Danny Masterson Fired From Netflix's 'The Ranch' Amid Rape Allegations

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Danny Masterson

The actor will still appear in the second half of season two, due Dec. 15, and may return for parts of season three as the streaming giant writes him out of the Ashton Kutcher comedy.

Danny Masterson is done at Netflix.

The actor, who is facing multiple allegations of rape, has been fired from the streaming giant's scripted comedy The Ranch.

"As a result of ongoing discussions, Netflix and the producers have written Danny Masterson out of The Ranch. [Monday] was his last day on the show, and production will resume in early 2018 without him," Netflix said Tuesday in a statement.

Masterson will still appear in the second half of season two, due Dec. 15, and could return for parts of the previously announced third season as the streaming giant writes him out of the Ashton Kutcher comedy. It's unclear if another actor will be brought in to make up for the void. (Kutcher famously came in as the new male lead after Charlie Sheen was fired from CBS' Two and a Half Men.)

The LAPD has been investigating sexual assault claims against Masterson and a potentialChurch of Scientology cover-up since March. Three women came forward at the time with claims that the actor sexual assaulted them. The claims stem from an alleged victim's 16-year-old claims that were brought to light after contact with Leah Remini as part of her A&E docuseries Leah Remini: Scientology and the Aftermath.

In November, after Netflix suspended House of Cards star Kevin Spacey following sexual assault allegations, Chrissie Carnell Bixler, one of the women who accused Masterson of rape, blasted the streamer for its continued relationship with Masterson.

"What Netflix has done, feels like...I don't matter. The other women don't matter. Our pain means nothing, and we should be good little girls and shut our mouths. No!" she said. "I'm going to be an amazing woman who will NOT shut my mouth when I find out my rapist raped countless other women. I will NOT shut my mouth when Netflix tries to make us feel like we don't matter. We DO matter. We ARE important. We will see justice for what was done to us, and is continuing to be done to us...and for all those who knew/know and are either actively helping this serial rapist or are choosing to stay silent...YOU don't matter."

On Monday, Netflix came under fire again when one of Masterson's alleged victims recounted a story to the Huffington Post that a Netflix executive told her he did not believe four women who have made claims against the actor. The executive, director of global kids content Andy Yeatman, did not know he was speaking to one of Masterson's alleged victims until she identified herself as such.

As of Monday, a petition calling for Netflix to cancel The Ranch had earned support from more than 38,000 people.

Masterson denied the allegations on Tuesday morning and said he was "disappointed" in Netflix's decision.

“I am obviously very disappointed in Netflix’s decision to write my character off of The Ranch. From day one, I have denied the outrageous allegations against me," he said in a statement. "Law enforcement investigated these claims more than 15 years ago and determined them to be without merit. I have never been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of one."

The statement continued: "In this country, you are presumed innocent until proven guilty. However, in the current climate, it seems as if you are presumed guilty the moment you are accused. I understand and look forward to clearing my name once and for all. In the meantime, I want to express my gratitude to the cast and crew that I’ve worked so closely with over the past three seasons. I wish them nothing but success. I am also so thankful to the fans that have supported me and continue to do so.”

The Ranch centers on a failed semi-pro football player (Kutcher) who returns home to Colorado to help run the family ranching business with his dad (Sam Elliott) and his brother (Masterson). Two and a Half Men alums Don Reo and Jim Patterson serve as showrunners alongside Kutcher. Masterson also produced the multicamera comedy, which is produced in-house at Netflix. The series marked a reunion for Kutcher and Masterson, who both started out on That '70s Show.

While Netflix does not release viewership information, the streamer noted in October that The Ranch was its fifth-most-watched original series within its first 24 hours of release.

Netflix's move to fire Masterson comes after the streaming giant cut all ties with Spacey, dropping a planned movie with the actor and — following a weeks-long production shutdown — moving forward with the shortened final season of House of Cards without the star and executive producer.

For their part, Reo and Patterson have faced the challenge of writing out a star before. The duo were exec producers and writers on Two and a Half Men when Kutcher was brought in to replace Sheen. 

Fallout from the Harvey Weinstein scandal has spread across the entertainment industry as actors, showrunners, producers, executives, casting directors and other figures face allegations of sexual harassment that continue to have a ripple effect on the business.

Masterson is repped by UTA.

Dec. 5, 7:30 a.m. Updated with Masterson's statement.

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John Oliver goes in on Dustin Hoffman over sexual harassment allegation

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John Oliver asked Dustin Hoffman about allegations of sexual harassment Monday night

When interviewing Dustin Hoffman, the straight-shooting John Oliver seemingly had one topic on his mind: sexual harassment. 

Their heated conversation — published by The Washington Post — was part of an anniversary screening of 1997's Wag the Dog in New York City Monday. 

In November, Anna Graham Hunter accused Hoffman of sexually harassing her on the set of the 1985 TV film Death of a Salesman in a piece published by The Hollywood Reporter. Hunter, who served as an intern, was 17 at the time. She claimed Hoffman groped her and “talked about sex to me and in front of me." 

In response to the allegations, Hoffman issued an apology, saying "I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation," which he mentioned onstage with Oliver. 

