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Review – Absolute Wonder Woman #8: The Poisoned Tree
Ray: The previous arc by Mattia De Iiuls was a masterstroke, taking us to the underworld for a brilliant flashback tale explaining how Diana got to Man’s World. But now Hayden Sherman is back on art duties, and we’re back to the main story – and there is a lot to get into without delay.…
South African woman sentenced to life for selling six-year-old daughter
Racquel Smith and two others convicted over disappearance of Joshlin Smith, who court heard was sold to traditional healer for ‘eyes and skin’ A South African woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment alongside two accomplices for trafficking her then six-year-old daughter, in a case that gripped South Africa and gained international attention after the…
Mexican woman charged in US with supplying arms to ‘terrorist’ drug cartel
María Del Rosario Navarro, 39, accused of conspiring to provide material support to Jalisco New Generation cartel A 39-year-old woman has become the first Mexican national to be indicted in the United States on charges of providing material support to a cartel designated as a foreign terrorist organization, according to the US Department of Justice.…
Police found a missing woman 60 years after she disappeared. She wants to stay hidden
By Rachel Treisman Six decades after a young mother vanished from her small city in south-central Wisconsin, authorities have found her alive and well living in another state. Audrey Backeberg was 20 years old when she disappeared from Reedsburg in July 1962, according to a bulletin from the Wisconsin Department of Justice. It says the…
British woman, 115, becomes world’s oldest person
A woman from the UK has become the oldest person in the world, at the age of 115 and 253 days. Ethel Caterham, who lives at a care home in Lightwater, Surrey, reached the milestone following the death of Brazilian nun Sister Inah Canabarro Lucas, aged 116 on Wednesday. Ms Caterham was born on 21…
UK Supreme Court rules legal definition of woman is based on biological sex
It marks the culmination of a long-running legal battle which could have major implications for how sex-based rights apply across Scotland, England and Wales. The court sided with campaign group For Women Scotland, which brought a case against the Scottish government arguing that sex-based protections should only apply to people that are born female. Judge…
Tate pointed gun at woman and said to ‘do as I say’, court documents seen by BBC claim
Andrew Tate pointed a gun in a woman’s face and said “you’re going to do as I say or there’ll be hell to pay”, according to one of four UK women suing the influencer and self-proclaimed misogynist. The allegation is described in court documents, seen by the BBC, which also contain detailed accounts of rape,…
Defence secretary meets family of Kenyan woman allegedly killed by British soldiers
Relatives of Agnes Wanjiru say 13-year fight for justice has taken ‘heavy toll’ after meeting with John Healey The family of a Kenyan woman who was allegedly killed by British soldiers have said their 13-year fight for justice has taken a “heavy toll”, and that they have been offered “too many empty promises” after a…
The woman who killed Tejano music icon Selena in 1995 has been denied parole
By The Associated Press HOUSTON — The woman convicted of killing Tejano music legend Selena Quintanilla-Perez has been denied parole after spending decades behind bars for fatally shooting the young singer at a Texas motel in 1995, the state’s parole board announced Thursday. Yolanda Saldívar will continue serving a life sentence at a prison in…
A U.S. airman is charged in death of a South Dakota woman who had vanished in August
By Joe Hernandez Law enforcement authorities in South Dakota say a woman who had been missing since last summer was murdered by a member of the U.S. Air Force. Quinterius Chappelle was arrested on a federal charge of second-degree murder in the death of Sahela Sangrait, according to a social media post by the Pennington…
Woman kidnapped as a toddler in the US 25 years ago found alive in Mexico
Andrea Michelle Reyes was two when her mother took her from her father in Connecticut and fled the country A woman who was abducted in Connecticut as a toddler has been found alive 25 years later in Mexico. Andrea Michelle Reyes was two years old when she was taken by her mother, Rosa Tenorio, in…
Woman charged in dating app druggings and one death of older men in Las Vegas
FBI says Aurora Phelps met men online for dating then drugged them and stole cars and money A woman used online dating apps to lure at least four older men to meet her in person, drugged them with sedatives and stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in a “sinister” romance scheme, FBI officials in Las…
Police search for woman who escaped Panama hotel where US deportees are being held
Zheng Lijuan fled Panama City hotel as 170 of deported migrants were transported to dense, lawless region Police are searching for a Chinese woman who escaped from a downtown Panama City hotel where she was being held following her deportation from the US under Donald Trump’s intensified campaign against immigrants. Zheng Lijuan was one of…
Woman shot dead on Valentine’s Day named
A woman who was shot dead outside a Kent pub on Valentine’s Day has been named by police as Lisa Smith. Tributes to Ms Smith, 43, from Slough, have been left at the scene of the fatal shooting outside the Three Horseshoes pub in Knockholt shortly after 19:00 GMT on Friday. Flowers and balloons –…
Woman arrested for second time over girls’ school crash deaths
The driver of a car that crashed into a school tea party, killing two eight-year-old girls, has been rearrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving. Claire Freemantle, 48, previously expressed her “deepest sorrow” and said she had “no recollection of what took place” after the deaths of Nuria Sajjad and Selena Lau in…
Remembering Margarethe Hilferding, the First Woman Admitted to Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society
