UC Berkeley

An advertising board in New York City's Times Square has been lit up to show a live counter of the coronavirus death toll in the US.

Branded the "Trump Death Clock" it was created by filmmaker Eugene Jarecki and installed on the roof of a Times Square building.

Mr Jarecki says the deaths from coronavirus are down to inaction by President Trump.

Modeled after Dumbledore’s Army in Harry Potter, an Anti-Trump ‘Resistance School’ that trains left-wing activists is expanding from Harvard University to UC Berkeley.

Conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos says he will spend “hundreds of thousands of dollars” on security during an upcoming event at the University of California-Berkeley.

At last all those Game of Thrones fanatics will see the endless hours of watching their favourite series pay off. Pulling a page from University of California, Berkeley’s course roster, Harvard University will use the blood, guts, and political intrigue of HBO’s huge hiot to draw students into the world of medieval studies.

In the wake of controversial comments unearthed from a podcast that seemed to defend sexual relationships between young teenagers and adults under certain circumstances, Breitbart editor and gay libertarian firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was disinvited by CPAC as the keynote speaker at its upcoming event and lost his lucrative book deal from Simon & Schuster.

Controversial conservative commentator and Breitbart New editor Milo Yiannopoulos was forced to cancel a talk at California’s Berkeley University, after protesters hurled smoke bombs, broke windows and lit a bonfire. The university’s officials were prompted to put his talk off for safety concerns.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's trip to Washington last month showed just how far the Turkish government's reputation has plunged in the West. Erdo?an's security team stirred outrage by roughing up both protesters and ordinary reporters trying to enter the Brookings Institution think tank, where he spoke on March 31.

'The Fall of the Turkish Model: How the Arab Uprisings Brought Down Islamic Liberalism' by Cihan Tu?al (Verso, £20, 304 pages)

BELGRADE - Aleksandra Vrebalov, a US-based Serbian composer whose Beyond Zero project - commissioned by UC Berkeley to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War and recently performed in Serbia by the Kronos Quartet - is the winner of the prestigious annual award of Harvard University's Fromm Music Foundation.