Monthly Archives: October 2016

‘Wild and free’: No TV, no computers, no smartphones

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

(CNN)Photographer Niki Boon and her husband, Rob, decided to home-school their four children when they moved to a rural region of New Zealand five years ago. But sitting around the table and learning didn’t go quite the way they expected. “It’s not that we don’t want them to have any access to it, it’s just […]


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Prince fans to get brief peek inside Paisley Park

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

(CNN)Paisley Park, the home and recording studio of Prince, will open to the public this week. But let’s not go crazy — the venue will be welcoming guests for a very limited time. Photos: Through the years Timeline of his life Prince’s most iconic moments Celebrities pay tribute ‘Purple Rain’ and Prince gems Fans react […]


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Ben Needham search: Grandfather visits Kos search site – BBC News

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

Read more about this story and others from across Sheffield and South Yorkshire Det Insp Jon Cousins, who is leading the investigation, said: “I want the experts who are here to have a good understanding of his [Mr Needham’s] recollections around the day and the days after Ben’s disappearance. “It is a very difficult time […]


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Why The Girl on the Train heralds the return of the Hitchcockian thriller

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

The spirit of Alfred Hitchcock has returned to push filmgoers back to the edge of their seats with the release of a set of suspenseful new films but why does Hollywood keep returning to his template? Few things would please Alfred Hitchcock more than the idea that, 36 years after his death, he is somehow […]


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German man ‘imprisoned by parents for 30 years’

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

Neighbours raised alarm after hearing 43-year-old moaning at house in Freienfels, Bavaria A 43-year-old German man has been rescued from a house in Bavaria after apparently having been held in isolation by his parents for the past three decades. German prosecutors are investigating the mans parents on charges ranging from assault to neglect and false […]


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DOJ: Government contractor stole secret intelligence

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

Washington (CNN)A government contractor was arrested in August for allegedly stealing top secret intelligence, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday. According to a criminal complaint, Harold Thomas Martin III, 51, was charged with theft of government property and unauthorized removal and retention of classified materials by a government employee or contractor after searches of his […]


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Donald Trump’s Atlantic City finances tell story of business losses

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

(CNN)As the Republican presidential nominee faces mounting scrutiny over his income taxes and his refusal to release them, the public has no definitive accounting about what Donald Trump did or did not pay the government. But the story of his business losses is in plain sight throughout the 1980s and the 1990s, a period, in […]


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NSA contractor arrested for alleged theft of top secret classified information

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

Harold Thomas Martin, who worked at same consulting firm as Edward Snowden, may have stolen codes developed to hack foreign governments The FBI has arrested a National Security Agency contractor on suspicion of the theft of top secret classified data and documents in an alleged security breach at the same intelligence agency whose spy secrets […]


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Hurricane Matthew: Floridians urged to hurry preparations as storm approaches

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 6, 2016

Governor Rick Scott: Our number one priority is protecting lives as storm threatens to be first major hurricane to make US landfall since 2005 Officials urged residents along Floridas east coast to rush emergency preparations to completion late on Wednesday as deadly Hurricane Matthew, one of the most powerful storms in recent history, bore down […]


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Looming megadroughts in western US would make current drought look minor

Posted by John P. Bradford // October 5, 2016

Warming temperatures and uncertain rainfall mean if more isnt done to slow climate change, droughts lasting 35 years could blight western states, study says The harsh drought currently gripping California may appear trivial in the future as new research shows that the south-west US faces the looming threat of megadroughts that last for decades. California […]


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