They Kept Outsiders Away for 500 Years. Their World Is About to Change. - The New York Times

Almaty is winter tourism's quiet secret, a mountain range on the doorstep of a historic city, where hitting the slopes costs a fraction of the snowfields of Europe or North America. The multi-billion-dollar redevelopment of a vast ski resort on its doorstep will only make this destination more appealing to travelling snow bunnies. An hour's drive from Almaty, the soaring Tian Shan mountains offer great skiing, real altitude and unparalleled value, without the queues of Park City or Courchevel. Cathay Pacific's new direct flight to Almaty is the first nonstop service connecting Hong Kong and Kazakhstan. This direct link to Almaty, Kazakhstan's winter sports capital, is well timed as Almaty enters its peak ski season from December through March.

They say it’s always sunny in Los Angeles, but inside the Hollywood Pantages Theatre, you can count on it to pour eight shows a week. That’s thanks to a climactic moment in “The Outsiders” musical in which real water falls from the rafters as teen gangs brawl in a fight filled with rain, mud and stage blood. Staging that key three minutes of the show’s meticulously choreographed, highly anticipated climax, is a technical feat involving more than 100 gallons of water and unwavering physical acumen on the part of the cast. “We are really careful with each other in a really great way,” says Rick Kuperman who choreographed the show with his brother Jeff Kuperman, adding that the rumble is “not more or less dangerous than any of the things that happen on a Broadway stage. It’s choreographed within an inch of its life — it has to be with that many bodies and that much traffic and activity.”While “The Outsiders,” may feature two warring teen gangs, it’s all love an hour before the curtain rises on the L. A.-premiere stop of the national tour.

Israeli settlers have attacked European diplomats, including a French mayor, near the Palestinian village of Taybeh in the occupied West Bank. The delegation was visiting Palestinian olive harvesters on Saturday when the Israeli attackers confronted the group. The attack comes a day after settlers assaulted a US journalist north of Ramallah. In Saturday’s incident, the settlers targeted Belgium’s consul general, French and Polish diplomats and Catholic representatives, Belgian Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot said. “A French mayor was assaulted and a Belgian vehicle damaged,” Prevot said, linking the attack to what he called Israel’s “illegal settlement policy” and pledging to push for further European Union sanctions. French mayor Bernard Baudoux, who was assaulted, told the AFP news agency that the violence suggests that “there is a tolerance on the part of the Israeli government” towards settler violence. Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Ramallah, said the settlers surrounded the diplomats’ vehicles, pelted them with stones and smashed their windows.

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What researchers uncovered through lab testing and surveillance footage, prosecutors said, was a plot by his fellow graduate student to intentionally poison him.