20 h. ago The Courageous review – rebellious mum on the edge will have you sobbing in sympathy

Call My Agent!’s Ophélia Kolb leads a Swiss drama with morally ambiguous realism reminiscent of the Dardenne brothersJust in time for the migration of children from their summer stations in front of phones, games consoles and laptops back to full-time education comes this Swiss-set tale of a mother on the edge. An outstanding Ophélia Kolb (arguably best known to anglophone audiences for playing the accountant Colette in Call My Agent!) stars here as Jule, a single woman trying to hold it together for her brood of three. Eldest child Claire (Jasmine Kalisz Saurer) is just entering puberty and is savvy enough to work out that mama isn’t always strictly truthful about why she wears an ankle monitor that beeps when she strays from certain areas. (Jule’s explanation that she has weak bones doesn’t really cut it.) But younger brothers Loic (Paul Besnier) and Sami (Arthur Devaux) just read it as normal that Jule disappears for long periods of time, leaving them abandoned at a cafe, for ins...

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68 h. ago Brothers horror 'honour killing' as they gouge out sister's eyes and cut off both her feet'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two brothers in Pakistan have been accused of gouging out their sister's eyes and cutting off her feet in a brutal 'honour killing'

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68 h. ago Brothers cut off sister's feet and gouge out her eyes in chilling 'honour killing'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Two brothers in Pakistan have been accused of gouging out their sister's eyes and cutting off her feet in a brutal 'honour killing'

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4 d. ago Electric shocks, starvation, sick surgical experiments... and brutal castration: Horror stories from bloodied survivors of Putin's savage conveyor belt of torture

Earlier this year, a soldier known only as Vladyslav was taken prisoner along with seven others. Their Russian captors sliced off their genitals, gouged out their eyes and cut off their ears, noses and lips.

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5 d. ago Woman's horrifying six words as she ripped out her own eyes outside church

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Kaylee Muthart, 20, was left blind after she gouged out her own eyes in a meth-induced psychotic episode in which she believed the act of self-mutilation would save the world and bring her closer to God

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5 d. ago Woman gouged out her own eyes outside church so she could 'see the light'

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Kaylee Muthart's world went black on February 6, 2018, when she gouged her eyes out of her head and squished them thinking it would bring her closer to God.

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5 d. ago Woman screamed chilling six words as she gouged out her own eyes

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Kaylee Muthart's life was spiralling out of control when she suffered a psychotic episode after taking a higher-than-normal dose of meth, which led her to believe she had to sacrifice something important

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7 d. ago Hero Ukrainian soldier has his throat cut and is buried alive by Russian torturers before crawling to safety for FIVE DAYS as he describes comrades being castrated and having eyes gouged out

The 33-year-old National Guard serviceman, identified only as Vladislav, was captured earlier this month near the city of Pokrovsk after Russian forces overran his unit's position.

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9 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks as eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: James Patterson Smith was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of 17-year-old Kelly Anne Bates, who he tortured for weeks in one of the UK's most shocking crimes

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9 d. ago Teen tortured for weeks, eyes gouged out and scalp removed in UK's worst murder

In one of the most gruesome recorded murders to ever take place in the UK, a 17-year-old was tortured for weeks by her abusive partner, who gouged out her eyes and partially scalped her

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1 week ago Girl, 8, executed and had eyes gouged out in sinister 'sacrifice' for soon

A young girl was brutally murdered and had her body mutilated after being abducted for a ritual that a couple believed would help the birth of their future child

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2 w. ago Horror murder of girl, 2, with eyes gouged out and hands crushed

Twinkle Sharma was just two years old when she was brutally murdered in Aligarh, India, in a sickening act of revenge after her father failed to repay a loan

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2 w. ago Brutal murder of girl, 2, over father's debt as she has eyes gouged out and hands crushed

The world was left horrified when toddler Twinkle Sharma was brutally killed - and her mutilated body was discovered after being dragged from a rubbish bin by stray dogs

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2 w. ago Man lures Grindr date into his home for a massage... before 'gouging his eye out with kitchen knife'

Reggie Florence, 28, convinced a man to drive from Long Island to Middletown, New York, and allegedly stabbed him during a massage - with cleaning supplies at the ready nearby.

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2 w. ago Putin's dark childhood from mother's eye gouged out to being chased by rats

Vladimir Putin has become one of the most powerful men in the world, but his childhood was marked by tragedy and violence in Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg

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2 w. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

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2 w. ago Death row killer gouged out own eyes and ate them after killing wife and kids

Andre Thomas was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of his wife Laura Christine Boren, his four-year-old son and Boren's 13-month-old daughter in Texas

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2 w. ago Death row prisoner cuts out wife and kids' hearts then gouges out and eats his own eyes

The man on death row was found in his cell covered in blood after he gouged out both of his eyes in a bid to avoid execution after he believed God told him to carry out a triple murder

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3 w. ago Vladimir Putin's dad 'gouged out his mum's eye with pitchfork in fit of rage'

A bombshell new book about Russian President Vladimir Putin's life claims his dad gouged out his mum's eye with a pitchfork during 'a fit of rage'

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3 w. ago Vladimir Putin's brute father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork 'in a fit of rage', new book claims

Vladimir Putin's father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.

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