. Woah! Five years? Because she had pubic hair? Will you just listen? Art histori

It was an epic contest and, when it was all done, the final explosion of joy and bedlam told us Brazil had made it to the quarter-finals and the World Cup would not have to go on without its hosts. Chile had given everything but, ultimately, it all came back to that moment, at 2-2 in the penalty shootout, with one player left on each team. Neymar, superstar, kissed the ball, shuffled his feet and put his shot in the corner. Gonzalo Jara hit the post and Brazil, finally, could breathe. They had made it difficult for themselves after taking the lead courtesy of Jara’s own goal, which was credited to David Luiz, in the first half and the referee, Howard Webb, might have needed a wig to leave the country if Chile had been more accurate from 12 yards. Webb, from a poor vantage point , denied Brazil an early penalty when Hulk went down under Mauricio Isla’s challenge and, more controversially, disallowed a second-half goal from the same player. It was not a controversy tha

Fifa is investigating a remarkable bust-up at the World Cup after claims Chile striker Mauricio Pinilla was punched by Brazil’s communications director Rodrigo Paiva at half-time during Saturday’s match . Paiva, a well-known figure in Brazilian football , has admitted to shoving Pinilla but said that he only did so in self-defence. A Fifa spokeswoman told a news conference in Rio de Janeiro: “We can confirm there has been an incident and the disciplinary committee is currently analysing the matter.” The disciplinary panel is believed to have access to video footage and pictures of the incident in Belo Horizonte. A scuffle broke out as the teams headed to the dressing rooms in the Mineirao Stadium, sparked by Brazil striker Fred slapping Chile defender Gary Medel on the back of the head as they walked off the pitch. Brazil media said Paiva and the Chile assistant manager Sebastián Beccacece were involved in a confrontation which ended in the Brazil offi

 Gunmen broke into Benghazi home on day of general election, killing lawyer, wounding security guard and abducting husband Many Libyans are in shock following the murder of one of Libya 's most prominent human rights activists, killed at her home on the day of country's general election. Salwa Bugaighis was stabbed and shot through the head by gunmen who broke into her house in the eastern city of Benghazi, wounding a security guard and abducting her husband, Essam al-Ghariani, who remains missing. The couple had just returned from voting in Wednesday's election, the attack reminding Libyans of the growing power of extremists in a country wracked by violence. Earlier in the day, she had been speaking by phone from her home on a Libyan TV channel about fighting that was raging near her neighbourhood, sparked when militants attacked army troops that had been deployed polling station. "These are people who want to foil elections," she t

It's the most all-American of film genres, filled with he-men and black hats. But the western has given us some great movies: the Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best 10. Rancho Notorious Like Alfred Hitchcock, Fritz Lang moved effortlessly between genres; his "western period" scattered throughout his "urban crime" and "film noir" periods. Even now, 60 years on, Rancho Notorious remains one of the strangest westerns ever made, furthering Lang's fascination (obsession?) with retribution, which arguably started with the 1936 lynch-mob drama Fury, his first film as a German émigré in the US. Perversely, although the protagonist is the wronged Vern (Arthur Kennedy), whose fiancee has been raped and killed by bandits unknown, Lang's film - which, as we are constantly reminded by its theme song, tells a tale of "hate, murder and revenge" - is more concerned with the own

A D-day anniversary: emotional swansong for UK veterans of Normandy UK veterans group will never again walk in their hundreds through the white rows of headstones of Bayeux war cemetery Many leaned heavily on sticks. Others were helped by younger service personnel providing an obliging arm to lean on. But many more walked unaided behind the Normandy veterans' standards to loud applause. "Proud" was how Peter Davies, 91, from Herefordshire, one of around 100 to march, described the final farewell to Normandy and D-day on the seafront at Arromanches. "Marching was very emotional". Davies drove on to Sword beach in a Sherman tank on D-day. "It brings it

Culture Film Woody Allen to film in Rhode Island The film -maker's next-but-one movie will be shot in the New England state and set in the world of academia New England state of mind … Woody Allen . Photograph: Andrew Medichini/AP Woody Allen 's next film but one will shoot in Rhode Island next July, reports the Boston Globe . Few details are known about the new project, but a report in Variety last month suggested it will star Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix . Allen is expected to write and direct, with the plot described as a "contemporary story" set in the world of academia. Stone also appears in A

  The Cannes film festival has awarded its top honour to the film many tipped as winner before it even started. The rest of the jury's picks, however, were less predictable My kingdom may be small but at least I'm the king," boasts the despised landlord at the heart of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Turkish drama Winter Sleep . In crowning the film with the all-important Palme d'Or award, the Cannes film festival laid on a coronation which suggested that the kingdom may be growing. "This is a great surprise for me," said the 55-year-old Ceylan, who has been a favourite of the Cannes selectors since his acclaimed drama Uzak took the 2002 jury prize. "This year is the 100th year of Turkish cinema and that is a good coincidence, I think." Winter Sleep is the first Turkish film to win the Palme since Yilmaz Guney's political saga Yol, back in 1982. On accepting the award, Ceylan dedicated his prize to the "young people" caught up

Tea and absolutely no empathy … Julianne Moore in Maps to the Stars David Cronenberg 's new film here at Cannes is a gripping and exquisitely horrible movie about contemporary Hollywood – positively vivisectional in its sadism and scorn. It is twisted, twisty, and very far from all the predictable outsider platitudes about celebrity culture. The status-anxiety, fame-vertigo, sexual satiety and that all-encompassing fear of failure which poisons every triumph are displayed here with an icy new connoisseurship, a kind of extremism which faces down the traditional objection that films like this are secretly infatuated with their subject. Every surface has a sickly sheen of anxiety; every face is a mask of pain suppressed to the last millimetre. It is a further refinement of this director's gifts for body horror and satire. Maps to the Stars has been written for the screen by Bruce Wagner whose Hollywood novels have the same sociopathically unc

The list could go on and on, but these are the poems that seem to me to have left the deepest mark on US literature – and me 1 mail Engraving of Walt Whitman by George C Cox. Image: Bettmann/Corbis For whatever reason, I woke up today with a list of the 10 greatest American poems in my head that had been accumulating through the night. Every list is subjective, and of course the use of "greatest" even more so - but these are not just "favorite" poems. I've been thinking about American  poetry  - and teaching it to university students - for nearly 40 years, and these are the 10 poems that, in my own reading life, have seemed the most durable; poems that shifted the course of poetry in the United States, as well as poems that I look forward to teaching every year because they represent something indelible. The list could go on and on, of course. I deeply regret leaving off Roethke's "The Lost Son", Adrienne Rich's "