14 h. ago Aristocrat and partner told off for ‘disrupting’ sentencing over baby death

Constance Marten and Mark Gordon are being sentenced over the death of their child.

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14 h. ago Mother deemed 'safe' despite dropping young daughter into a bear's enclosure 'stabs the child to death'

Zilola Tulyaganova, 34, was filmed dropping her helpless child, Zarina, then aged three, some 16ft into a trench inside the cage in Tashkent Zoo in 2022.

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9 d. ago Jim Jarmusch’s Father Mother Sister Brother, starring Cate Blanchett, surprise winner of Venice Golden Lion

The Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing account of a Palestinian child’s death in Gaza, won the runner-up Silver LionUS indie director Jim Jarmusch unexpectedly won the coveted Golden Lion at the Venice film festival on Saturday with Father Mother Sister Brother, a three-part meditation on the uneasy tie between parents and their adult children.Although his gentle comedy received largely positive reviews, it had not been a favourite for the top prize, with many critics instead tipping the Voice of Hind Rajab, a harrowing true-life account of the killing of a five-year-old Palestinian girl during the Gaza war. In the end, the film directed by Tunisia’s Kaouther Ben Hania took the runner-up Silver Lion. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Sister, 17, charged with 'torturing' brother, 8, to death breaks silence from jail as dad details boy's horrific injuries

Kara Walker, 17, and her boyfriend Nolan Stallings, 18, were arrested in connection to Charles Walker's death and charged with felony injury to a child.

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2 w. ago Boy, 11, shot dead after ‘ding dong ditch’ prank goes horribly wrong

The child’s fatal shooting in Houston is at least the second death in the U.S. this year linked to the prank

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2 w. ago Palestinians warned of a genocide in 2023. Why weren’t we believed? | Ahmed Ibsais

Western academics now speak of ‘genocide’ with newfound authority. Why weren’t our voices enough?Today I watched those children again, the ones who stood before the cameras at al-Shifa hospital on 7 November 2023. They spoke in English, not their mother tongue, but the language of those who they thought might save them.“We want to live, we want peace, we want to judge the killers of children,” one boy said. “We want medicine, food and education. We want to live as the other children live.”How holy their concern now sounds, rising over a land emptied of the living.As if starving a child pre-disposed to death makes the violence more justified?Ahmad Ibsais is a first generation Palestinian American, law student and poet who writes the newsletter State of Siege Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Meghan Markle's 'sentimental nod' to daughter Lilibet revealed in With Love wardrobe which includes pieces from Carolina Herrera and Veronica Beard

The trailer for With Love, Meghan gives a glimpse into the Duchess' on-screen wardrobe, which includes luxurious pieces from Carolina Herrera, Veronica Beard, Heidi Merrick and more.

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3 w. ago Child killer on Death Row took his own life 'saving taxpayers a lot of money'

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A Death Row man has taken his own life after he killed a 13-year-old in 2008 by using a telephone chord in a US motel room, officials say

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3 w. ago India’s top court ordered 1 million stray dogs be removed from the streets. The backlash was immediate

Street dogs are a fixture of nearly every neighbourhood in Delhi, in most cases being fed and cared for by residents. So when the death of a child, apparently from rabies, prompted a court to order that all dogs be rounded up and confined to non-existent ‘shelters’, it sparked mass protests and nationwide debate. Namita Singh reports

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3 w. ago India’s top court ordered one million stray dogs be removed from the streets. The backlash was immediate

Street dogs are a fixture of nearly every neighbourhood in Delhi, in most cases fed and cared for by residents. So when a child’s apparent rabies death sparked a court order that all dogs must be rounded up and confined to non-existent ‘shelters’, it sparked mass protests and nationwide debate. Namita Singh reports from Delhi

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