Kate Cox case: what led to the Texan fleeing the state for an abortion?

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  700 words  |  Kary Bruening

AbortionExplainerTexas mother sued to obtain procedure after learning of non-viable pregnancy, but state supreme court overruled decision A Texas woman fled her home state to obtain an abortion after Texas’s top court ruled last week that she cannot terminate her non-viable pregnancy despite risks to her life and future fertility. What was the Kate Cox case about?Earlier this month, Kate Cox, a 31-year-old mother of two young children, sued to obtain an abortion after learning that her fetus has trisomy 18, a fatal chromosomal condition, as well as other health issues, including a spinal abnormality. [Read More]

Sarina Wiegman should be paid the same as Gareth Southgate for England job | Sarina Wiegman

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1084 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Sarina Wiegman This article is more than 5 months oldSarina Wiegman should be paid the same as Gareth Southgate for England jobThis article is more than 5 months oldSuzanne Wrack in SydneyThe FA’s chief executive claims the Lionesses manager can have ‘whatever she wants’. But that’s not true in one important regard When Mark Bullingham was asked whether it was time Sarina Wiegman had a statue, a relaxed Football Association chief executive said with a smile: “She can have whatever she wants, she’s incredible. [Read More]

Telesup schools fake facade called a symbol of Peruvian university system | Peru

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  447 words  |  Kary Bruening

Peru This article is more than 4 years oldTelesup school’s fake facade called ‘a symbol of Peruvian university system’This article is more than 4 years oldEducation inspectors revealed the university had failed to get accreditation, prompting the state to order a shutdown From the street, the newest site of the Telesup university in Lima appeared to be a gleaming, glass-fronted 7-story tower. Inside, however, students were surprised to find the stairs only reached the fourth floor. [Read More]

What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott review breakup thriller

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  510 words  |  Kary Bruening

The ObserverCrime fictionReviewStephanie Scott’s assured debut retells the true story of a Japanese man paid to seduce a married woman Can you truly love someone and kill them? This was the question that spurred the Singaporean-British author Stephanie Scott to write her debut novel. She was inspired by a real case in Japan, where a man employed to break up a marriage – a wakaresaseya – was convicted of murdering the woman he had been paid to seduce. [Read More]

Yield to the Night review unforgettable death-row drama starring Diana Dors

 Posted on June 17, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1016 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Drama filmsReviewHarrowing prison scenes transfigure this gripping 1956 story of a woman awaiting execution for murder, written just before the hanging of Ruth Ellis J Lee Thompson’s gripping capital punishment drama Yield to the Night from 1956 gets a re-release: a Brit noir classic and a unique career achievement for Diana Dors as Mary Hilton, a woman awaiting execution for murder. The events leading up to Mary’s crime are intercut with her jail ordeal, attended by female wardens or “matrons” in the brightly lit cell, whose lights can never be dimmed because of suicide-watch surveillance. [Read More]

A history of cannibalism | Richard Sugg

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  850 words  |  Valentine Belue

OpinionWorld news This article is more than 12 years oldA history of cannibalismThis article is more than 12 years oldRichard SuggHistorically, visitors to cannibal tribes often seem to have been safe – like the mafia, such people usually only killed their ownThe death of German sailor Stefan Rami has prompted sudden interest in the remote Polynesian island of Nuku Hiva. Prompted by the past cannibalistic traditions of Melanesia and Polynesia, authorities suspect that Rami's local guide, Henri Haiti, not only murdered him, but ate him before burning his body. [Read More]

Andrew Garfield: I never compromised who I was | Andrew Garfield

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2632 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Andrew Garfield. Photograph: Brian W Ferry for Mrporter.comAndrew Garfield. Photograph: Brian W Ferry for Mrporter.comAndrew GarfieldInterviewAndrew Garfield: ‘I never compromised who I was’Stephanie RafanelliThe actor formerly known as Spider-Man is back with a bang, playing the spiritual lead in films by Martin Scorsese and Mel Gibson At the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s new film, Silence, held at the Vatican, Pope Francis joked that its star, Andrew Garfield, deserved to be ordained. [Read More]

Black Panther star Letitia Wright: Since Chad died Im so afraid to lose people | Letitia Wr

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  19 minutes  |  3840 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Photograph: Christina Ebenezer/The GuardianLetitia Wright was a rising star of British indie films before Chadwick Boseman handpicked her for the Marvel blockbuster. She talks about his death – and how she turned her life around by Simon HattenstoneElvis! Hey Elvis!” Letitia Wright calls enthusiastically. A waiter walks over. “Elvis is my friend. Elvis, Simon. Simon, Elvis.” Elvis and I introduce ourselves, and he takes my order. Wow, what a coincidence, I say to Wright – a friend of yours working here. [Read More]

Killer known as Clifton rapist, 82, sexually assaulted woman after release | Crime

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  626 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Crime This article is more than 2 months oldKiller known as ‘Clifton rapist’, 82, sexually assaulted woman after releaseThis article is more than 2 months oldRon Evans, who spent more than 50 years in prison, assaulted woman he befriended at drop-in centre after he was freed in 2018 A killer and rapist who spent more than half a century in prison before being released by the Parole Board has been convicted of carrying out a further sexual assault at the age of 81. [Read More]

Memorial by Alice Oswald review

 Posted on June 16, 2024  |  3 minutes  |  620 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

The ObserverPoetryReviewThe lives of 200 soldiers are brilliantly remembered in this majestic poetic reworking of Homer's IliadAlice Oswald made her name with a book-length poem: Dart. A tribute to the Devon river made up of her own and other people's voices, it won the 2002 TS Eliot prize. On the face of it, her latest book – an "excavation" of Homer's The Iliad – is not comparable, except that, like Dart, it is an extended homage. [Read More]