News agencies are often seen as stepping stones to bigger careers, but for Shantanu Guha Ray, who had already worked for some of the biggest names in the business, working for an agency meant freedom to do the stories he wanted. Shantanu was, until his death last weekend, the New…
A woman in Iran has been whipped 74 times for not wearing a hijab in the street. Photo shows Roya Heshmati, a vocal critic of the compulsory hijab, undated. The Iranian woman lashed 74 times for not wearing a hijab on the street. (Newsflash) Roya Heshmati, a Kurdish-Iranian woman and…
A man who stabbed a doctor and her teenage daughter to death could be released after 52 years behind bars after a court ruled he is too old to want sex. Picture shows Klaus Braunig, 78, in prison in Diez, Germany, in 2023. He confessed to the murders of paediatrician…
A grieving dad whose son was shot dead at point-blank range close to an anti-regime demonstration has been snatched from his home by security forces in Iran. Komar Daroftadeh poses in an undated photo. He was allegedly shot dead in the Kurdish city of Piranshahr, Iran, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022.…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlmEuclJ0Rg This clip shows Fluffy the robot vacuum cleaner making a break for freedom from a shop in Austria, prompting a social media appeal to find the rogue device. The funny scene was filmed at a store in the quarter of Mostviertel in the Austrian state of Lower Austria on…