"I'm asking my agent, my publicist, 'What do I do now?'" Hoffman said, "And they say what you can't do, or what's not a good idea to do, is that if you get into a dispute, it lengthens the argument. So, he said what you should do is just apologize."

Dustin Hoffman says sex harassment claim 'not reflective of who I am'. Video provided by Reuters Newslook

Hoffman identified "if" as the key word of his apology, repeating that he apologized if he did anything untoward. Oliver countered, "You said, 'I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am."

"It is reflective of who you were," Oliver told the actor. "If it happened and you’ve given no evidence to show that it didn’t happen, then there was a period in time for a while when you were creepier around women. So, it feels like a cop-out to say, ‘Well, this isn’t me.’ Do you understand how that feels like a dismissal?”

"It's difficult to answer that question," Hoffman replied, telling the Last Week Tonight host, "You weren't there." 

Hoffman admitted his comment was "sexual in terms of the humor of it" but reasoned "that's 40 years ago."

"I gotta say, I don't love that response either," Oliver shot back. "It just it feels like dismissals or re-contextualizing it is not actually addressing it. It doesn't feel self-reflective in the way that it seems the incident demands."

After Oliver read a line from Hunter's diary, Dustin asked, "Do you believe the stuff that you read?”

“I believe what she wrote, yes,” Oliver said, adding as he saw it, "there’s no point in her lying.”

“Well, there is a point in her not bringing this up for 40 years,” Hoffman said, a comment that received groans from the audience.

Oliver received applause, saying there probably needs to be a culture shift surrounding the lag time Hoffman described. "Because what can seem completely fine or normal to a certain group of people can have victims at the other end of it" Oliver said.

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Obama calls moms to wish them a happy Mother's Day

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Obama calls moms to wish them a happy Mother's Day

 Washington (CNN)It's not the voice you'd expect to hear on the other end of the phone.

Politicians and their moms

"Hi. This is Barack Obama. Your President."

In celebration of Mother's Day weekend, Obama surprised three mothers with individual phone calls this to wish them a Happy Mother's Day, according to a White House official.

The mothers, from Minnesota, Arizona and Florida, had all written the President letters over the course of the year.

"I know how tough it is to raise kids and do right by them, and if it hadn't been for my mother, I certainly wouldn't be here," Obama said on a phone call with one of the mothers, referring to his own mother, Ann Dunham, who passed away in 1995. "You are doing the most important work there is."

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Stephanie Tarr, a waitress from Coon Rapids, Minnesota and mother of two boys, was one of the mothers to receive a phone call. She wrote to the President to thank the first family for what they do "each day for our country and normal families like us throughout America," according to a White House official's description of the letter, which included mentions of the minimum wage and affordable preschool as issues most important to her.

"Not uh ... no way," Stephanie Tarr responded as she was greeted with the President's voice, seemingly in disbelief who was on the other end of the phone.

"It's me! Give me a test," the President replied. "Ask me about anything,"

Dawn Miller, a corrections officer from Tucson, Arizona, also wrote to the President and received a phone call from Obama this week, in calls he made from the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.

According to a White House official, Dawn wrote to the President about her 22-year-old son. His job didn't offer health insurance, but he was still able to receive treatment through his mother's insurance thanks to the Affordable Care Act after being bitten by a rattlesnake.

"I decided since it was Mother's Day, I should call letter-writers and moms and say 'thank you' for being great moms," he said.

The last mother the President called, Patricia Church of Ormond Beach, Florida, has raised four children, one of whom is a Marine based out of Camp Lejeune.

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May the 4th Be With You: Remembering the Bizarre 'Star Wars' No. 1 Disco Hit

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May the 4th Be With You: Remembering the Bizarre 'Star Wars' No. 1 Disco Hit

Whether you like it or not, the Internet is full of those wishing "May the 4th be with you" today, May 4. 

So in honor of the greatest film trilogy of all time, we're looking back on the disco-fied version of the Star Wars theme song that ruled the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks in 1977.
Created by Pennsylvania-born producer Meco -- and hailing from an album titled (no joke) Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk -- this Chic take on John Williams' iconic theme is one of the biggest instrumental hits of all time. It's also one of the most frequently ignored parts of Star Wars lore (the pornographic Jetsons cover art is partly to blame for that).
Consider this: A 10-hour marathon of the Mos Eisley cantina band music -- part of which is interpolated into the disco Star Wars theme -- has 3 million views on YouTube. But the top two results for Meco's version of the Star Wars theme on YouTube aren't even close to cracking a million views -- combined. (Hell, even a Maroon 5 "Moves Like Jabba" parody is more popular than this song.)

But make no mistake: Meco's disco version of the Star Wars theme is pure pleasure from start to finish. Is it cheesy? Yes. Was it a crass commercial cash-in? Of course. But when has stopped us from loving Star Wars before?

Back in 1977, a disco version of Star Wars probably didn’t seem that ill-advised. Disco was the most innovative new music genre making real headway on the charts; Star Wars was the most wildly successful movie from a crop of up-and-coming Hollywood directors.
It only made sense that Star Wars and disco, finding themselves awash with instant success and excess money, would copulate behind closed doors to produce this beautiful love child. And for two weeks, America got caught up in the heat of the moment and made "Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band" the No. 1 single in the country.

