By Jennifer BEN BRAHIM On today’s weekly music show on Arts24, Jennifer Ben Brahim speaks to the singer of one of the most successful British bands of the last decade. Bastille stormed the UK charts in 2013 with their debut album “Bad Blood”, spawning smash-hits like “Pompeii”. Four records later, Dan Smith has taken a […]
A man in the UK has been sentenced to 10 years in jail, plus a five-year extended licence period after advocating ‘slapping therapy’ which led to the death of a woman at one of his healing camps. The man, identified as Hongchi Xiao, 61, was convicted of gross negligence manslaughter of 71-year-old Danielle Carr-Gomm who […]
By Agence France-Presse A former British soldier on Friday pleaded not guilty to murdering two men during the 1972 Bloody Sunday massacre, one of the most significant events in Northern Ireland’s decades-long conflict. The ex-paratrooper, identified only as “Soldier F”, applied to have the case against him dismissed, but a judge at Belfast Crown Court […]