31 h. ago From the outside it looks like a quaint suburban family home but this Colonial

At first glance, this New Jersey colonial-style manor seems like the perfect suburban retreat, but lurking beneath its charming exterior hides a chilling secret.

Society

3 d. ago 90s TV and lad's mag legend Dani Behr's new mum life and career as an estate agent

She was one of Britain's most recognisable faces on our television screens

Politics

4 d. ago The real Scandi noir: how a filmmaker and a crooked lawyer shattered Denmark’s self

The Black Swan follows a repentant master criminal as she sets up corrupt clients in front of hidden cameras. But is she really reformed – and is the director up to his own tricks?The trap was laid in a rented office: two rooms in downtown Copenhagen, furnished without a whisper of Scandi style. If it wasn’t for a Frida Kahlo print on one wall, the premises might have felt as impersonal and stark as a confessional. That, in any event, was what it became. For six months, beginning in mid-2022, a parade of people – members of motorcycle gangs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, real-estate barons, politicians – trooped through to recount their sins to Amira Smajic. They didn’t come for expiation. They knew Smajic to be one of them – an outlaw, and in her particular case, a business lawyer so skilled at laundering money that she’d enabled a couple of billion kroner in financial crime over the previous decade. They called her the Ice Queen, because she showed not a flicker of regret for what she d...

Politics

5 d. ago Joe Rogan weighs in on Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni legal feud with scathing reproach

The ‘Gossip Girl’ alum accused Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment in a lawsuit filed in December

Politics

7 d. ago Dig! XX review – amazing film of battling 90s psych rockers revisited two decades on

Rereleased documentary study of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre is an epic story of success and failureAfter 20 years, Ondi Timoner has rereleased her riveting and colossal documentary study of two psych rock bands, the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and their epic dual story of success and failure. There is about 40 minutes of extra material and a present-day coda that reveals, among other things, that each band has a member who now sells real estate. That ending, brutally and suddenly visiting grey-haired middle age on these gorgeous rock’n’roll exquisites, reminded me of the Fellini-esque dream opening to Woody Allen’s Stardust Memories in which two trains, one carrying life’s winners and the other with hapless losers, wind up at the same dusty rubbish heap.Dig! XX, which took years to shoot, is alternately narrated by the Warhols’ frontman, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, and the BJM’s relentlessly goofy tambourine player, Joel Gion, and it shows the ...

Events

7 d. ago Takeaways from AP's report on sexual misconduct in US statehouses

In an updated report, The Associated Press has cataloged at least 147 state lawmakers in a total of 44 states who have been accused of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct since 2017

Politics

7 d. ago Women hold more statehouse seats than ever. After #MeToo, do they feel any safer?

In an updated report, The Associated Press has cataloged at least 147 state lawmakers in a total of 44 states who have been accused of sexual harassment or sexual misconduct since 2017

Politics

9 d. ago Billionaire's stepson sparks socialite scandal in ugly public break

Nick Hissom, 32, the stepson of billionaire real estate mogul Steve Wynn, sparked uproar after brutally announcing his breakup from longtime partner Kameron Ramirez, 25, on Instagram.

Science

9 d. ago ‘Raped at age of 10’: sexual abuse and harassment reported at 1,664 UK primary schools

Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and rape anonymously reportedWarning: contains content some readers may find distressingChildren and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivors, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to children under the age of nine.Experiences of sexual harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and even forced penetration have been anonymously reported on the site everyonesinvited.uk, with at least one testimonial relating to an incident that took place when the victim was as young as five. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago ‘I was raped at the age of 10’: sexual abuse and harassment reported at 1,664 UK primary schools

Experiences of harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and rape anonymously reportedWarning: contains content some readers may find distressingChildren and adults have anonymously reported testimonies of sexual abuse and harassment at 1,664 primary schools in the UK through a website for survivors, which has called for age-appropriate sex education to be taught to children under the age of nine.Experiences of sexual harassment, groping, inappropriate touching and even forced penetration have been anonymously reported on the site everyonesinvited.uk, with at least one testimonial relating to an incident that took place when the victim was as young as five. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Horror of being accused of sexual harassment as a woman. It happened to 55

One spring morning last year, I'd just got into work when my boss called me into his office. I was greeted by a peculiarly awkward expression on his face and a member of the HR team.

