Pennsylvania woman charged with pregnant woman's murder after cutting baby from womb | US news
US newsPennsylvania woman charged with pregnant woman's murder after cutting baby from wombA woman in Pennsylvania has been charged with murder after she was
alleged to have drugged a pregnant woman, cut her baby from her womb and tried to pass the child off as her own.
Andrea Curry-Demus, 38, is alleged to have used a "very sharp
instrument" to rip out the baby while the mother may still have been
Some Old Black Man review Wendell Pierce and Charlie Robinson are riveting
Lockdown cultureTheatreReviewAvailable online
Intergenerational racism is explored in James Anthony Tyler’s gripping play, as a son and his father try to find a way to live together
An ageing father has just moved into his son’s apartment. We meet them at breakfast – the capable son cooks, the ailing father crabs at him and their tone hovers between light and dark as they bicker, sing and reminisce.
Donald (Charlie Robinson), 82 and too ill to live on his own, is a former taxi driver from Mississippi.
Stock of British electric moped brand Zapp hits skids months after US listing
Motoring This article is more than 2 months oldThis article is more than 2 months oldThe company has lost much of its value after market scepticism about startups’ prospects
The future of the British brand Zapp looked promising as its top team gathered around one of its electric mopeds and stared up at a billboard bearing its logo close to Times Square, New York, in May. They threw their arms aloft as they marked the six-year-old company’s listing on the Nasdaq stock exchange, in a deal valuing it at $573m (£467m).
Take it from someone he abused: Terry Richardson is a predator with a camera | Jamie Peck
OpinionTerry Richardson This article is more than 9 years oldTake it from someone he abused: Terry Richardson is a predator with a cameraThis article is more than 9 years oldJamie PeckCall me crazy, but allegations of sexual harassment are a little more important than a magazine's investigation of the famously perverted photographer's everyday life
The other day, I woke up to find several sexually explicit photos of myself in my inbox.
10 of the best: Christmas soul and funk | Music
10 of the bestMusic10 of the best: Christmas soul and funkJust because it’s Christmas doesn’t mean you have to roll out the Slade. Try these yuletide floorfillers for size
1. Clarence Carter – Back Door SantaAt first glance, the inherent cheesiness of a Christmas record ought not to sit well with funk musicians, typically obsessed (as they tend to be perceived) with making music that is fuelled by passion, intensity and emotion.
A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe review inside the hidden world of embalming
The ObserverFictionReviewThe 1966 Aberfan disaster triggers flashbacks a young man has tried to suppress in a thoughtful debut novel that offsets tragedy with uplift
Time’s passing has done little to dim the horror of the 1966 Aberfan disaster, in which thousands of tonnes of coal waste thundered down a mountainside and engulfed a Welsh junior school. The sentiments it so powerfully evokes inform the opening of Jo Browning Wroe’s debut novel, A Terrible Kindness, which begins as hope of finding survivors dwindles.
Connecticut's wealthy Gold Coast: where life is good, if you can afford it
ConnecticutRecession? What recession? Bridgeport, Stamford and Norwalk – just outside New York City – have the densest concentration of wealth in the country, and the last few years have been goodJack Condlin, the cheerfully verbose president of Stamford's chamber of commerce, was not shocked when it was revealed this week that his city lies at the heart of the richest stretch of land in America.
"Surprised? Not at all," he said, when asked about a US Census Bureau survey that showed that almost a fifth of households in this swath of coastline in south-west Connecticut are officially "
French justice minister devastated after son reportedly arrested | France
France This article is more than 11 months oldFrench justice minister ‘devastated’ after son reportedly arrestedThis article is more than 11 months oldEric Dupond-Moretti’s son Raphael ‘detained’ in ski resort of Courchevel on suspicion of domestic violence
France’s justice minister has said he is “devastated” after his son was reportedly detained in an upmarket ski resort on suspicion of domestic violence.
“As a father, I’m devastated,” Eric Dupond-Moretti told reporters. “My thoughts are for the victim.
Guard that property! Our reaction to Chris Evans' nudes reveals the remarkable power of Captain Amer
Chris Evans This article is more than 3 years oldGuard that property! Our reaction to Chris Evans' nudes reveals the remarkable power of Captain AmericaThis article is more than 3 years oldStuart HeritageThe world has been strikingly kind to the ex-Avenger after he accidentally shared a photo of his penis with the rest of the universe So now we know why Captain America travelled back in time at the end of Avengers: Endgame.
In love's labyrinth
RereadingBooksReviewThe mini-epic poem Catullus 64 begins with the story of Jason and the Argonauts but confounds all expectations. For Charlotte Higgins, it is one of the greatest works of literature ever writtenIf you were lucky enough to read Latin at school the chances are you will remember a bit of Catullus: the best thing by far about the slog of amo, amas, amat is that you get to read, after just a year or two, what one Latin teacher described to me as "