The day my brother was taken

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  13 minutes  |  2663 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

David Kushner illustration Photograph: Eva BeeDavid Kushner illustration Photograph: Eva BeeThe ObserverUS crimeWhen David Kushner was four, his brother was murdered in the woods. He describes his lifelong struggle to learn the truth about what happened 1973: My last memory of my brother Jon was my most suspect. It was 28 October and we were on the pavement outside our house. I was a stocky four-year-old with a brown bowl haircut, and Jon, wiry and lean with wavy red hair, was 11. [Read More]

Three dead in tourist plane crash in Switzerland | Switzerland

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  1 minutes  |  180 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Switzerland This article is more than 8 months oldThree dead in tourist plane crash in SwitzerlandThis article is more than 8 months oldPilot and two passengers died at scene of accident in steep and forested area in west of country A tourist plane crashed in a wooded, mountainous area of western Switzerland on Saturday, killing the three people onboard, police said. The small tourist plane crashed in a steep and forested area near Ponts-De-Martel in the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel at about 10. [Read More]

Top Of The Lake: a mystery that's impossible to get a handle on

 Posted on June 8, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  695 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

TV ODTop of the LakeThis is a beautifully shot mystery, wrapped in an unpleasant thriller that's also a morality tale"Paradise," mumbles tiny mystic GJ (Holly Hunter), peering at the surrounding mist-crowned mountains and breeze-ruffled pastures. "I chose this place for its name. This is why we came here. I wanted … (voice hardens, eyebrows scrunch) … to see Paradise for myself." So that's Paradise, the prime patch of real estate that serves as the tumultuous backdrop to Top Of The Lake (Saturday, 9. [Read More]

'I want to go home': Filipina domestic workers face exploitative conditions

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2332 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

GenderMany of the Filipina women we interviewed across Asia, Europe and the Middle East lost jobs or had salaries cut since the pandemic – others were subjected to physical abuse This story is published in partnership between the Guardian and the Fuller Project. Listen to this story in our Today In Focus podcast Every morning, Rowena wakes early on the pile of blankets where she sleeps, curled up against a desk in the corner of the office she used to clean. [Read More]

'No other way to fight back': Philippines call center workers battle unfair quotas

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  892 words  |  Kary Bruening

Call centresEmployees begin unionizing to fight systematic termination policies driven by tight competition for foreign clients Sara Prestoza has worked as a call center employee in the Philippines for 12 years, a country where several corporations such as Comcast, AT&T, and Verizon outsource their customer service and technical support services, relying on a cheap labor source of its 1.3 million call center workers. Starting salary in some regions of the Philippines is as low as 5,000 pesos a month, equal to $92. [Read More]

A shocking connection: film-maker uncovers Blood in the Mobile | Documentary films

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  4 minutes  |  733 words  |  Valentine Belue

Film blogDocumentary filmsA shocking connection: film-maker uncovers Blood in the MobileFrank Poulsen's eye-opening new documentary exposes a link between the war in DR Congo and our mobile phonesWe all love our mobile phones, and the smarter they get, the more we want them. There is, though, a dark side to this affair. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, our demand for phones has been helping to finance a civil war which has killed more than 5m people. [Read More]

Duran Lantink, the man behind Janelle Mone's vagina pants

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  1000 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

FashionThe fashion designer may be known for one thing, but all that is set to change, as he makes 2019 his year You are probably already familiar with Duran Lantink’s fashion designs, even if his name doesn’t ring a bell. The Amsterdam-based fashion designer is the creator of the infamous vagina trousers worn by Janelle Monáe last year in her music video Pynk. Despite becoming the most talked-about trousers – and cultural yardsticks of 2018 – the wavy pink pants almost never happened. [Read More]

Making a book is an extraordinary thing: Pip Williams on the invisible history of female bookb

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  6 minutes  |  1129 words  |  Chauncey Koziol

Pip Williams surrounded by books at her home in South Australia. Her second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, is set in 1914 and tells the story of two women working in the bindery at Oxford University Press. Photograph: Sia Duff/The GuardianPip Williams surrounded by books at her home in South Australia. Her second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, is set in 1914 and tells the story of two women working in the bindery at Oxford University Press. [Read More]

Take more breaks at work, put your head in the freezer an experts eight simple tips for bette

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  11 minutes  |  2141 words  |  Jenniffer Sheldon

Sleep‘We’re built for sleep,’ according to the psychologist Aric Prather, yet many of us still struggle to overcome insomnia. He talks us through his ‘prescription’ Many of us are hoping for a happier, healthier life in 2023. We may already be trying lifestyle changes (daily meditation, giving up dairy), but for most of us the greatest gains to be had are in sleeping better. Regardless of your specific goal – whether it be to lose weight, reduce stress, get fitter, advance at work, or be a better friend or partner – it is hard to achieve anything when you have had insufficient sleep. [Read More]

Trump says he is innocent of fraud as bomb threat upends last day of trial | Donald Trump

 Posted on June 7, 2024  |  5 minutes  |  990 words  |  Valentine Belue

Donald Trump speaks at one of his properties following closing arguments in his civil fraud trial in New York. ‘I am an innocent man,’ he told the judge. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesDonald Trump speaks at one of his properties following closing arguments in his civil fraud trial in New York. ‘I am an innocent man,’ he told the judge. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesDonald TrumpTrump says he is ‘innocent’ of fraud as bomb threat upends last day of trialPolice called to judge’s home on Long Island before ex-president lashes out in court and claims ‘what happened here is fraud on me’ [Read More]