A pensioner has been detained indefinitely for stabbing his wife to death after fearing an imagined £22,000 debt to a loan shark would leave them homeless. Hugh Webber, 79, stabbed wife Angela, 77, a total of 15 times at their home in the village of Dunster, Somerset. Webber – who suffers from dementia – was […]
WASHINGTON — Tucked into Congress’s voluminous stimulus package are significant changes to higher-education law, including the resumption of federal financial aid to prison inmates that was banned in the 1994 crime bill championed by then-Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. The restoration of Pell grants for prisoners is something of a watershed moment for the criminal […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – Organisers of the Beijing autoshow, which was scheduled to be held in late-April, said on Friday the event would be held between Sept. 26 and Oct. 5 due to the coronavirus pandamic. Several other auto shows globally have been cancelled or postponed due to the outbreak, including those in New York, Geneva […]
