The Who play first Cincinnati gig since tragedy
Cincinnati: Rock band
The Who have announced they will play their first concert in the Cincinnati area since 11 fans died there 40 years ago in a pre-show stampede.
The band will play on April 23 next year at Northern Kentucky University’s BB&T Arena, seven miles south of the site of the concert on December 3 1979 in the Ohio city where another two dozen people were injured amid confusion and lack of preparation for thousands of fans who queued up for hours.
The news came after WCPO-TV in Cincinnati aired a documentary featuring lead singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist Pete Townshend.
Both said they have been haunted by the tragedy. Townshend recently saidhe was looking forward to discussing it in Cincinnati.
“Now we can have a conversation about it when we go back,” Townshend said. “We’ll be there. That’s what’s important.
“I’m so glad that we’ve got this opportunity to go back.”
Malta: A Maltese taxi driver giving evidence under immunity from prosecution has said a local casino and hotel owner was the sole mastermind of the 2017 car bomb murder of an anti-corruption journalist.
Melvin Theuma told a Maltese court that a plot to kill Daphne Caruana Galizia was reactivated by hotelier Yorgen Fenech after the governing Labour Party won re-election in 2017.
Last week, in separate proceedings, a court arraigned Mr Fenech on charges he organised and financed the murder.
Mr Fenech has pleaded innocent.
He was arrested while sailing away from Malta on his yacht.
Mr Theuma testified at a court hearing evidence against three men jailed as the alleged actual bombers.
European Parliament politicians ended a factfinding mission to Malta concluding there was progress in the murder investigation but no improvement about corruption and money laundering.
Madrid: Placido Domingo has sought to blame allegations of sexual harassment against him on cultural differences between countries, adding that there are places nowadays where “one can’t say anything to a woman”.
In an interview published in Spanish leading daily El Pais, the Madrid-born tenor said “here [in Spain] it’s not like that but in other places, and specifically in those groups from where the accusations come, it is”.
The Associated Press reported earlier this year allegations in the United States by more than 20 women of sexual harassment or inappropriate behaviour.
Some claimed that rejecting his advances hurt their musical careers.
Domingo, 78, denies the allegations. While most US dates were axed after the reports and a probe is under way at the Los Angeles Opera, European venues have backed Domingo.