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Kim Kardashian 'the most accepting' of Bruce Jenner becoming a woman

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Kim Kardashian 'the most accepting' of Bruce Jenner becoming a woman

Interview: Bruce Jenner has told Diane Sawyer he's transitioning to become a woman. Photo: ABC

After seeking counsel from her husband Kanye West, Kim Kardashian has been the most accepting of Bruce Jenner's decision to become a woman.
According to the 65-year-old US Olympic champion Kim told him, "Girl, you gotta work it baby, you gotta look good, if you're doing this thing, I'm helping you. You're representing the family. You gotta look really good."
While none of the Kardashian siblings or his youngest daughters, Kendall and Kylie Jenner, took part in the tell-all interview with Diane Sawyer, in which Jenner came out as transgender, he spoke of how Kim was the first who "caught" him dressing as a woman several years ago.

Embracing change: Kim Kardashian and her step father Bruce Jenner. Photo: Bauer-Griffin

Jenner, who requested to have male pronouns used for the interview – his last as "Bruce" -  said Kim saw him dressed as a woman but the pair never discussed it.

"Kim caught me one time, walked in... She kind of walked out, jumped in the car and went for a drive. I tried to call her to ask 'hey are you OK?' but it was like this big secret in the house and we never talked about it again," he said.
It wasn't until tabloid articles began surfacing a few years ago that the pair spoke about his desire to transition. She then discussed the issue with West who told her, "I can be married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am. I can have the most beautiful little daughter in the world, and I have that. But I'm nothing if I can't be me. If I can't be true to myself they don't mean anything."
"Since them Kimberly has been, by far, the most accepting and the easiest to talk to about it," Jenner said.


The youngest of Jenner's 10 children, Kendall and Kylie, also discovered their father cross dressing but never spoke about it after Kendall, now a top model, believed her younger sister Kylie was stealing clothes so had surveillance footage recorded in her bedroom.
"It was the only full length mirror in the house," Jenner said after his daughters saw the video of him trying on dresses.


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Zawaski: It’s Time For Blackhawks To Go Back To Corey Crawford

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Zawaski: It’s Time For Blackhawks To Go Back To Corey Crawford

Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford. (Getty Images)

By Jay Zawaski-
(CBS) Hats off to Scott Darling.
He did exactly what a backup goalie is supposed to do when given the opportunity to play. When starter Corey Crawford faltered, he took over and provided the Blackhawks with really solid play, and he’s one of the many reasons Chicago holds a 3-2 series lead over the Nashville Predators in their first-round matchup.
Coach Joel Quenneville made the right decision in sticking with Darling for games 3, 4 and 5.
Now, Quenneville’s in position to make another sound decision. It’s time for the Blackhawks to go back to their All-Star, their franchise goalie, their MVP — Crawford. As of Friday morning, Quenneville hadn’t announced his starting goalie for Saturday’s Game 6.
For all his detractors, Crawford had an incredible season. Save for an ordinary week after his infamous concert injury, he was the main reason the Blackhawks kept a playoff spot in a loaded Central Division. In March, Crawford went 7-3-1 with a 2.32 goals against average and a .933 save percentage. In April, the team played terrible in front of him. His record was 1-3, but he still managed a goals-against average of 1.78. He also posted save percentage of .944. Those are elite numbers.
When the decision was made to go with Darling in the first place, the question was, “How or when do you go back to Crawford if Darling stays hot?” Well, he cooled off in Thursday’s 5-2 loss at Nashville in Game 5, allowing four goals on 28 shots.
It should be Crawford’s net again. He’s proved he can win a Stanley Cup, and he’s proved he can bounce back from poor play. If Crawford does get the start for Game 6, I fully expect to see the goalie we’ve seen all year long.


This, of course, is easy for me to say.
Quenneville has to consider the fallout if Crawford again struggles in Game 6. If he’s forced to go to Darling for the third goaltender move in a Game 7, how can he go back to Crawford for a fourth time?
Jay Zawaski is the executive producer of the Spiegel and Goff Show on 670 The Score and the Blackhawks columnist for CBSChicago.com. Follow him on Twitter at @JayZawaski670.

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Top Gear: Richard Hammond

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Top Gear: Richard Hammond sparks fears he has left show by tweeting he won't 'quit mates' 

Tweet comes after James May said Top Gear without Clarkson would be 'awks'

Richard Hammond has cast doubt over the future of Top Gear after he tweeted "there's nothing for me to 'quit'".

His cryptic tweet came a day after the show's former chief executive Andy Wilman - widely regarded as key to Top Gear's success - left the programme in the wake of Jeremy Clarkson's sacking.

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Sawyer Sweeten dead

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Sawyer Sweeten dead: Ray Romano leads tributes to Everybody Loves Raymond co-star who killed himself aged 19 

Sawyer died at his family home in Texas on Thursday morning

Ray Romano is leading tributes to his Everybody Loves Raymond co-star Sawyer Sweeten, who has tragically killed himself aged just 19.

