Monthly Archives: December 2016

Media captionTake a tour in Banksy’s home town with the organiser of Europe’s largest street art and graffiti festival. Street art is hard to avoid, even if you want to. It creeps along alleyways, blooms across fences, flourishes on flyovers and in underpasses. It’s an age when you can awake in the morning to find […]

How does the current system work? A court order called a family financial order may be imposed in a divorce that requires the payment of money between the former spouses. Most family financial orders are based on what ex-spouses need to meet their day-to-day expenses and the expenses of dependent children. A maintenance payment can […]

(CNN)The Pentagon is demanding that China return an “unlawfully seized” underwater drone after a Chinese warship took the device from waters near a US oceanographic vessel. “We call upon China to return our UUV immediately, and to comply with all of its obligations under international law,” Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said in a statement, […]

Official says drone deployed by American oceanographic vessel in South China Sea was taken by Chinese navy on Thursday The Chinese navy has seized an underwater drone in plain sight of the American sailors who had deployed it in international waters, in a seemingly brazen message to the incoming Trump administration. According to a US […]

This long-awaited film adaptation of the August Wilson play remains stagy, but as a showcase for two towering performances it could hardly be improved Ever since August Wilsons play first premiered 33 years ago, a movie version has been mooted. Soon after it won the Pulitzer back in 1987, Eddie Murphy was lined up to […]

There are parts of that day I was left on the roadside that I cannot recall All I remember of the day I was left on a roadside in Pennsylvania, in 1963, was a hand pulling $20 from his pocket, and my small suitcase. I cant remember who drove me away from the experience@theguardian.com Read […]

“They paid for my laptop, business cards, website that was the kick-start and then the business started to come in.” Startup was founded by Juliet Hope and so far the charity has helped 1,200 women coming out of prison to develop skills they can use in self-employment. More than a quarter of them have set […]

Thousands of students are demanding sanctuary campuses, and some state leaders are warning against it. But the ruckus appears divorced from current legal reality. The Associated Press By Sophie Quinton College students across the country are clamoring for their campuses to be declared sanctuaries, where administrators do all they can to protect students and employees […]

If you’re looking for the location of the “next Flint” water crisis, you might want to head to the countryside.  That’s because small, rural and often poor communities are often served by utilities that either skip required tests for lead contamination in their water or are simply not equipped to properly carry out such testing. […]

(CNN)San Diego homicide detectives are investigating what police say are “suspicious circumstances” surrounding the death of CorePower Yoga founder Trevor Tice. Forty-eight-year-old Tice was found dead inside a multimillion-dollar home in the Sunset Cliffs neighborhood near downtown San Diego on Monday. “Due to the suspicious circumstances related to the death … San Diego Police Homicide […]