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Neymar claims he and Lionel Messi lived through hell at PSG | Neymar

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Neymar This article is more than 4 months oldNeymar claims he and Lionel Messi ‘lived through hell’ at PSGThis article is more than 4 months oldStars were subject to abuse from club’s fans last seasonBoth players left French club this summerNeymar has issued a withering depiction of his time at Paris Saint‑Germain, saying he was subject to unfair abuse from the club’s fans. In an interview with Globo that aired on Sunday he spoke about the mixed feelings he had when his former PSG and Barcelona teammate Lionel Messi won the World Cup with Argentina last year. Read More...

Zimbabwe's Mister Ugly winner 'too handsome' video | World news

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Zimbabwe Zimbabwe's Mister Ugly winner 'too handsome' – video Mison Sere, 42, expresses his delight after winning a ‘Mister Ugly 2015’ competition in Harare on Saturday. But previous winner William Masvinu is furious. ‘If you are missing front teeth it does not make you ugly. You need natural ugliness from birth,’ he says Uproar as Zimbabwe’s Mister Ugly winner deemed ‘too handsome’ Source: AFP Read More...

A Childhood: The Biography of a Place review a classic of the deep south

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Book of the dayBiography booksReviewHarry Crews’s unsparing portrait of his often brutal upbringing in 1930s Georgia is a window into a lost world If a cult writer’s aura endures long enough, their work might be elevated to Penguin Classics status. At leas, that’s what’s happened to Harry Crews, the author of many southern gothic novels populated by freaks and grotesques, including his most well-known novel, A Feast of Snakes. Born in Georgia in 1935, Crews died in 2012 and claimed to have sold only a few thousand books in hardback during his lifetime (a series of celebrity admirers including Sean Penn and Madonna failed to translate into mainstream popularity). Read More...

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