Events

1 week ago Psychologists in touch with Antarctic base after assault allegation, South Africa confirms

Ministers also investigating sexual harassment claim at country’s isolated Sanae IV research stationPsychologists are in “constant” contact with a South African science team isolated for months at a base in Antarctica after physical assault and sexual harassment allegations were made, a government minister has said.The environment minister, Dion George, whose department manages the country’s Antarctic programme, confirmed to the Guardian that psychologists and other experts were in “direct and constant” communication with the nine-member research team. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago Marathon training leaves Lisa McGrillis ‘sore’ not cinched for Rivals return

McGrillis is running the TCS London Marathon on April 27 for the British Heart Foundation with her best friend Mary Cann whose husband died suddenly.

Politics

1 week ago Former CNN anchor Don Lemon says he was sexually harassed ‘by women and men’ at work

Journalist says he didn’t report alleged harassment because he believes power structures are different for men and women

Events

1 week ago ‘It’s helping me build my future’: empowering migrant and refugee families in a London borough of sanctuary

In Islington, a panel of people with migrant and refugee backgrounds is allocating £500,000 in grants to directly help new arrivals who are where they once wereOn a cold morning in the heart of London, recently arrived refugees and more established migrants gather in a community centre. Their mission? To decide how £500,000 in funding will be used to support people like them.The initiative is part of the Borough of Sanctuary grants programme, which takes the government’s commitment to devolution a step further, using it to empower migrants and refugees. Continue reading...

Events

1 week ago UBS blames Credit Suisse acquisition as it delays climate targets

Swiss bank pushed back net zero target from 2025 to 2035, citing ‘enlarged corporate real estate portfolio’

Events

2 w. ago Jack Wilshere on becoming a manager, Mikel Arteta’s influence and the key to making it at Arsenal

Interview: The former England and Arsenal midfielder is relishing his coaching journey at Norwich while also training for this year’s London Marathon while raising money for the British Heart Foundation

Politics

2 w. ago Trump has completely transformed the Oval Office – with gold ‘everywhere’

Luxury real estate mogul has wasted little time in redecorating the White House in his signature style

Politics

2 w. ago Industrial evolution: a designer breathes new life into an old London warehouse

A Grade II-listed former storehouse on the edge of the Thames has become a modern home, but its historic character remains at the heart of its redesignIn the late 18th century, London was one of the busiest ports in the world, the docks in the east bustling with clippers, sailors and porters unloading tea, tobacco, rice, fruit, sugar and wine. It meant that industrial warehouses were thrown up along the banks of the Thames for much-needed storage. Almost two centuries later, only a handful of those Victorian storehouses survive, but those that do have been regenerated, inspired by the renovation of New York’s loft apartments in the 1980s.For South African interior designer Veronique Hopkinson, a historical home – specifically, a warehouse in London – was always on the bucket list. Her riverside apartment in a Grade II-listed warehouse is in Wapping with a balcony that overlooks the Thames. The busy city river traffic includes raucous party cruisers, dredgers and navy patrol boats. W...

Events

2 w. ago ‘We are all Natasha’: senator’s sexual harassment claims roil Nigeria

Treatment of Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, who has been suspended from senate, shines light on women’s rights Last July, Nigeria’s third-most powerful man gave a rare apology on the floor of the senate which he heads.Godswill Akpabio had chastised his colleague Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan for speaking out of turn, saying: “We are not in a nightclub”. But after receiving what he said was a deluge of insulting text messages from Nigerians, he apologised publicly a few days later. Continue reading...

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