Margarethe Hilferding, Sigmund Freud and the Conspiracy of Silence Margarethe Hilferding was the first woman admitted to Sigmund Freud’s Vienna Psychoanalytic Society, but her radical work on maternal instinct was dismissed and ignored By Marcy Thompson, Katie Hafner, Deborah Unger & The Lost Women of Science Initiative In honor of International Holocaust Remembrance Day next…
Brad Pitt Reacts After Woman Is Conned Out of $850K by Alleged Catfish
Brad Pitt’s rep addressed a French woman’s story of being conned into an online relationship with a scammer posing as the Oscar winner, who allegedly swindled her out of $850,000. Once upon a time in Hollywood, a scammer posing as Brad Pitt allegedly ran off with thousands of dollars in a catfishing scheme. That was…
‘It was extraordinary’: Spanish captain recalls rescue of woman who gave birth in dinghy
Mother and newborn saved from inflatable boat off Canary Islands, on a route on which thousands have died The call that would lead to one of the most poignant images of the humanitarian emergency in the deadly waters off the Canary Islands came at 4am Monday morning. The command centre of Spain’s Salvamento Marítimo (Maritime…
“Stop shooting! My daughter is dead”: Woman killed as West Bank power struggle rages
Warning: This story contains distressing details. Just before New Year, 21-year-old Shatha al-Sabbagh was out buying chocolate for her family’s children from a shop in Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. The “fearless” journalism student – who wanted to shed light on the suffering of the Palestinians – was with her mother, two young nephews…
Two men dead and woman in hospital after boat capsizes off South Australia coast
Three people from Millicent found unresponsive on beach south of Beachport Two men have died and a woman is in hospital after a boat capsized off a beach in South Australia’s east on Monday. Police reported that three people had been found unresponsive near Point Connor, south of Beachport, after reports that a boat had…
Woman had eight organs removed in cancer treatment
A woman who had eight organs removed after being diagnosed with a rare cancer has returned to work. Faye Louise, from Horsham, West Sussex, began planning her own funeral after doctors found a tumour in her appendix in 2023. But after “the mother of all surgeries”, she said she was cancer free and able to…
‘My son thinks I’d mad’ – meet the woman who owns 50 classic cars
Jane Weitzmann admits she has an obsession – and it’s all down to a Jaguar Mark X. Bought in the 1980s, the classic car has led her to buy “just” the 49 more, and they are all stored at her home in the village of South Littleton, Worcestershire. Ms Weitzmann’s collection includes BMWs, Ferraris, Lamborghinis,…
Bodies of British woman and South African fiance found in Vietnam tourist villa
No evidence of physical trauma on Greta Marie Otteson and Arno Els Quinton, who were found in separate rooms The bodies of a British woman and her fiance have been discovered in separate rooms at a tourist villa in Vietnam, police said. The victims were named locally as Greta Marie Otteson, a 33-year-old Briton, and…
Coventry woman who vanished 52 years ago found alive and well
Mystery of Sheila Fox’s disappearance at 16 solved after fresh police appeal A woman who went missing 52 years ago has been found alive and well after police released a grainy photograph as part of an appeal, solving one of Britain’s longest-running missing person cases. Sheila Fox, now 68, disappeared from Coventry in 1972 when…
Failings led to death of woman after weight loss surgery, coroner says
Susan Evans was not seen by specialist at Queen Alexandra hospital, Portsmouth, during junior doctors’ strike and contracted sepsis Failings at a hospital contributed to the death of a 55-year-old woman who suffered abdominal sepsis after weight loss surgery at the time of a junior doctors’ strike, a coroner has said. Susan Evans returned to…
Woman dead in scuba accident at popular Queensland swimming spot on New Year’s Day
Emergency services were called to Wave Break Island on the Gold Coast after a woman was pulled unresponsive from the ocean A woman has died in a tragic New Year’s Day scuba diving accident at a popular Gold Coast swimming spot. Emergency services were called to Wave Break Island, in Biggera Waters, at 10.10am on…
Ohio police solve 43-year-old murder of woman with help of DNA technology
Debra Lee Miller, 26, was killed in her apartment in 1981 by James Vanest, who was shot dead by police last month The murder of an 18-year-old woman in Ohio 43 years ago has been solved with the help of DNA technology, authorities announced on Monday. Jason Bammann, the Mansfield police chief, said the cold…
Woman fatally set on fire in New York subway car identified
It took nine days to identify Debrina Kawam, 57, of Toms River, New Jersey, after she burned to death in Brooklyn The woman who was set on fire in a subway car in New York on 22 December, horrifying New Yorkers and renewing a debate over city safety, has been identified as 57-year-old Debrina Kawam,…
Police identify woman set on fire in deadly New York City attack
Police in New York City have named the woman who was set on fire and burned to death on a subway train in Brooklyn. Authorities on Tuesday identified Debrina Kawam, 61, of New Jersey as the victim of the seemingly random 22 December attack that burned her body beyond recognition. Sebastian Zapeta, 33, is accused…
Man charged with murder and arson in New York subway killing
Prosecutors have formally charged a man in the death of a woman set alight on a New York subway train. On Friday, Sebastian Zapeta was indicted on charges of murder and arson, though he did not appear during the brief court hearing. Mr Zapeta, 33, is accused of setting fire to the woman, who may…
Man charged with murder, arson in NYC subway killing
Prosecutors have formally charged a man in the death of a woman set alight on a New York subway train. On Friday, Sebastian Zapeta was indicted on charges of murder and arson, though he did not appear during the brief court hearing. Mr Zapeta, 33, is accused of setting fire to the woman, who may…