UPDATE: Gaza Ministry of Health say total of 52 Palestinians killed, more than 1,200 wounded by Israeli fire in Gaza. Eight children under the age of 16 among the dead, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations says. Dozens of Palestinians, including a 14-year-old boy, are among a mounting death toll as ...
A grandmother who is 18th cousin of the Queen is facing being deported to South Africa after she was refused a visa to live in the UK. Brenda Ackerman, 71, traced her family tree back to the 12th Century which revealed her to be a distant relative of King John ...
In April 2000, I read the extraordinary story of hungry American, Kenneth Payne, who was given a 16 year jail term for stealing a one dollar Snickers bar. The American legal system saw him as a serial food thief. The American District Attorney tried Payne as a habitual offender, increasing the severity of a shoplifting ...
There’s a particularly telling scene early on in Ciro Guerra & Cristina Gallego’s riveting Columbian crime saga, Birds of Passage. Two friends are celebrating in a local shanty bar, reaping the rewards of their latest “business deal” – selling dope to members of the American Peace Corps. They raise their ...
Fans of Andrew Niccol will be all too than familiar with the director’s particular brand of Philip K Dick inspired output. From the timeless cult classic Gattaca which is set in a future where people are judged on the strength of their genetic make-up rather than on merit, to the ...
The President chose cheers over tears by stepping into the warm embrace of the NRA rather than tackling gun crime - a decision he should be made to rue Donald Trump’s address to the National Rifle Association convention on Friday was a thoughtless move from a President who has routinely failed to ...
A policeman who had a chunk of his ear bitten off as he searched a thug said there is 'no respect' for the uniform any more as he saw his attacker jailed for seven years. And the judge told Shayhon Francis, he had disgraced his hard-working family as his mother ...
A murder inquiry is underway after a man was shot dead and another injured outside a tube station. Armed cops and paramedics were called to Queensbury tube station in north west London just after 9pm last night (TUES). A man in his 30s found with a critical gun shot wound ...
Today we are demonstrating against the Home Office’s planned secretive mass charter flight deportations to Jamaica and Nigeria. A full amnesty to those who have been criminalised by racist immigration laws is the only way to right a historic wrong. By Karen Doyle, Movement for Justice This weekend we celebrated ...