10 h. ago Antarctic scientist 'attacker' will receive psychological help and apologise to victim, officials reveal after isolated team begged for help over his 'deeply disturbing' conduct

Staff require a series of background checks and mental and physical health assessments before moving to the remote site but experts say the isolation can take a toll

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11 h. ago Antarctica scientist accused of assault breaks silence after researchers beg to leave base

Researchers at South Africa's remote Sanae IV base had urged their bosses to let them leave or remove the scientist after he allegedly attacked and sexually harassed colleagues

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31 h. ago Antarctic scientist accused of threatening to kill colleagues trapped in research station apologises

The South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment said the alleged perpetrator has “shown remorse”

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33 h. ago Revealed: What made Antarctic scientist snap and 'assault and threaten to kill colleagues'

The scientists are currently stationed at Sanae IV base, a research centre located on the northern tip of Antarctica some 4,000 kilometres from their South African homeland

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2 d. ago American Pie actor, 35, breaks silence after being freed from ICE prison over visa issue: 'It was deeply disturbing'

Jasmine Mooney, 35, returned home to Vancouver nearly two weeks after she was detained by U.S. immigration officials.

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3 d. ago Generation Zombie by Charlotte Armitage: How our mobile phones became weapons of mass destruction

This deeply disturbing account of how mobile phones are irreparably harming the next generation is both harrowing and timely

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7 d. ago Inside Diego Maradona's House of Horrors: Prosecutors horrify court with graphic photos of football legend's dead body and walk through a model of his home as they accuse doctors of MURDERING him

Prosecutors have claimed football legend Diego Maradona was 'murdered and died in a 'theatre of horror' as a trial began in Argentina of the medical team responsible for his care.

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7 d. ago Dream move or nightmare in waiting? Lewis Hamilton on red alert with Ferrari

The seven-time world champion begins his 19th Formula One season with the most famous team on the grid.

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1 week ago Pentagon official condemned over tweet about Jewish victim lynched by Georgia mob

Kingsley Wilson disputed innocence of Leo Frank, widely agreed to have been wrongly convicted of girl’s 1913 murderThe Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has condemned a past social media post by Pentagon spokesperson Kingsley Wilson that disputed the innocence of Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman whom most historians agree was wrongfully convicted of killing a 13-year-old factory worker and lynched in 1915 during a wave of antisemitism in the US.“Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” Wilson wrote on X in response to an August 2024 tweet by the ADL marking the 109th anniversary of Frank’s lynching. “The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.” Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Don Jr attacks 'deeply disturbed and f***ed' up Dem politicians who refused to clap for child brain cancer survivor who was made an honorary Secret Service member

Donald Trump Jr has launched a scathing attack against the 'deeply disturbed' Democrats who refused to clap as his father honored DJ Daniels, a 13-year-old boy suffering from brain cancer.

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2 w. ago Jannik Sinner’s pointed Indian Wells absence leaves door open for rivals

Banned world No 1 casts a shadow as tour returns to tournament at which sequence of events began that led to punishmentEarly on during his stay in the Californian desert a year ago, Giacomo Naldi allegedly reached into his treatment bag one morning and accidentally brushed his left finger across the blade of a scalpel used to remove calluses, immediately drawing blood. Two days later, after Naldi had removed the bandage from his finger, his colleague Umberto Ferrara suggested he use the over-the-counter ointment Trofodermin to treat his healing wound.Naldi and Ferrara were in Indian Wells as Jannik Sinner’s physio and fitness trainer respectively. According to Sinner and his team, as Naldi began to use the ointment to treat his wound while also conducting his daily treatment on Sinner without gloves and Sinner undertook two doping tests in the subsequent two weeks, these events put into motion the most high-profile anti-doping case in tennis history as he twice tested positive. Cont...

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2 w. ago Innocence review – monumental achievement shows how essential opera can be

Adelaide festival Finnish opera of staggering depth by Kaija Saariaho and directed by Simon Stone, set in the aftermath of a school shootingGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailIt’s a cliche as regular as clockwork in the aftermath of an inexplicable tragedy: “That was the day we lost our innocence”. But do we really start from a place of innocence or are we always somehow complicit in acts of violence? Do perpetrators attack from without, or are they an expression of something abominable within the community, its monstrous id? These questions haunt the halls of Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary contemporary opera as surely as they’ll disturb the dreams of its audience.Innocence opens with a deeply ominous series of chords from the lowest keys on the piano, as swirling strings and smirking bassoons mix with the trills and runs from the higher woodwinds, punctuated by the occasional crash of percussion. Atmospheric doesn’t begin to cover it. The music has shades o...

Culture

2 w. ago The next Man City team is beginning to emerge as Pep Guardiola plans for the future

Manchester City put their struggles against Real Madrid and Liverpool behind them to beat Tottenham 1-0 in North London with an impressive performance.

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3 w. ago British team begins potential final search for missing MH370 Malaysia Airlines flight

New area about 1,500km off the coast of Australia to be scoured in search for the Boeing 777

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3 w. ago Dem Senator lays in to Elon Musk as the 'ultimate bad boss' with expletive ridden post as deadline for federal workers to respond to his email looms

Hundreds of thousands of workers began their week in chaos after Musk's team gave staff roughly 48 hours to report five specific things they had accomplished last week

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4 w. ago Mother of Southport victim praises community in first interview since attack

The mother of Alice da Silva Aguiar has praised the community for the support she and her husband Sergio received in the aftermath of the attack.

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