Townshend escapes child porn charges | Digital media

 Posted on April 14, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  572 words  |  Aldo Pusey

Digital mediaTownshend escapes child porn chargesGuitar legend Pete Townshend was today cleared of possessing pornographic images of children, but The Who guitarist was given a formal police caution for accessing a website containing images of child abuse. Townshend was arrested in January on suspicion of making and possessing indecent images of children as part of Operation Ore, an FBI-led crackdown on internet child pornography. After a four-month investigation, London's Metropolitan police said that Townshend " [Read More]

Anton Newcombe: 'I once had a fight involving a hammer and a knife ... luckily I'm quite agile'

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2133 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

30 minutes with …MusicHe's had his fair share of scraps – with New Order, heroin and even his own bandmates. But the Brian Jonestown Massacre maverick is now more concerned with learning to speak GermanHi, Anton. Where are you? In Berlin. I've been living in Europe since 2007. I like it here. If I lived in Brooklyn or Camden, I'd be interacting with more people. Here, I've just got my studio and my thoughts. [Read More]

Chinese teenager found alive in Utah woods after cyber-kidnapping scam | Utah

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  435 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

UtahChinese teenager found alive in Utah woods after ‘cyber-kidnapping scam’Exchange student Kai Zhuang, 17, discovered in tent by police days after being reported missing A Chinese exchange student who fell victim to a “cyber-kidnapping” scam, in which his parents were extorted for $80,000, was found alive but “cold and scared” in a tent in the Utah wilderness, police said. Kai Zhuang, 17, was reported missing on Thursday after his parents in China told officials at his host high school in Riverdale, Utah, that he appeared to have been kidnapped and a ransom had been demanded. [Read More]

Former UFC champion Jon Jones avoids jail over car accident | UFC

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  167 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

UFC This article is more than 8 years oldFormer UFC champion Jon Jones avoids jail over car accidentThis article is more than 8 years oldFighter given up to 18 months probationPleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accidentThe former UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones has avoided a jail sentence after pleading guilty to leaving the scene of an accident in April. Nick Diaz's five-year ban for weed is master stroke of outdated thinkingRead moreAuthorities say Jones ran from the scene of a crash in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that left a pregnant woman with a broken arm, and then quickly returned to grab a handful of cash from his rental car. [Read More]

In Iraq, religious pleasure marriages are a front for child prostitution | Iraq

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1463 words  |  Kary Bruening

The ObserverIraq This article is more than 4 years oldIn Iraq, religious ‘pleasure marriages’ are a front for child prostitutionThis article is more than 4 years oldBBC investigation exposes Shia clerics in Baghdad advising men on how to abuse girlsI’m walking through the security cordon that leads into Kadhimiyah, one of Shia Islam’s holiest sites. I’m in a queue, along with dozens of pilgrims who have come from all over the world to pay their respects to the shrine of Imam Kadhim. [Read More]

Kosovo zoo rescue lion and bears come out to play in winter snow | Animals

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  2 minutes  |  331 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Animals This article is more than 1 month oldKosovo zoo rescue lion and bears come out to play in winter snowThis article is more than 1 month oldSanctuary sets up heaters to take chill off rescue animals that have lost habit of entering full hibernation Workers at a bear sanctuary in Pristina are working hard to look after a lion that wants to play in the snow and bears who were removed from their natural habitat when they were cubs and also enjoy the snowy conditions because they do not hibernate any more. [Read More]

Low-rise waistlines: the return of Y2Ks most debauched trend

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  7 minutes  |  1304 words  |  Valentine Belue

JeansUntil now, the 00s revival seemed like harmless fun. Then stars including Dua Lipa and Julia Fox began wearing the era’s trickiest, most controversial look Low-rise blue-denim jeans were to 00s nightlife what gladiators’ loincloths were to those at the Colosseum in ancient Rome. Two thousand years ago, half-naked young men were thrust into a public arena to do battle with lions for the entertainment of the watching masses. Fast-forward two millennia and it was Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan being thrown to the wolves. [Read More]

Nestl pays $200 a year to bottle water near Flint where water is undrinkable | Michigan

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2239 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

A mural painted by Antonio Cosme, one of two Detroit artists who went to trial for painting “Free the Water” on one of Detroit’s water towers. Photograph: Garrett MacLean/The GuardianWhile Flint battles a water crisis, just two hours away the beverage giant pumps almost 100,000 times what an average Michigan resident uses into plastic bottles by Jessica Glenzain Detroit, MichiganGina Luster bathed her child in lukewarm bottled water, emptied bottle by bottle into the tub, for months. [Read More]

Portland Thorns trainer fired for giving players controlled substance | NWSL

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  864 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

NWSL This article is more than 11 months oldPortland Thorns trainer fired for giving players controlled substanceThis article is more than 11 months oldPierre Soubrier gave substance to players without prescriptionThorns assistant coach also fired for unwanted contactThe husband of US women’s team defender Crystal Dunn illegally distributed a controlled substance to Portland Thorns players in his role as the team’s athletic trainer, the National Women’s Soccer League announced following an outside investigation. [Read More]

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at 60: the great American western

 Posted on April 13, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1048 words  |  Valentine Belue

WesternsJohn Ford’s 1962 masterwork remains a surprisingly downbeat film about the west with never-better performances from James Stewart and John Wayne “This is the west sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” The famous line uttered by a newspaperman in John Ford’s masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance symbolizes the mythological west that he and his most famous collaborator, John Wayne popularized. At 60 years old, it is the greatest western of Hollywood’s Golden Age, even usurping Ford’s own The Searchers that has always clambered its way near the top of greatest film lists. [Read More]