36 h. ago Grim update after teenager Jacob Thompson was allegedly doused in petrol and set alight

The family of a teenager who was allegedly doused in petrol and set alight after a feud have revealed the gruesome extent of his injuries. 

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3 d. ago Daisy May Cooper admits to DRUGGING her parents with sleeping pills so she could romp with her teenage boyfriend in family home after years of 'toxic parenting'

Eight years ago, Cirencester's most famous siblings, Daisy May and Charlie Cooper, became the toast of the TV world.

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5 d. ago OpenAI relaxed ChatGPT guardrails just before teen killed himself, family alleges

Adam Raine’s suicide at 16 years old was ‘predictable result of deliberate design choices’ by OpenAI, his family saysThe family of a teenager who took his own life after months of conversations with ChatGPT now says OpenAI weakened safety guidelines in the months before his death.In July 2022, OpenAI’s guidelines on how ChatGPT should answer inappropriate content, including “content that promotes, encourages, or depicts acts of self-harm, such as suicide, cutting, and eating disorders”, were simple. The AI chatbot should respond, “I can’t answer that”, the guidelines read. Continue reading...

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1 week ago TikTok star dubbed 'Las Mafias' who survived direct hit arrested for armed robbery

Joselyn Yahaira Hernández, who has 1.2 million TikTok followers, is accused of carrying out the robbery while on a motorbike in Mexico City. She was arrested after a police chase

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1 week ago Remembering Mama Africa: struggle of fearless singer Miriam Makeba told in daring dance drama

Mimi’s Shebeen, choreographed by Alesandra Seutin, charts South African legend’s exile and ascendancy with ‘beautiful songs, strong messages and moments that hit’“You speak about Miriam Makeba in South Africa and it’s like speaking about a queen,” says Alesandra Seutin. The legendary singer Makeba was known as Mama Africa, and the Empress of African Song; but she also hung out in Greenwich Village with Miles Davis and Duke Ellington. She was a teenager sent out to work to support her family in Johannesburg who later became a diplomat for Ghana, then Guinea’s official delegate to the UN. An outspoken anti-apartheid activist, she was the wife of a Black Panther. And her rich life and legacy are the inspiration for choreographer Seutin’s latest work, Mimi’s Shebeen, about to get its UK premiere.Mimi’s Shebeen blends dance, live music and spoken word in a piece of theatre that’s no straightforward biodrama but draws on Makeba’s history, particularly her story of exile: after moving to N...

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2 w. ago Louder than Bombs: Joachim Trier’s thorniest film might be his best

The director of Sentimental Value and The Worst Person in the World made his English-language debut with this divisive family drama in 2015. It’s worth watching for Isabelle Huppert aloneGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailLong before Joachim Trier made the Oscar-winning The Worst Person in the World and this year’s festival megahit Sentimental Value, there was 2015’s Louder than Bombs: a far stranger, slipperier film worth watching for Isabelle Huppert’s spectral turn alone. She plays a character also called Isabelle, a renowned war photographer whose secrets haunt her family three years after her sudden death.Her teenage son Conrad (Devin Druid) still daydreams in class about the car crash that claimed her life, imagining her final, panicked moments. His brother Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) and father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) know (and conceal) the truth: that her fateful, split-second swerve was an act of suicide. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Pair arrested in San Diego after police seize stolen wrestling action figures ‘worth thousands’

Miguel Dominguez, 52, and Brittany Gomez, 36, detained by officers in bust during retail theft investigation

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3 w. ago Man charged over Marcus's death: Family's agony after British teenager who was jailed for holiday romance in Dubai with girl, 17, dies in crash three months after prison release

Marcus Fakana, 19, tragically died after a car he was a passenger in smashed into another vehicle while it was being tailed by the Metropolitan Police in Tottenham, north London.

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3 w. ago Family of a teenager who died in stolen motorbike chase do not blame rider

Dean Barnes, 16, had been a passenger on a stolen bike being driven by Adam Norman when it crashed. Norman has been jailed for more than 16 years.

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3 w. ago Family of teenager killed as he rode as motorbike passenger don't hold jailed rider responsible

Dean Barnes died after the motorbike being driven by Adam Norman crashed

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3 w. ago Moment teen girl gang ambush pensioner, 75, before beating him to death in attack filmed on mobile phone

Fredi Rivero, 75, died in hospital after he was punched to the ground by three teenage girls, who lunched an unprovoked attack which they film on a mobile phone. The girls were jailed today.

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3 w. ago Teen girl gang who killed pensioner, 75, in vicious street attack they filmed on mobile phone are locked up

Fredi Rivero, 75, died in hospital after he was punched to the ground by three teenage girls, who lunched an unprovoked attack which they film on a mobile phone. The girls were jailed today.

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3 w. ago Elderly man was killed after being ambushed by drunken teenage girls filmed on mobile, as his family ask: 'What type of generation is this?'

Fredi Rivero, 75, died in hospital after he was punched to the ground by three teenage girls, who lunched an unprovoked attack which they film on a mobile phone.

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3 w. ago All Creatures Great and Small star Rachel Shenton says 'it’s difficult' as she opens up on heartbreaking loss

Rachel Shenton says she became 'resilient' as a child after suffering a devastating family loss as a teenager

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4 w. ago ChatGPT getting parental controls after family say it drove teenager to suicide

Adam Raine’s family has claimed that ChatGPT became a ‘suicide coach’ for their son after it failed to flag alarming messages he sent on the app

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last month I watched Channel 4's The Disappearance of Jay Slater and four moments will stay with me

Channel 4's The Disappearance of Jay Slater documentary was a heartbreaking insight into the family's desperate search for answers ever since the teenager was reported missing in Tenerfie

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