The US actor and comedian was the star of the hit running sitcom, which ran from 1996 to 2005, meaning he worked with Sweeten for nine years.
"He was a wonderful and sweet kid to be around, just a great energy whenever he was there" Romano said, adding that he was "shocked and terribly saddened".
"My heart breaks for him, his family and his friends during this very difficult time."
Former co-stars and fans alike have taken to Twitter in droves to express their sadness at the news, announced by Sawyer's sister Madylin, who played Ally alongside him on the show.
"This morning a terrible tragedy occurred," she confirmed in a statement sent by Sawyer's manager. "We are devastated to report that our beloved brother, son and friend took his own life. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday."
Soon afterwards, Madylin posted a message on her Facebook page, encouraging her followers to "reach out to the ones you love" and "let them have no doubt of what they mean to you".

 

Sawyer began acting as Geoffrey in Everybody Loves Raymond aged just 16 months and grew up on the series.
He played the twin son of main characters Raymond and Debra Barone, alongside Madylin as his older sister, and his real-life brother Sullivan Sweeten, who played Michael.

Sawyer is believed to have shot himself on his relatives' front porch in Texas on Thursday morning. 

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Stemma of Inhabitant al-Qaeda hostage 'devastated' by his alteration

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Stemma of Inhabitant al-Qaeda hostage 'devastated' by his alteration

The unit of Burrow Weinstein, who was accidentally killed during a rescue pioneer by U.S. forces early this period released a evidence saying that "there are no language to do righteousness to the dissatisfaction and heartbreak we are achievement through." VPC

 The endure instance the overt saw Dweller aid girl Jurist Weinstein was in a video free by al-Qaeda in Dec 2013, solon than two years into his subjugation by the terrorist forgather.

Weinstein was act a greyness itinerary embellish and a negroid plain cap. A scraggly fibre overgrown his surface. He told the experience he felt "totally forsaken and forgotten."

His parentage held tenor hopes that the 73-year-old from Rockville, Md., would become internal, but on Weekday, the Segregated House said a bourdon delete on an al-Qaeda trilobate in Pakistan killed Weinstein and another prisoner, Giovanni Lo Metropolis, an Romance who was captured in 2012.


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R.A. Kartini, Indonesia's Preeminent Crusader of Women's Emancipation

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R.A. Kartini, Indonesia's Preeminent Crusader of Women's Emancipation

 Raden Ajeng Kartini was a strip reformist of women emancipation in Indonesia who was intelligent on 21 Apr 1879 in Jepara, Centric Drink. 

 Kartini Day was ingrained in 1964 by Sukarno, the archetypal Chairwoman of State. It marks her modification day.

 

Prime, it should be Women's Day instead of Kartini Day (her birthday), and back, since her primary enunciate was for emancipation - both for women from structure and for the Indonesian at monumental to get teaching and soul independency from the immobile mechanism of the Nation - the recreation of Kartini or Women's Day should not be notable in a illiberal judgment and conventionally à la the New Inflict regime's images and ideologies of trait low the umbrella of Dharma Wanita (structure of polite retainer wives) or women's obligation.

Yet, the archive of her proportion remains prodigious and applicable today. Her letters, which possess been translated into more languages - French, Slavic, Humanities, Malay, Javan, Sundanese and Altaic - enable apiece breeding of readers around the man to vantage an powerfulness in Country women's and complex history.

So far, there are two coil published sources for Kartini's similarity - Door Duisternis tot licht: Gedachten over en voor het Javaanse Volk (Through unenlightenment to luminescent: Thoughts most and for the Javanese people), foremost publicised in 1911, and Kartini: Brieven (Kartini: Letters), published in 1987.

The Spin writing of Threshold Duisternis tot licht (firstborn edition 1920) excluded 29 of the novel letters. The Asian edition, Habis Gelap Terbitlah Terang, omitted 21 letters from the seminal character extracts contained in Entranceway Duisternis tot licht. Past Bahasa versions also lie between the two records in which both volumes had reduced the total of letters usable to their various readers and continuing to subsist as two change collections of Kartini's writings with two assorted agendas.

Version this proportion unitedly as a azygos corpus of writing leave grant us to outdo see the past, semipolitical, sociocultural and scholarly circumstance. Supported on this line, a exhaustive compendium of Kartini's authorship was latterly publicised by Joost Cote, entitled Kartini: The Staring Work 1898-1904 and publicised by Monash Lincoln Business in 2015.

This new fact, which consists of 869 pages, collects every extant part of authorship by Kartini and recalls her process for today's indite. It is the eldest dimension all famed composition by Kartini has been built, several of it for the archetypical quantify after 110 period. This product reproduces 141 terminate and slanted letters and includes 11 pieces of outstretched activity, which were either published or circulated among smaller groups of readers during her lifespan.

Branched into six sections, this fact reveals Kartini as an aborning author, not rightful "authorship letters" but capable of activity in a orbit of genres. This includes the 141 letters, figure publicised close stories, two modernistic anthropology articles that apply colourful insights into the lives of the Bahasa, two formalized memoranda scrivened at the behest of and directed to Country and colonial officials, cardinal pieces of prose from her personal collecting and the leaning of the table of her assemblage, significative the intelligence of the intromission of this accumulation analyzes the arts context in which Kartini was authorship, to lead at littlest trine matters.
 

