15 h. ago Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie

Monochrome catering was all the rage at the VIP screening on Saturday for Ratner’s officially sanctioned $75m feature-length documentary about the First Lady. Have the photos whetted your appetite? This week sees the release of Melania, Amazon’s official feature-length documentary about Melania Trump. Melania was directed by Brett Ratner, and has a reported $40m production budget. And, obviously, you’re probably not going to watch it.Of course you’re not. Coming days after the killing of Alex Pretti by a US Border Patrol agent, an authorised vanity project about the current wife of a globally unpopular political leader – and directed by a man accused of sexual assault by multiple women (which he denies), and whose production and release carried the smell of institutionalised media timidity – seems like just about the least appealing prospect ever. But, hey, any excuse for a party, right? Continue reading...

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47 h. ago TikTok star Ko Tin Zaw Htwe found beaten to death in Thai forest as suspect arrested

Ko Tin Zaw Htwe, 25, was found with severe trauma consistent with being struck by a hard object in Mae Sot forest, Thailand. Police have arrested a suspect in connection with his death

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54 h. ago Husband of Newport Beach socialite who was found dead at bottom of 75 foot embankment arrested

Aryan Papoli grew up in Iran and moved to the U.S. at 18, where she met her husband, Gordon Abas Goodarzi, and co-founded the clean energy company U.S. Hybrid

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56 h. ago Husband of Newport Beach socialite was found dead at bottom of 75 foot embankment arrested

Aryan Papoli grew up in Iran and moved to the U.S. at 18, where she met her husband, Gordon Abas Goodarzi, and co-founded the clean energy company U.S. Hybrid

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3 d. ago Solicitor, 63, is accused of stalking legal blogger and making unwanted sexual advances

Andrew Milne, 63, is said to have sent the writer numerous unwanted sexualised messages including one which read: 'If you agree to be my total sex slave I will let you live in the garage'.

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3 d. ago Spanish prosecutors drop sexual assault complaint against Julio Iglesias

Court says alleged abuse and trafficking offences occurred outside Spain, leaving it without jurisdictionSpanish prosecutors have shelved a complaint brought by two women who have accused the singer Julio Iglesias of sexual assault and human trafficking, arguing the country’s courts have no jurisdiction as the alleged offences took place outside Spain.Two female former employees who worked at Iglesias’s Caribbean mansions 10 days ago accused the veteran entertainer of sexual assault, saying they had been subjected “to inappropriate touching, insults and humiliation in an atmosphere of control and constant harassment”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Rochdale 'grooming gang' trial collapsed after jurors set up a WhatsApp group to discuss the case

The jury at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court was hearing the case of six men accused of rape and other sexual offences against two teenage schoolgirls between 2003 and 2006.

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3 d. ago Indian woman arrested after death of man she accused of sexual harassment on bus

Police say woman has been charged with abetment of suicide after her video of bus incident went viral

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4 d. ago Chris Noth reveals what led to 'hurtful' friendship fallout with Sarah Jessica Parker after taking wild dig at SATC star

Chris Noth said he felt abandoned by Sex and the City costar Sarah Jessica Parker after he was accused of sexual assault by multiple women in late 2021.

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5 d. ago Afghan woman, 22, 'faces death by stoning' after being arrested for teaching girls taekwondo, activists fear

Khadija Ahmadzada, 22, was arrested by Taliban'morality' forces on January 10 after they discovered she was defying the ban on women playing sport.

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5 d. ago Boys, aged 15 and 16, are arrested on suspicion of murder after 15

Surrey Police were called to Lido Road in Guildford, Surrey, at 6.10pm on Monday where the victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

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6 d. ago Four people arrested for using ‘variety of weapons’ to beat a man to death on the patio of a pizza restaurant 20 years ago

Chula Vista police made a plea for the public’s assistance last year to help solve the cold-case killing

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6 d. ago Russell Brand appears in court via videolink from US charged with further sex offences

The comedian and actor is accused of one further count of rape and one of sexual assaul, both alleged to have taken place in 2009

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6 d. ago South African authorities revise death toll in school bus crash to 12 as driver is arrested

South African authorities have revised the death toll in a school bus crash to 12 children and announced the driver has been arrested and will face criminal charges

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6 d. ago Man, 39, arrested on suspicion of murder after grandmother, 68, dies from stab wound in her neck in quiet village

A MAN has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a grandmother was stabbed to death in her quiet countryside cottage. Gilly Livie, 68, was found with a stab wound to her neck after emergency crews were scrambled to her home in Cheriton, Hampshire, on January 9. Medics battled to save the grandmother's life but...

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7 d. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after a grandmother, 68, was stabbed to death in her thatched cottage

Gilly Livie, 68, was discovered with a knife wound in her neck after emergency services raced to her home in Cheriton, Hampshire, at 10.30am on January 9.

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7 d. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after grandmother, 68, was stabbed to death in her thatched cottage

Gilly Livie, 68, was found seriously injured with a stab wound in her neck by paramedics and police officers at her home in Cheriton, Hampshire, at 10.30am on January 9.

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7 d. ago Ansel Elgort quietly welcomes first baby amid return to film: report

‘West Side Story’ actor has largely remained out of the spotlight after he was accused of sexual assault in 2020

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9 d. ago ‘Brainwashing’: the shocking case of a Native American healer accused of sexual abuse

Nathan Chasing Horse, who had part in Dances with Wolves, accused in trial that spotlights influence of ‘medicine men’After learning she was of Lakota descent around 1996, Melissa Leone, who was adopted, hungered to connect to her Native American tribe.“I was grabbing a hold of any and all connections that felt good or safe,” she said. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago 'Lovely lady' stabbed to death in cottage pictured as man arrested in probe

Gilly Livie, 68, was found seriously injured with a stab wound to the neck at her cottage and tragically died.

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