Monthly Archives: October 2016

As her reimagined version of Shakespeares Tempest is released, the acclaimed author of The Handmaids Tale and Maddaddam talks about how the world of 2016 is starting to look alarmingly like something from one of her books On Thursday, just as Iamsaying goodbye to Margaret Atwood at the end of our interview, Iget a text […]

Ba–Da–Ba–Ba–Bah… nope! If you were already afraid of clowns before America’s Just look at Indian Trail, North Carolina — Police in the suburb outside Charlotte arrested 20-year-old Travis Pressley (seen above) on Sunday when he was caught trespassing on private property covered in clown makeup! Although, the marijuana and hatchet they found in his backpack […]

(CNN)A six-week-old girl died Thursday morning after falling with her mother down an elevator shaft in a Brooklyn, New York, apartment building, according to police. “I heard the lady screaming,” Hopeton Stewart, a building tenant, told CNN affiliate WABC. “I heard her crying and screaming.”

An intruder was shot in the head and a security guard was stabbed in the eye and suffered cuts to his arms The Malibu beach home of

The case of the Scottish wave energy firm Pelamis is the latest to raise questions about China and intellectual property It was once renowned as the home of the four great inventions: paper, gunpowder, printing and the compass. These days, China is more often portrayed as a land of copycats, where you can buy a […]

Man whose son died in attack on funeral in Sanaa hits out at unjust war as kingdom condemned over human rights violations At 25, Sadeq Abdullah Saleh al-Guraizea was close to finishing his education and looking forward to the future. In August, just three months before the end of his masters degree in IT at […]

The singer on an embarrassing moment with Madonna, working in a chip shop and thinking about Christmas in September Born on Merseyside, Chisholm, 42, was a member of When Youre Gone, and in 2000 had a solo number one with Blood Brothers in 2009 and was nominated for an Olivier award. Her seventh solo album, […]

When John Banville embarked on a memoir of the city that shaped his early life, his recollections began to falter. He recounts the journey that led him back to the past Recently I spent a few nights in a New York hotel that I last stayed in a quarter of a century ago. In those […]

(CNN)Brazil has opened up the first sanctuary in Latin America for elephants previously in captivity, an idyllic retreat that could eventually house as many as 50 of the giant animals. Elephant Sanctuary Brazil, in the central Brazilian state of Mato Grosso, was founded by the US-based non-profit organization Global Sanctuary for Elephants, and it already […]