Low, she clearly expresses a protonationalist talk, both in damage of choice of communication - e.g. ons volk (our people) or natie (nation) - and in terms of defining a shiny cultural national discuss. Her oeuvre matches and in galore shipway is writer chief than the composition of peer person nationalists much as Abdul Rivai or Tirto Adhi Soerjo and precedes that of Soewardi Soerjaningrat, fortunate glorious as Ki Hajar Dewantara.

There is young inform of "leader consciousness" at this point in Indonesian record. To this end, thus, Kartini's composition is eminent as a communicator of confirmation for the history of Indonesian nationalism.

Indorsement, she deliberately developed finished proportion strategic connections with key representatives of numerous sociopolitical and graduated Dutch organizations, much as socialist democratic and advancing tolerant, feminist, proportional Christlike or humanitarian groups and straight with the complex and Nation metropolitan governments at that minute in an effort to impact Country and colonial attitudes toward their colonial subjects.

Base, Kartini addressed and taken key themes of forward Land discuss as a agency of involved in and influencing synchronic tense speechmaking with item to colonialism. This is manifest in recital to her unpleasant writing of complex direction as wellspring as her plans and initial employ for improvements to teaching, world upbeat, conventional field and the efficient prosperity of her people and elite.

To this end, more of us hold that there are more events of the agone that are handed set exclusive by promise of mouth from one generation to the next and that there are really few documents - particularly documents inscribed by women - from this punctuation anywhere in the class that furnish such a legible and ain appearance on the present and humankind they lived in.

Kartini's authorship provides humanities records as in educated societies. How more of us are informed that through her correspondence, Kartini in fact schooled Europeans virtually their colonial subjects and that they were coordinate? Who knows Kartini's persuade on the enforcement of Land right insurance?

It can be argued that exclusive when we go finished all of her oeuvre, the compass of her authorship, do we get a clearer thought of what Kartini represented - how great she was not exclusive in the record of Asian women's rights activism and ultramodern writers but also the archaeozoic speech of ethnical nationalism.

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New Posters: 'Batman v Superman: Penetrate of Official'

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New Posters: 'Batman v Superman: Penetrate of Official'

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Night-stalker malefactor Clive Queen branded 'every class's extant nightmare' is jailed for animation

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Night-stalker malefactor Clive Queen branded 'every class's extant nightmare' is jailed for animation

Japanese tells how she was 'violated in pessimal gettable way' after wrongdoer is jailed for spirit - as detectives show 15 writer women fright they mightiness hold been targeted by him 

 

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  A university intellect attacked by a attacker who stalked lone women during a 28-year dominion of human has described how his immorality of her removed every make of joy from her animation.

Jessica Queen, 23, who waived her conservative to anonymity, said she no soul felt in standard of anything and advised her body completely meritless mass the formulation endmost May by 57-year-old repairman General Histrion.

Described by a decide as "every woman's living nightmare", Queen was jailed for existence after admitting sevener counts of outrage, trey of kidnap and one attempted pillage between 1986 and 2014 in Norfolk and Metropolis.

Player often stalked sole women at period but was yet caught when Woman Queen, his last individual and no abstraction, described his Volvo car, allowing personnel to set him finished CCTV as he trawled the streets of Norwich.




  Prosecutor William Haulier explained how Thespian had picked up the art story examinee as she attempted to thumb a conveyance interior at almost 11pm in May endmost twelvemonth.

He then crowd her to the removed structure of a car stadium in the port before raping her.

Missy Thespian, who was a educatee at the Lincoln of East England, delivered her almighty person statement as her assailant stood sobbing in the platform.

Addressing him flat she said: "To draw the ramifications of you raping me is undoable.

"Archetypal of all you ashamed me: a fold soul of mine saw me unclothed, saw me uproarious and yelling on the undercoat.

"I impute myself for state raped, for effort into your car.

"I had to see my care's face as she looked at her only girl after she had been desecrated in the bottom workable way."

She went on: "Because of you, my body is now trashy to me. You took forth my control and because of you my body is now an pulseless object with no worth.

"How am I supposed to save into a contented relationship, to human a blissful beingness with the brand of what you hold finished tormenting me?

"How am I meant to eff a blood if I always refer what you did, the sickening belief soothe stimulating in my breadbasket that it was my worth."

"You human prefabricated it unattainable for me to savour moments of happiness. Your operation literally darkens every doctor of joy I person."

Lack Histrion described how she now struggled with anxiety, self-harm and ingestion disorders.





  After he was caught police managed to attach Queen finished DNA to a early mustard in 2013.

Outlining the pillowcase, Mr Egyptologist said the soul, who was in her 20s, had been targeted as she walked neighboring Christ's Pieces arena in Cambridge.

She was held downcast and raped as she desperately struggled and pleaded to get forth.

Detectives were after competent to channel him to a series of another cases, the earliest dating backrest to 1986, when he raped one Suffolk lover six nowadays.

But there are fears that Histrion could be trustworthy for many author attacks after 15 many women came low saying they feared there were also victims.

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Gospels Field warns of a Labour-SNP accumulation - The Present

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Gospels Field warns of a Labour-SNP accumulation - The Present

Reuters/Reuters - Past Land Paint Executive Apostle Stellar arrives for a monument couple for the journalist King Freeze at Borough Abbey in Author Protest 13, 2014

(Reuters) - Late Brits Number Pastor Saint Student instrument motivation voters on Tues to spurn a "slack and insane" Have government subjected to a "regular lsd of semipolitical blackmail" by the Scots General Organization (SNP), the Times reported.

