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A well-loved security guard has been hailed a hero after he was shot and killed while responding to a home invasion in Bergvliet. Police confirmed they have yet to make an arrest for the murder of Alexander “Chris” Bottomley from Pro-Sec Technologies Security Company. Bottomley had been responding to a panic alarm and saved the […]
The contribution to history of Black women has often been overlooked, so it’s always heartening when a film-maker attempts to redress the balance. Theodore Melfi did it with Hidden Figures (2016), which dramatised the role played by three Black female mathematicians in Nasa’s 1960s space programme. Now writer-director Tyler Perry (best known for Diary of […]
HANGZHOU, Dec. 5 (Xinhua) — A memorial dedicated to Chinese fishermen who saved hundreds of British prisoners of war (POWs) during the Lisbon Maru incident 82 years ago was unveiled on the site of the rescue in east China’s Zhejiang Province on Thursday. Designed and made by the China Academy of Art, the memorial captures […]