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'Sadistic' paedophile Matthew Falder jailed for 32 years | Crime

Cambridge graduate blackmailed victims over dark web and encouraged rape of child A scientist and university academic described as a warped and sadistic paedophile has been jailed for 32 years after blackmailing a string of vulnerable victims, many teenagers, into carrying out depraved sexual and physical acts.

American Fever by Dur e Aziz Amna review a subversive debut

A spiky teenage heroine from Pakistan brings a fresh perspective to the coming-of-age, coming-to-America novel Two-thirds in to American Fever, Hira, the 16-year-old protagonist, and her friend Zahra both on study exchange schemes from Pakistan are discussing Americanness and American culture. Hiras host family are white, and based in Lakeview, Oregon, while Zahra

Fadias Tree review Palestinian refugees plaintive yearning for a homeland

Portrait of a refugee dreaming of home in a sensitive, sombre documentary that also has thoughts about friendship, politics and birds Artist and film-maker Sarah Beddington makes her feature documentary debut with this record of her friendship with Fadia Loubani, a Palestinian woman in Bourj el-Barajneh in Beirut, one of the 58 UN refugee camps.

George Sewell | Television industry

George Sewell, who has died at the age of 82, was a self-made actor who excelled in strong, sometimes sinister, often shifty, supporting roles. Though he was best known and most at home on television, in series such as Z Cars and Special Branch, he had a solid grounding in the theatre, and in the

Iowa sensation Caitlin Clark drains winner from logo to cap 40-point night | College basketball

Caitlin Clark knew her shot at the buzzer was going in, even though she launched it from the Hawkeyes logo near midcourt. So did her coach. Caitlin has ice in her veins, Iowas Lisa Bluder said. Everybody knows it.