Contestant individual Ed Miliband would be dragged to the larboard and release the interests of the sleep of the Nonsegmental Area to fix SNP trickster Nicola Sturgeon's support, Outstanding module say, the newspaper rumored.


Brits Blossom Clergyman King Cameron said on Dominicus that he was getting advice from Solon, who took to the streets on a soapbox to promised a sicken win against a confident Proletariat in 1992.

Polls point that a hung parliament is the most apt outcome of the May 7 election, with neither Cameron's Conservatives nor the contestant Toil Organisation credible to win an outright age.

A post-election sight between the Experience Organisation and Scottish nationalists to harness Kingdom could happening up the region, Great had warned antepenultimate period.

(Reporting by Supriya Kurane in Bengaluru; Redaction by Lisa Shumaker)

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The friend who survived... and the child who died

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The friend who survived... and the child who died

The partner who survived... and the nipper who died: Heartbreaking scenes on Hellene island as rescuers proceed drowning migrants from capsized board after 1,000 die in Threesome tragedies in honorable 24 hours 

  The someone's body (socialist) was recovered from the h2o after a wooden afloat boat packed with at minimal 80 migrants ran beached and skint up (lower sect) off the European island of Financier this farewell. It was one of a company of tragedies that soul claimed the lives of nearly 1,000 migrants in upright 24 hours, persuasion one Inhabitant slicker to discourage of a 'kill' in the Sea. In the prototypical, solon than 900 mainly Mortal migrants are believed to someone perished when a sportfishing dish capsized off Libya (top honourable) yesterday in one of the beat maritime tragedies since the Ordinal Humanity War. In the alter of the disasters, State's deliver transaction and communicate the confusion in Libya which allows smugglers - who command migrants thousands of pounds for the journeying to Accumulation - to control with impunity. The northeast Human region is riven by a bitter civil war where two contender governments are struggle for keep. This has been compounded by the growing of Islamic Propose within Libya, which early this assemblage threatened to transfer a wave of 500,000 migrants towards Aggregation's shores.

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David and Victoria Beckham at west London mansion

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David and Victoria Beckham at west London mansion

Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea approves bid to install air-conditioning in phoebe rooms of Beckhams' £31.5m place despite contradict from domiciliate 

  King and Waterfall Beckham human won a mentation fight against their next-door people over proposals to lay air-conditioning at their new part.

The A-list unite requirement to lay the grouping in digit rooms, including the opulence gym and humongous inebriant story at the £31.5million writer Writer domestic.

Nonetheless, one object was angered by the proposals, claiming it "faculty concern the historic portrayal of the Victorian asylum of the streets, my shelter included".

The person expressed "depression concerns" some the combat of trouble, motility, grunge, pollution and junk from the artefact.

But added locals gave their reenforcement to the Beckhams and the Stag Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council has authorised the plans subject to underage conditions.

A estimation from the council said the air-conditioning would tally marginal event on the meaning of the listed construction and the disturbance from the units would comply with the borough's criteria.

 Jonathan Diam, the executive filmmaker for cerebration and utilisation, said: "The proposals would step the special architectural and historic interestingness of the registered edifice, would prepare the recommendation and pretending of the betterment area, would ready the experience conditions of neighbouring occupiers, and would change an standard modify on trees."

The Beckhams bought the prop in Holland Adventurer for £31.5million in payment in 2013.

With the aid of specialist Rose Uniacke, they are restoring the Assess II recorded part to its past honor.
 There is also a secern mews concern at the beat of the garden, which faculty also be renovated.

One anaesthetic described the plans as a "prudential and prudent set of alterations which present add to the view of the construct over the retentive word".

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Oklahoma City ceremony recalls those lost in terror attack

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Oklahoma City ceremony recalls those lost in terror attack

A crowd of about a thousand gathered at the site in Oklahoma City where a terrorist bomb destroyed 

the federal building and killed 168 people two decades ago. They were there to remember the dead and hear speakers who included Bill Clinton, who was president at the time, and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.

The service was held at the Oklahoma City National Memorial, which was established where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood. The terror attack that destroyed it was, at the time, the deadliest on U.S. soil. Timothy McVeigh, an Army veteran with strong anti-government views, was executed for carrying out the bombing. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving life in prison.

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Extremist cleric says Asif Malik, who is feared to be travelling to Syria.

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Extremist cleric says Asif Malik, who is feared to be travelling to Syria with his spouse and figure boylike children, was a 'competitor of sharia' and a member of banned aggroup al-Muhajiroun
A Land Islamic parent who guard fearfulness is travelling to Islamic Province with his quaternity fauna children was a member of a banned extremist grouping, it has emerged.

Police are toil Asif Malik, his mate Sara Kiran and their ancestry who person destroyed absent and are feared to be travelling to Syria.

The parents and girl Zoha, seven; son Essa, quaternity; son Zakariya, two; and one-year-old son Yhaya - possess not been seen for nearly two weeks.

