3 d. ago A ‘YouTube mom’ died after being accused of torturing her kids. Now, her son is going to jail for child sexual abuse

The Hackney brothers were arrested alongside their mother in 2019 after police said they failed to report their parent’s child abuse

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5 d. ago Piglets left to starve as part of a controversial art exhibition in Denmark have been stolen

A controversial Chilean artist who planned to allow three piglets to starve as part of an exhibition in Denmark to raise awareness of the mass meat production processes has had to close the show after the the animals were stolen

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5 d. ago London exhibition explores design based on needs of nature and animals

Curator of Design Museum show says ‘human-centric’ approach to design needs overhaul amid climate crisisDesigners need to “fundamentally rethink our relationship with the natural world”, according to the curator of a new exhibition which argues the needs of nature and animals should be considered when creating homes, buildings and products.Justin McGuirk, the curator of the upcoming More Than Human exhibition at the Design Museum in London, said our current “human-centric” approach to design needs to be radically overhauled as the world adapts to the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Popular Japanese anime producer behind Your Name jailed for child prostitution

Koichiro Ito convicted of paying underage girls for sex and explicit photos

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1 week ago People smuggler who crammed nine migrants including child aged four into van and crossed Channel jailed

Border Force officers stopped Constantin-Florin Pauliuc’s vehicle at the Port of Dover after he arrived in the UK from Calais

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2 w. ago Chris Imler: The Internet Will Break My Heart review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month

(Moli Del Tro/Fun in the Church)Musing on topics as varied as porn, cute animals, war and weed, the Berlin artist’s latest release is as seductive and disorientating as a late-night internet rabbit hole‘I hug strangers, I lose my friends I listen to 100,000 songs,” deadpans Chris Imler on the title track of The Internet Will Break My Heart. The dark underbelly of the internet is the theme behind this record; across its nine tracks, the Berlin-based songwriter and producer flits between topics as varied as porn, cute animals, war and weed with the hasty indifference of someone flicking between apps. It’s a suitably macabre topic for Imler, whose sound is characterised by a strange, nocturnal quality, all chugging instrumentals and monotone chanting.The record draws on Imler’s trusty seedy palette, skulking somewhere in the depths between Krautrock and industrial dance music. But where new interpretations of these genres can often veer towards pastiche, Imler’s approach feels both ref...

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2 w. ago Huw Edwards puffs on vape as he breaks cover after avoiding jail over child abuse images

Disgraced news anchor Huw Edwards was a 'shadow of his former self' as he was seen for the first time after he narrowly avoided jail after pleading guilty to making indecent images of children

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2 w. ago Murderer who stabbed the teenage mother of his child to death in front of horrified commuters at train station is jailed for life

A murderer who stabbed the teenage mother of his child to death in front of horrified commuters at a train station has been jailed for life.

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2 w. ago Dad forces paedophile to dig own grave in woods before persuading him to die

Vyacheslav Matrosov was jailed for inciting a child abuser to kill himself, after he forced the man to dig his own grave in the forest and persuaded him to take his own life

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2 w. ago Mother of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin who was raped and murdered after leaving a beach hut in Goa says she can finally start grieving her child after Indian killer is jailed for life

The 28-year-old was found naked and strangled to death, with her face smashed up by a broken beer bottle, after she had been brutally raped in a secluded spot in Goa, India , in March 2017.

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3 w. ago Mother, 35, who used a child as cover to steal trendy Jellycat toys worth thousands of pounds avoids jail

Ruby Smith, 35, (pictured) hid scores of toys in a pram or concealed them on herself on seven occasions - including three raids at the same garden centre.

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