The ObserverHigh SocietyConstantine Niarchos had it all: a personal fortune of a billioin pounds, romances with Koo Stark and Kerry Kennedy. He had even climbed Mount Everest. So why was he found dead, with enough cocaine in his system to kill 25 men? Andrew Anthony investigates.It was 20 degrees below freezing, and night-time, when a multimillionaire from Mayfair set off into the Death Zone. That comically forbidding phrase may evoke the virtual drama of a computer game, but it is used by mountaineers to describe the territory more than 8,000 metres above sea level, where the body ceases to function properly and begins rapidly to die. Read More...
Honduras This article is more than 7 months oldHonduras players boycott Louisiana friendly amid farcical pitch conditionsThis article is more than 7 months oldSquad complain about pitch, transport and accommodationMatch was scheduled in area with large Honduran populationHonduras’s men’s football team is at loggerheads with a Louisiana club after its players backed out of a friendly match hours before kickoff, citing poor field conditions.
Honduras had scheduled the match against Barbados as preparation for this summer’s Gold Cup, Concacaf’s regional championship, which will run from 24 June to 16 July in various US cities. Read More...
History booksReviewEmpire proves a distorting lens through which to view Britain’s fraught history of race relations
To a certain kind of imperial historian, empire is everywhere. Like latter-day John Hobsons, they believe they alone are keeping alive the anti‑imperial tradition, courageously defying the curmudgeonly nostalgics sipping gin and tonic in the home counties like nabobs of old. But Hobson wrote his famous Imperialism: A Study in 1902, when empire was approaching its zenith and few among his peers counted as anti-imperialist. Read More...