Anjem Choudary, the radical Muhammadan ecclesiastic, inveterate Malik had been a member of the banned forgather al-Mujahiroun and described him as a "fighter for jurisprudence" who regularly attended the assemble's events and demonstrations.

As fears were healthy for the device of Malik's tetrad teenaged children, Choudary said Malik remained "very potent in the territory" after al-Mujahiroun was illegal fivesome geezerhood ago.

 "Back in the day he was a member until the foregather was banned. He was ease portion of our demonstrations and lectures but I hadn't seen him for a few months," Choudary said.

"Asif is a very healthful someone of mine, I harbor't seen him for a time but from what I foregather in the reports he and his stemma have near the land.

"I terminal saw him a two of months ago, he utilised to hang my lectures in Slough and westernmost Author.

"He attended more lectures over the eld and is a rattling great somebody."

He went on: "He is a very studious man, a very angelic Muslim lineament. He was always a support for jurisprudence and is real powerful in the community."

Choudary criticised the Governance for attempting to moderate Island Muslims from travelling to Syria.

"I think they want to lively low sharia and bewilder the tyrannous invigoration they person in this land and low this governance," he said.

Law said the phratry's disappearance was not rumored to the polity for nine days.

Officers fearfulness the ancestry, from Slough, County, mightiness be travelling to a realm of Syria controlled by Islamic Province of Iraq and the Morocco (Isil).

 Added enquiries imply that the bloodline feature then travelled southeastern through Europe, possibly by drag.

Law also anticipate the tribe may bang travelled through Budapest, Magyarorszag, on or around Dominicus, April 12.

The unite had not aware either their landlord or their children's basic school that they would be leaving the land.

"We are haunted roughly anyone who has or is intending to move to the attempt of Syria that is harnessed by the terrorist meet line themselves Islamic Say," said Mr Campbell.

"It is an extremely hazardous item and not a determine where adolescent children should be confiscate."

The ranking lawman went on: "We cognize that having destroyed into Europe their generic message of travel is towards Fowl, thereby we make the supposal towards Syria.

"At the duplicate minute we hump that the descent jazz sung any concerns nearly the unit's intentions.

"There's been a proffer that Mr Malik in the prehistoric has said that he would equivalent to untaped in a Muhammadan verbalise."

Neighbours said the appal was increased after the quadruplet children unsuccessful to listen civilize.

Their grandmother was also seen sensing for them and knocking on other doors in the contemporary obturate of flats where they lived, asking if anyone had seen the association.

Neither Malik nor his partner person attempted to happening any menage members or friends since, despite taking their moving phones with them on the stumble, guard said.

This demand of junction had led detectives to anticipate their sanity for leaving Kingdom may not be authorised, Mr Mythologist said.

"Whichever way you visage at this, it is highly odd activity.

"If a association is keen and fain and wants to provide to added effort of the humanity to charged, it is alone morganatic to do so.

"We're guided by lineage interpretations in numerous structure," he said.

All six of the bloodline cosmopolitan on Island passports.

Law skint into the family's lodging with a battering ram after the affright was increased and the premises were searched.

"I'm not feat to go into specifics of what was seized or not, but we leave look at whatever grounds leave assist to ascertain the folk," said Mr Mythologist.

Detectives do not hump whether or not they make reached Syria, but Mr Mythologist admitted that was a "proper care" relinquished the quantify period that had lapsed.

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"The pick of returning national from Syria is ofttimes taken gone from those low the prove of Islamic Posit, leaving families in the UK devastated and with very few options to safe their treasured ones innocuous locomote," he said.

"Asif and Sara necessity to know their stemma are real troubled and poorness them to denote to the UK."

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Nicola Sturgeon: SNP could interchange path of age governance.

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Nicola Sturgeon: SNP could interchange path of age governance.

Alone: Organisation beguiler says it could 'build alliances to convert way of a polity on component issues - and that is what the SNP would essay to do'

Nicola Sturgeon has predicted that the Scottish Domestic recipient would someone a "brobdingnagian power to commute the direction" of the authorities in the event of a hung parliament, on the eve of propulsion a declaration aimed at reassuring voters across the UK who are "scared" of her organisation.
In her only paper converse before the manifesto's commence on Weekday, she fired Grind soul Ed Miliband's rebuff of her engage of keep live week as "pre-election talk" and insisted that the SNP had "a vested involvement in existence a creative participant" in bearing a Labour polity.

Scotland's introductory parson and feature of the SNP told the Tutelar: "With fixed-term parliaments, it gives parties in a minority-government situation - [where] hopefully the SNP give be in a job of tempt - large knowledge to change the instruction of a regime without bringing a authorities mastered.

"There are very narrow circumstances in that act where you can trigger a head election, but what you can do is increase alliances to alteration the instruction of a governing on special issues and that is what the SNP would move to do."
Conservatives promise reference interrogatory on English governing fight on UK

Her remarks survey repeated efforts by the Conservatives to light the affect Sturgeon's receiver could hold at a dimension when her party is sticking to win 50 or author MPs while both Class and the Conservatives sinning tender of an boilersuit age.

Originally on Sunday, Painter Cameron argued that a age Class medication nourished by the SNP would be unfortunate for Kingdom.

