‘Went far too soon’: Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger killed in avalanche in Switzerland | World News

‘Went far too soon’: Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger killed in avalanche in Switzerland | World News

Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger has died following an avalanche in Switzerland, the country’s skiing federation has said. Hediger, 26 and a member of Switzerland’s snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, was in the mountain resort of Arosa when the incident occurred on Monday. Hediger competed at the Beijing Games in the women’s…

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How Indian artists envisioned Christ’s birth

How Indian artists envisioned Christ’s birth

From the British Library archive This 17th Century painting fuses Islamic motifs with Renaissance style artwork The birth of Jesus Christ – a seminal biblical event – has been the subject of many paintings by Western artists, who have often applied the ideas of beauty and creativity prevalent there while depicting the event on canvas….

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Denmark to spice up defence spending for Greenland after Trump repeats name for US management | World Information

Denmark to spice up defence spending for Greenland after Trump repeats name for US management | World Information

Denmark has introduced plans to spice up its defence spending for Greenland with a “stronger presence within the Arctic” – a couple of hours after Donald Trump repeated his name for the US to purchase the huge island. Danish defence minister Troels Lund Poulsen stated the package deal would quantity to a “double-digit billion quantity”…

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