Of coal and fresh logs, for burning on open fires and stoves in an attempt to reduce air pollution. And the winner is, a movie from south korea. What the hail was that all about . Donald trump has a dig at the oscars for awarding best picture to parasite, a dark south korean comedy about class struggle and wealth inequality. And in sport theres no stopping wolves in their european adventure as they look to be heading into the last 16 in the europa league. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9 the man convicted of killing the british backpacker Grace Millane in new zealand has been sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 17 years. Before the sentencing, graces mother gillian gave an emotional victim impact statement via video link, saying her daughter died terrified and alone. Our correspondent Shaima Khalil reports. On the eve of her 22nd birthday, Grace Millane spent a night out with this man but shortly after these pictures were captured, he murdered her. The killer has
At the dawn of movie-making, having people kiss on camera was a risqué way to pull in audiences still getting used to this new medium. The first of these tiny love stories was Thomas Edison s 1896 short,
The Kiss, which featured two white performers. Two years later, Black vaudeville actors Saint Suttle and Gertie Brown smilingly puckered up in short by director and studio-founder William Selig titled
Something Good-Negro Kiss. Rediscovered in 2017 by Dino Everett, a film archivist at the University of Southern California,
Something Good is thought to be the earliest kiss between Black people on film. The Kiss 1898 Credit:
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It s been quite a run recently for Dolly Parton. When COVID-19 closed schools, Parton the founder of Imagination Library, which has given away millions of books since 1990 took to YouTube to read stories to children (and to adults too, if we re being honest).
She published her own book,
Songteller, a memoir told through her lyrics, and released an album and holiday television special, both called
Here I Am, of a podcast,
Dolly Parton s America, that explored her broad appeal in both Red and Blue states, and of a Nashville mural that quoted her response to the marches for social justice following the killing of George Floyd: Of course Black lives matter, she told