Day In Pictures: 5 October 2012

LONDON — British lawmakers gave initial approval Friday to a bill to help terminally ill adults end their lives in England and Wales. After an impassioned debate, members of Parliament approved the so-called assisted dying bill by a vote of 330 to 275. The vote signals lawmakers’ approval in principle for the bill and sends it on to further scrutiny in Parliament.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Senna. On May 1, 1994, at the start of the sixth lap at Italy’s San Marino Grand Prix, 34-year-old Ayrton Senna Da Silva crashed his newly-designed Williams race car into a concrete wall at 145 miles per hour. Later that day, the Formula 1 driver, winner of three championships, would be pronounced dead at a local hospital, sending shockwaves throughout the racing world and his home country of Brazil. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] The event makes up the first brief sequence in Senna, a new six-episode Netflix miniseries, which traces the majority of his adult racing life and his ascent to the top of his sport.

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump is set to create a National Energy Council that he says will establish American “energy dominance” around the world as he seeks to boost U. S. oil and gas drilling and move away from President Joe Biden’s focus on climate change. The energy council — to be led by North Dakota Gov.

PARIS — After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral showed its new self to the world Friday, with rebuilt soaring ceilings and creamy good-as-new stonework erasing somber memories of its devastating fire in 2019. Images broadcast live of a site visit by French President Emmanuel Macron showed the inside of the iconic cathedral as worshippers might have experienced it back in medieval times, its wide, open spaces filled with bright light on a crisp and sunny winter’s day that lit up the vibrant colors of the stained glass windows. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] Outside, the monument is still a construction site, with scaffolding and cranes.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for The Trunk Netflix’s latest Korean drama, The Trunk (트렁크), begins with a gunshot and the sinking of the titular trunk to the depths of a lake. Soon after, a flashback to five months prior introduces us to Noh In-ji (Dr. Romantic’s Seo Hyun-jin), an employee at New Wedding (NM), a mysterious company that provides professional spouses for the richest of the rich.

Well, that sure was a month, was it not? If November 2024 has left you feeling some kind of way, then at least TV has appropriate options for just about any mood. In search of insight into our chaotic present? Try The Madness. A lighthearted take on the health-care crisis?