Bulgarian authorities are investigating six deaths in two incidents in the country’s northwestern mountains as a suspected murder-suicide case linked to one of the dead, a cave explorer who established himself as a Buddhist spiritual teacher. On Friday, the prosecution…[Continue Reading...]
Schneur Zalman Newfield knows as well as anyone what it takes to leave Orthodoxy. In his new memoir, Brooklyn Odyssey, he likens his transformation from Hasidic to secular to a butterfly’s metamorphosis. “At one stage it is clearly a caterpillar;…[Continue Reading...]
Mathura: Around Monday afternoon, 32-year-old Seema told her father she would come home and take her ailing mother to the doctor. She never did. Now, 60-year-old Brijender is unable to tell his paralysed wife why. In Hathras’s Mandnai village, he…[Continue Reading...]
Hollywood loves a redemption arc, but off-screen it often writes stranger scripts. Since the 1970s, when fringe movements began courting actors in their 30s searching for clarity, celebrity faith has doubled as PR strategy and personal therapy. Pop stars in…[Continue Reading...]
The Louisiana Pentecostal pastor who repeatedly molested a teenage girl told her that her “world would turn upside down” if she ever reported his crimes, she said in a statement on Wednesday in a suburban New Orleans court. Milton Otto…[Continue Reading...]
Three victim-survivors of coercive control have shared their stories to help others spot the signs and act. The Northamptonshire Serious Violence Prevention Partnership (NSVPP) said the "It's Not Love, It's Abuse" campaign - using the words of Anne, Paul and…[Continue Reading...]
A series of murders that shocked the nation and chilling behavioural patterns hiding in plain sight form the heart of a gripping new 7NEWS true crime podcast, set to rewrite how we understand the country’s most dangerous offenders. Launching this…[Continue Reading...]
Paul Mackenzie, a Kenyan self-proclaimed preacher and doomsday cult leader, has been charged by a court in Kilifi County over 52 additional deaths discovered in the village of Kwa Binzaro. The charges come as part of an ongoing investigation into…[Continue Reading...]
Shakahola massacre suspect Paul Nthenge Mackenzie was on Wednesday arraigned at the Shanzu Law Courts alongside seven co-accused to face terrorism-related charges connected to the deaths of 52 people at Kwa Binzaro in Kilifi County. The other accused persons are…[Continue Reading...]
There were 49,557 offences of coercive control recorded by the police in England and Wales in the year ending March 2025, according to domestic abuse charity Women’s Aid. This is an increase from 45,310 in the year ending March 2024.…[Continue Reading...]
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