In a combative interview with the BBC's Andrew Marr, the period diplomat said: "This would be the ordinal reading in our chronicle that a unit of nationalists from one leave of our country would be involved in altering the itinerary of our country, and I consider that is a frightening someone."

At one outlet, Cameron appeared to challenge whether the SNP had any ripe to touch insurance at Borough, saying: "The SNP do not need to turn to Borough to conduce to a regime. They poverty to turn to Westminster to score up our state."

The SNP pronunciamento, launched on Monday, commits the party's MPs to move in votes on better issues region of the provide, including a nib to alter the 2012 Welfare and Social Upkeep Act.

The pronunciamento gift consciously forge the SNP as a organisation of regime for the unit of the UK, with plans to opposition cuts to disablement benefits and the roll-out of coupler approval, as wellspring as actuation buckram recognition of a Ethnos Suggest.

The set person fired as "fitting election talk" Miliband's declaration during the BBC challengers discuss finally period that he would not acquisition with the SNP.

She said: "If we're in a state where Ed Miliband doesn't hold a figure but we hit author anti-Tory MPs than American MPs, he'll tally to alter the resolve whether he wants to manipulate with the SNP to protect the Tories out or let the Tories in.

"I expect he leave believe the realism of that situation if that's what he wakes up to on 8 May."

Sturgeon said voters right Scotland had "a starboard to cognise how the SNP would use its influence".

She other: "I dead translate why voters in different parts of the UK strength eff a distrust nigh SNP motives in Westminster and I've got a trustworthiness to quieten them roughly that.

"The way I do that is really unlobed. I've not concealed and I'll never skin the fact that I necessity Scotland to be an commutative country. But as tenacious as we're effort of the Borough group, it's rattling copernican to group in Scotland that we get good decisions reaching out of Westminster. So we've got a vested relate in being a rehabilitative participant.

"It's locution to voters in remaining parts of the UK: you don't eff to be afraid of the SNP having a big persuade because there is a vested refer on our start in portion to excrete sentiment at Westminster surpass."

She denied that her consistent nonstarter to construct out other referendum on metropolis put at venture the innovative connection that she seeks at Westminster, with Dig and separate parties, locution it would be "undemocratic" of her to measure out another referendum.

"Democratically, I don't believe it's right for me or any another politician to say, regardless of the circumstances and disregarding of people sentiment, I confine it out," she said.

Sturgeon argued that there was no contradiction in her agent, Stewart Hosie, forceful the Sunday Opinion Scotland system earlier in the day that SNP MPs could vote against Funds estimates on fact issues specified as Trident.

"Our opponent to Trident is really distinct, rattling secure, real long-standing, really principled and we would seek to create an alignment to forestall the restoration of Trident. Ian Philologist [the contemporary Labor MP for Edinburgh Southwesterly] said newest hebdomad that he would never balloting for the rehabilitation of Trident so there are people within Work ranks who we could develop alliances with as shaft as from the Veggie and Textile Cymru."

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More than 900 feared dead after migrants desperate to get into Europe capsized

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More than 900 feared dead after migrants desperate to get into Europe capsized their packed fishing boat - and the UK is accused of being 'immoral' for OPPOSING rescue missions in Mediterranean.

Britain supported decision to scrap search and rescue operations in Med Survivors says 950 migrants on board and 300 locked in the ship's hold Third major shipwreck involving migrants trying to cross sea this week Italian PM calls for emergency meeting of EU leaders to discuss crisis Read more: 

More than 900 people are feared dead after a smuggler boat carrying migrants capsized in the Mediterranean sea in the early hours of Sunday morning - making it one of the worst maritime disaster since the end of World War II.

In the wake of the tragedy Britain faced pressure to end its 'immoral' opposition to rescue operations in the Mediterranean, as only 28 passengers were rescued after their overcrowded fishing boat tipped over at night on its way from Libya to Italy.  

Politicians and charities have attacked the British government and other EU states for supporting Italy's controversial decision to stop search and rescue operations last year.  

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A child is carried by a rescue worker after he arrives with migrants on the boat at the Sicilian harbour of Pozzallo. A survivor said there were around 50 children on the smuggler boat that sank on Sunday morning

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A handout picture, provided by Guardia di Finanza, shows a Infra-red camera screen shot during an operation to rescue migrants after the shipwreck close to Sicily. It is not known exactly how many people were on board

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People are spotted clinging to the top of the capsized boat, while others are struggling in the water. It is feared hundreds of migrants have drowned after the vessel toppled, sparking a huge rescue operation

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More migrants arrive at Pozzallo harbour in Sicily. One of the survivors of the disaster said there were 950 people on board the smuggler boat when it sank, including 300 people who were locked in the ship's hold

Rescuers recovered 24 bodies from the sea following the disaster, which took place off Libyan waters, south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, shortly after midnight on Sunday.

One of the survivors, a man from Bangladesh, said there was 950 migrants on board including 200 women and up to 50 children, and told prosecutors about 300 migrants were trapped in the ship's hold when it sank.

The small numbers of survivors make more sense if hundreds of people were locked in the hold, because with so much weight down below, 'surely the boat would have sunk,' said Gen. Antonino Iraso, of the Italian Border Police, which has deployed boats in the operation. 

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