Lian Yunzhi solves 3x3 puzzle on several occasions in average time of under 4.5 seconds, according to state media

The two authors are in the running for the £50,000 award alongside a Pulitzer winner, a science fiction legend, a comic writer and a debut novelist • Booker judge Mary Beard on this year’s shortlist This year’s Booker prize shortlist features some very familiar names – previous winners Marlon James and Douglas Stuart are in the running once more, along with Pulitzer winner Elizabeth Strout and prominent British speculative fiction writer M John Harrison. Novelist and poet Luke Kennard and debut novelist Rebecca Perry are also in contention for the £50,000 prize, the winner of which will be announced on Monday 9 November. James, the Jamaican writer who took home the prize in 2015 for A Brief History of Seven Killings, was shortlisted this time for The Disappearers. Set in Aids-era Jamaica, the novel centres around an attack on a group of queer men rehearsing John Herbert’s prison-set play Fortune and Men’s Eyes. Coming in at 640 pages, it’s the longest on the list. Continue reading...

Nädalavahetuse suur sadu põhjustas Harjumaal Rae vallas Pirita jõe määrdumise.

The rapid professionalisation of woman’s football has brought money and status. But copying the structures and culture of the male game risks undermining what made it distinct, says author Karen Dobre...

Pioneering study linking noise pollution to Parkinson’s finds 3% increase in risk for every 11.5dB rise in noise levels

One of the reasons for Bergengruen’s obscurity in Germany today might be that his writing is rich and sometimes too colourful, almost baroque in his descriptions

Keira Alexandra Kronvold’s daughter was taken from her after she was subjected to parental competence psychometric tests

Estonia is failing to do environmental assessments that are required under EU legislation that governs management of the Natura 2000.

“Let us be masters in our own country, not avaricious colonists, who leave a ravaged country behind them…” the late Estonian president, Lennart Meri, said in a speech on 24 February 2000.

The legislative amendment follows last year's decision by the European Court of Justice, which upheld a logging ban during the nesting season in Estonia.

Originally published in Estonian World on 11 April 2022. It’s a cold spring morning and I’m watching a tour guide in the Old Town of Tallinn. With her back to a park built on a city block destroyed in World War 2 and facing a set of mediæval buildings not far from the old town square, head in a warm beanie, she’s explaining Estonia to a group of cruise ship tourists.