3 h. ago Noel Clarke had life ‘smashed’ by Guardian misconduct allegations, court told

The actor is suing Guardian News and Media for libel.

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4 h. ago Athol Fugard was a dreamer, listener and master storyteller – on stage and at home | Barney Norris

The South African writer, who has died aged 92, was grateful for his extraordinary life and wrote out of love rather than angerI feel that Athol Fugard and his wife, Paula Fourie, changed my life in the autumn of 2022 when I visited South Africa to spend time with them and their daughter Halle. We were supposed to be working on a book together, and we did; but our time became so much more than that. There were lunches in the house or the restaurant round the corner; walks in the woods; a braai that went on past midnight.Over coffee in the mornings I’d sit with Athol and we’d use an app on his phone to identify the calls of all the birds in the garden. Then he might tell me a story from his life – the awe he felt when he asked Yvonne Bryceland to smash a chair to bits during rehearsals for Antigone and she proceeded to do so for a full 30 minutes; the journey he made by sea at 18 from Cairo to Japan, when an illiterate Somalian sailor used to watch him every night as he wrote a novel...

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8 h. ago Dry cleaning boss is accused of helping wellness guru brother hide £3.8million he siphoned off his wealthy heiress girlfriend

Bahador Amini faces allegations at London's High Court over finances that went missing from multimillionaire socialite Vanessa Wurm, 41.

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16 h. ago Man cut into 27 pieces and dumped at different locations across UK before niece received strange texts

Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, has been accused of murder in Manchester Crown Court after he allegedly cut the body of Stuart Everett, 67, into 27 different pieces after attacking him at the home they shared

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3 d. ago Noel Clarke allegations in Guardian story 'had more holes than a colander', court told

Actor Noel Clarke is suing Guardian News and Media (GNM) over seven articles and a podcast which claimed 20 women had come forward with allegations of misconduct against him

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3 d. ago Noel Clarke has been 'completely exiled from showbiz and perceived as a criminal' after newspaper labelled Dr Who star a sex pest, £70m libel trial hears

The 49-year-old is suing Guardian News and Media over seven articles and a podcast which said 20 women who knew Clarke had come forward with allegations of misconduct.

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3 d. ago Noel Clarke v The Guardian: Actor says career wrecked by 'false' sex abuse allegations as libel trial begins

The Guardian is defending its journalism, and say sexual misconduct against Noel Clarke are ‘true’

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4 d. ago Sudan files case to UN court alleging UAE is breaching genocide convention by funding rebels

Sudan has filed a case at the top United Nations court accusing the United Arab Emirates of breaching the genocide convention by arming and funding the rebel paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces in Sudan’s deadly war

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4 d. ago How MJ the Musical sanitised Michael Jackson’s story: ‘Can we really sit in a theatre and pretend?’

MJ the Musical has already made millions for Jackson’s estate. But as the Broadway hit opens in Australia and the estate prepares to face two of Jackson’s alleged victims in court, fans may ask: is buying a ticket OK?Get our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThere’s a moment in MJ the Musical where the King of Pop tells a prying reporter: “I want to keep this about my music.”Over the last four years, as the jukebox musical has swept through the US, London and Hamburg, netting four Tony awards and more than US$245m to date on Broadway alone, the debate that has followed it has mirrored that which followed the bombshell allegations aired in the Emmy-winning 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland: can we separate Michael Jackson’s impeccable musical legacy from his deeply tarnished public image? Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Neil Gaiman brands rape accuser 'fantasist' and he has WhatsApp messages that prove their relationship was 'consensual'

Neil Gaiman has asked a federal court in Wisconsin to dismiss Scarlett Pavlovich's lawsuit against him, alleging she 'fabricated a tale of abuse' against him and his wife Amanda Palmer.

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4 d. ago Noel Clarke arrives at planned start of his libel trial against Guardian publisher

Actor Noel Clarke arrived at the High Court in London ahead of the start of his libel and data protection trial against the publisher of the Guardian

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4 d. ago Noel Clarke appears at High Court ahead of planned libel trial against the Guardian publisher over sexual misconduct claims

The 49-year-old is suing Guardian News and Media over a series of articles, one of which said 20 women who knew Clarke in a professional capacity had come forward with allegations of misconduct.

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4 d. ago Trio of 'Nazis' who allegedly amassed weapons for terrorist attacks on mosques and synagogues wanted to 'start race war', court told

A court has heard how a trio of 'Nazis' allegedly amassed hoards of weapons in preparation for terror attacks on religious sites which they hoped would 'start a race war'.

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5 d. ago Noel Clarke attends planned start of libel trial against Guardian publisher

Mr Clarke appeared at the Royal Courts of Justice in London on Wednesday.

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5 d. ago Neil Gaiman asks US court to dismiss lawsuit alleging rape and sexual assault

The author’s motion to dismiss argued that the case should be heard in New Zealand, where the alleged abuse took place, and called accuser Scarlett Pavlovich ‘a fantasist’Neil Gaiman has asked a US district court to throw out a civil lawsuit accusing him of rape and sexual assault, filed last month by a woman who previously worked for the author and his former partner, Amanda Palmer.The motion to dismiss, filed on Tuesday, argued that the case should be heard in New Zealand, where the alleged abuse took place, rather than in the US. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Trial of Noel Clarke’s libel claim against The Guardian publisher to begin in London

The Bafta-winning actor is suing Guardian News and Media at the High Court over a series of articles alleging sexual misconduct

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5 d. ago Trial of Noel Clarke’s libel claim against The Guardian publisher due to begin

The actor is suing Guardian News and Media at the High Court in London.

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7 d. ago ‘That’s not me’: Blatter and Platini restate innocence in Swiss fraud case

Pair cleared in 2022 but federal prosecutor appealedFormer Fifa president tells reporters: ‘I am very positive’Sepp Blatter, the former president of Fifa, and Michel Platini, the France great and former president of Uefa, have restated their innocence in relation to allegations of fraud when appearing on Monday in a Swiss court.The pair were cleared of fraud in July 2022 at a lower Swiss court following a seven-year investigation into a payment of 2.2m Swiss francs (£1.7m) from Fifa to Platini with Blatter’s approval in 2011, for consultancy work a decade earlier. The Swiss federal prosecutor has appealed against that decision, leading to a new hearing at the extraordinary appeals chamber of the Swiss criminal court in Muttenz, near Basel. The prosecutor asked for the judgment to be set aside in full. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Russell Brand faces High Court lawsuit over 'sexual abuse' allegation

Russell Brand is being sued in London’s High Court over ‘sexual abuse’

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7 d. ago Billionaire Lambo Guy Adrian Portelli set to face Melbourne court FOUR years after cops allegedly caught him doing burnouts

Billionaire Adrian Portelli is set to take centre stage on Tuesday as he fronts court again over 'hoon' allegations that have been haunting him for more than four years.

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