Crime British fugitive Andrew Terence Moran captured in Spain – video One of Britain's most wanted men has been caught by police during a dramatic swoop on a villa in Calipe on the Costa Blanca. Moran fled a courtroom in 2009 during his trial for the armed robbery of a Royal Mail van that netted £25,000 cash Source: Reuters
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How we madePop and rock‘I still had my old job when it went to No 1. There were women chasing me across the factory floor’
Ray Dorset, singer, songwriterI still had a day job at a laboratory when the melody for In the Summertime entered my head. The lyric took 10 minutes to write. When I was young, my family always went to Hayling Island, in Hampshire, for holidays; great affairs with about 20 of us.
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Gunmen assumed to be linked to Mexico's drug cartels have assassinated a leading politician who was almost certain to win a forthcoming governorship election in the embattled northern state of Tamaulipas, sending shockwaves through national politics.
KurdsFears Turkey’s ‘culture centre’ plan for Diyarbakır military prison could whitewash history Altan Tan was 24 when Diyarbakır’s notorious Military Prison No 5 was built, just before Turkey’s 1980 military coup. Not long after that, his father was thrown inside, never to emerge.
“He was only there for a few weeks before he was tortured to death. I never had the chance to go inside and visit him,” the Kurdish politician and writer said.
Texas This article is more than 5 months oldTexas jury orders man to pay ex-girlfriend $1.2bn in revenge porn caseThis article is more than 5 months oldWoman said ex-boyfriend conducted campaign to spread intimate photos of her online without her consent
A man who harassed his ex-girlfriend online – including by sharing intimate photos of her on social media – must pay her $1.2bn in damages, a Texas jury has ordered.
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Life and styleGardeners and collectors have shared cuttings for generations, but as certain plants have become status symbols, questions of ethical grey areas have arisen
In December, Cory Jarrell of Portland, Oregon, posted a photo he never imagined he would have to share with his 16,000 Instagram followers: loose, limp cuttings of plants, pinched off without permission from over a dozen rare plants.
Jarrell’s specialty plant shop, Potted Elephant, had suffered a fate experienced by a small but growing number of nurseries, shops and botanical gardens in the wake of the booming specialty plant market: unscrupulous collectors and sellers pilfering cuttings (and sometimes, entire plants) without permission in order to resell online and net a profit.