40 h. ago From New York to Sierra Leone: a sister’s search for ‘just another missing black woman’

Oluwaseun Babalola’s film Fighting Giants is an exploration of the misogyny and racism encountered by her family as they attempted to uncover the truth behind her sibling’s disappearance seven years agoOluwaseun Babalola remembers the exact moment she started to worry about her sister. It was 14 August 2018 and she was sitting on a sofa in a friend’s flat in Queens, New York. She had spent 10 days trying to get hold of Massah KaiKai, who had been due to travel from Sierra Leone, where she lived, to visit her in the US.The sisters messaged or called each other every day, often multiple times. “We talked about everything and nothing. I would come home to a bunch of voice notes. She would vent or have something very funny to say – she was a very funny person,” says Babalola. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago From New York to Sierra Leone: misogyny, racism and the search for a missing sister

Oluwaseun Babalola’s film Fighting Giants is an exploration of the barriers encountered by her family as they attempted to uncover the truth behind her sibling’s disappearance seven years agoOluwaseun Babalola remembers the exact moment she started to worry about her sister. It was 14 August 2018 and she was sitting on a sofa in a friend’s flat in Queens, New York. She had spent 10 days trying to get hold of Massah KaiKai, who had been due to travel from Sierra Leone, where she lived, to visit her in the US.The sisters messaged or called each other every day, often multiple times. “We talked about everything and nothing. I would come home to a bunch of voice notes. She would vent or have something very funny to say – she was a very funny person,” says Babalola. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago From New York to Sierra Leone: the search for a missing sister

Oluwaseun Babalola’s film Fighting Giants is an exploration of the misogyny and racism encountered by her family as they attempted to uncover the truth behind her sibling’s disappearance seven years agoOluwaseun Babalola remembers the exact moment she started to worry about her sister. It was 14 August 2018 and she was sitting on a sofa in a friend’s flat in Queens, New York. She had spent 10 days trying to get hold of Massah KaiKai, who had been due to travel from Sierra Leone, where she lived, to visit her in the US.The sisters messaged or called each other every day, often multiple times. “We talked about everything and nothing. I would come home to a bunch of voice notes. She would vent or have something very funny to say – she was a very funny person,” says Babalola. Continue reading...

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63 h. ago Madeleine McCann's brother pursues Olympics in rare photo as search for sister continues

Madeleine McCann's parents Kate and Gerry McCann are supporting their son Sean as he chases his Olympic dream - as investigators search for a trace of his missing sister

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5 d. ago 'I've never been so proud': Sam Thompson’s sister Louise on his autism diagnosis and 260

EXCLUSIVE: The former Made In Chelsea star said she thinks it’s ‘really cool‘ that he’s able to be open about who he really is and to use his platform to help others

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1 week ago Heartbreaking question young brother of Pheobe Bishop asked his mother as search continues for missing teenager

The mum of Pheobe Bishop, who vanished without a trace after failing to board a flight, has shared the one question her young son asked as the search for his missing sister continues. 

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2 w. ago English teacher, 31, died after collapsing and banging his head while putting on his trainers, inquest told

Patrick Guthrie, 31, was found dead in the living room by his sister after missing two days of work, an inquest heard.

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3 w. ago Faye Reagan update provided by police as fears grow about missing adult star

EXCLUSIVE: Despite confusion over a social media post from a woman claiming to be Faye Reagan's sister, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Missing Persons Detail has provided an update on the disappearance

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3 w. ago ‘These murders still live with me’: the show that goes inside Fred and Rose West’s ‘house of horrors’

Featuring moving interviews from the relatives of victims and chilling new footage of a handcuffed Fred locating the bodies at Cromwell Street, a new Netflix documentary pushes the true crime genre to its limitDez Chambers waited 15 years to get the news she didn’t want. All that time, she thought her missing little sister, Alison, might still be out there. Dez would watch documentaries about homelessness to see if perhaps she’d recognise a face, and even attempted the Salvation Army’s family tracing service. “It was hope,” she says from her home in the Netherlands.Hope faded one day in 1994. Calling her from the UK, Dez’s mother-in-law cried down the phone. There was panic, there was confusion, “so I had to ask her. And then she said it was in the papers that the remains had been identified as Alison.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Talented' McCann twins now at university after tragedy of missing sister Madeleine

One of Madeleine McCann's twin siblings is being tipped to represent Team GB at the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles - while another is said to be doing well at university

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4 w. ago REVEALED: The inspiring lives of the talented McCann twins who grew up in the shadow of their missing big sister Maddie

May is an especially heart-wrenching month for Kate and Gerry McCann, as last Saturday marked 18 years since their daughter, Madeleine, disappeared from her bed in a holiday Portuguese resort.

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