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• Terry Reed, precedentemente condannato per aver abusato sessualmente di altri due minori, potrebbe essere incarcerato per 40 anni. • Un pastore religioso di una zona suburbana di New Orleans è stato condannato per abusi sessuali contro due minori; si tratta del terzo caso in cui quest'uomo, definito «il peggior tipo di predatore», è stato giudicato colpevole di aver abusato di adolescenti. • Terry Reed, 66 anni, ha citato versetti biblici e scritture per «manipolare, normalizzare e giustificare il proprio comportamento sessuale» con le due vittime al centro del più recente caso contro di lui, secondo una dichiarazione dei procuratori dello stato della Louisiana.

• La North Carolina High School Athletic Association ha approvato due nuovi sport varsity — il flag football femminile e la pallavolo maschile — con effetto a partire dalla stagione 2026-2027. • Entrambi gli sport hanno guadagnato popolarità nelle scuole superiori di tutto il paese, e gli eventi del campionato saranno ospitati dalla NCHSAA a partire da subito. • La decisione del consiglio riflette la crescente domanda di opportunità atletiche inclusive in termini di genere ed amplia le opzioni di partecipazione per gli student-atleti in North Carolina.

• Jordan Linden condannato a 18 mesi per una serie di reati commessi nell'arco di 10 anni, tra il 2011 e il 2021 • Un ex leader del consiglio SNP è stato condannato a 18 mesi di prigione dopo essere stato dichiarato colpevole di una serie di reati sessuali contro giovani uomini e adolescenti a partire dai 14 anni. • Jordan Linden, un tempo considerato una stella nascente dell'SNP, è stato condannato per cinque aggressioni sessuali su giovani uomini a seguito di un processo presso il tribunale di Falkirk nel mese di marzo, durante il quale è emerso che l'SNP aveva "minimizzato o ignorato" le denunce riguardanti il suo comportamento.

In base alle nuove linee guida, la canna sarà utilizzata nelle scuole solo per gli studenti maschi di età pari o superiore ai nove anni. • Gli studenti maschi che bullizzano gli altri, incluso il cyberbullismo, dovranno affrontare la punizione con la canna come "ultima risorsa" secondo le nuove linee guida introdotte a Singapore. • Gli studenti maschi potranno ricevere fino a tre colpi di canna secondo le nuove norme, discussi in parlamento martedì. Continua a leggere...

Nominations also include recognitions for actors including Nathan Lane and Luke Evans while stars such as Lea Michele and Ayo Edebiri were snubbedThe Lost Boys and Schmigadoon! lead this year’s Tony nominations with 12 nods each.The original musicals, based on the 80s vampire movie and cancelled Apple TV comedy respectively, will face off against each other in the category of original musical up against Titanique and Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York). Continue reading...

• Dallas Cowboys' first-round draft pick signed his rookie contract on May 3, as tracked in the 2026 NFL free agency updates. • The deal, worth an estimated $35 million over four years, resolves a key holdout amid offseason roster building. • This signing bolsters Dallas' defense, pairing the rookie with stars like Micah Parsons for Super Bowl contention.

Teacher at Marist College Ashgrove claims she suffered ‘serious psychiatric injury’ after the schoolyard incidentGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA teacher at one of Brisbane’s top private boys’ schools has claimed she was subject to a “culture of misogyny” after being surrounded by hundreds of Catholic school students and pelted with food in an incident that left her with a “serious psychiatric injury”.A barrister acting for Victoria Sparrow, a teacher at Marist College Ashgrove, told the Brisbane supreme court that the school allowed a culture of misogyny to “develop and exist”. Continue reading...

Relatives of London pupils and German villagers mark anniversary of ‘English misfortune’ that Nazis turned into propaganda coupOn 17 April 1936, the bells of St Laurentius church in the Black Forest rang out to guide to safety a group of London schoolboys trapped in deep snow on a mountain hike gone very wrong. Ninety years on to the day, as the bells sounded again, there was hardly a dry eye in the congregation of British relatives and German villagers remembering the night that had brought together their parents and grandparents.The people of Hofsgrund risked their lives heading out with sledges and lanterns in the deadly weather to rescue the party of 27 and their teacher after two boys, fumbling though fog and frozen to the bone, had reached a farmhouse and told its startled inhabitants there were many more of them strewn over the Schauinsland mountain.The Daily Sketch from 20 and 29 April 1936 Continue reading...

The three boys and one of the men were charged with rape while the other man was charged with aiding and abetting a rapeThree boys and two men have been charged over the rape of a teenage girl in Kent, police said.Kent police received reports on Tuesday that a girl had been raped at a private property on Salisbury Road in Gravesend between 25 March and 19 April. Continue reading...

Our wildlife series Young Country Diary is looking for articles written by children, about their spring encounters with natureOnce again, the Young Country Diary series is open for submissions! Every three months we ask you to send us an article written by a child aged 8-14.The article needs to be about a recent encounter they’ve had with nature – whether it’s a marauding toad, a fascinating flower or a garden bird. Continue reading...

The new album draws from the musician’s early childhood memories of growing up in Liverpool and his relationship with Lennon, with musical styles that span his entire career• Alexis Petridis on single Days We Left Behind: ‘As McCartney-esque as possible’Paul McCartney has announced his 18th solo album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane – its title a reference to the route from Liverpool to the Speke shoreline, the area where the former Beatle spent his young childhood.A press release described the 14-track record as McCartney’s most introspective album yet, a “collection of rare and revealing glimpses into memories never-before shared, along with some newly inspired love songs”, presumably about McCartney’s third wife, Nancy Shevell, whom he married in 2011. The musical styles are said to span his entire career, including “Wings-style rock, Beatles-style harmonies, McCartney-style grooves, understated intimacy, melody-driven storytelling, character songs”. Continue reading...

Exclusive: Group says measures to curb harmful content will also help to tackle violence against women and girlsMen and boys need as much protection as women and girls from harmful influencers and “the worst parts of the internet”, a group of MPs have told Ofcom, as they called for the regulator to give specific guidance to online platforms.More than 60 Labour MPs have written to the Ofcom chief executive, Melanie Dawes, urging her to protect men and boys from “manosphere” influencers, who expose them to gambling, sextortion and violent pornography. Continue reading...

Mother, father and brothers aged five and seven shot in their car as they returned from Ramadan shopping tripIsraeli police have killed two young Palestinian brothers and their parents in the occupied West Bank, shooting all four in the head and face as the family returned from a Ramadan shopping trip.Mohammed, five, Othman, seven, who was blind and had special needs, their mother Waad Bani Odeh, 35, and father Ali Bani Odeh, 37, were driving through their hometown of Tamoun late on Saturday when Israeli forces opened fire. Continue reading...