26 h. ago Dad accused of abandoning kids on mountain after they ask 'will we freeze to death?'

Micah Smith faces child torture and abuse charges after allegedly abandoning his three children aged 2, 4 and 8 overnight on a Utah mountain during severe weather, leaving them in critical condition

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43 h. ago Dad of Scot accused of spying in Ukraine 'confused' over claims son helped Russians

Ross Cutmore, from Dunfermline, is accused by the Ukraine military of turning traitor to allow the Russians to murder political targets - household names in Ukraine.

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3 d. ago Dad accused of drowning daughter in swamp for adopting 'Western lifestyle'

The 18-year-old's body was found gagged and tied up by a passerby in the northern Dutch town of Joure, having been gagged, bound with tape and submerged in a swamp

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5 d. ago Children ask 'are we going to freeze to death, daddy?' as he 'abandons them on mountain'

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. As 31-year-old Micah Smith led his three children up a mountain in stormy conditions, his young daughter had just one heartbreaking question: "Are we going to freeze to death, Daddy?"

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9 d. ago Married headteacher 'exposed himself to colleague' and said 'I just cannot help myself'

The dad of two James is accused of exposing himself to a number of colleagues

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1 week ago Dad accused of helping killer son after teen, 17, stabbed to death told 'the net has tightened around you'

Carl Benson denies the charge of assisting an offender

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2 w. ago What AI doesn’t know: we could be creating a global ‘knowledge collapse’ | Deepak Varuvel Dennison

As GenAI becomes the primary way to find information, local and traditional wisdom is being lost. And we are only beginning to realise what we’re missingThis article was originally published as ‘Holes in the web’ on Aeon.coA few years back, my dad was diagnosed with a tumour on his tongue – which meant we had some choices to weigh up. My family has an interesting dynamic when it comes to medical decisions. While my older sister is a trained doctor in western allopathic medicine, my parents are big believers in traditional remedies. Having grown up in a small town in India, I am accustomed to rituals. My dad had a ritual, too. Every time we visited his home village in southern Tamil Nadu, he’d get a bottle of thick, pungent, herb-infused oil from a vaithiyar, a traditional doctor practising Siddha medicine. It was his way of maintaining his connection with the kind of medicine he had always known and trusted.Dad’s tumour showed signs of being malignant, so the hospital doctors and my...

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2 w. ago Trial of teenage boys accused of murdering loving dad begins

Kamran Aman, 38, died following an incident in Barry Road, Barry, just before midnight on June 30

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3 w. ago Border patrol arrested Los Angeles dad and drove off with his baby. DHS accused him of assault: ‘We refuse to apologize’

The arrest follows a series of immigration operations targeting parents and families in front of their children

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