As The Russians Roll In, One Lone Family Strolls In Mariupol's Ruins
I had a deal for two books - one on Helen of Troy and the other on Socrates. I also did three television series in that year. Overall, I think I earned £75,000. But I was working at least 80 hours a week. My kids called my books 'the treacherous books' because they hated the fact that the door of my study was closed when I was writing.
As Russia's defence ministry said its forces were 'tightening the noose' around the city, a woman called Svitlana gave a harrowing account of her flight from the city - and the horrors faced by those who have chosen, or been forced, to stay.
Shelling has hampered efforts to rescue hundreds of civilians, including women and children, who are believed trapped in the bombed ruins of the Drama Theatre, destroyed by a Russian air strike on Wednesday despite the word 'Children' being clearly written on the square outside to alert pilots.
Scotland Yard is set to wind up its investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance, according to reports. The Sun claimed last night that funding for the Operation Grange inquiry - launched four years after the Portuguese police began their unsuccessful search for the youngster in 2007 - will end later this year unless new lines of inquiry emerge
If there's one thing history teaches you, it's cause and effect. It is so easy to end up homeless in a couple of steps. And it's incredibly difficult to fulfil your potential if you don't have a home.
Brueckner also is alleged to have admitted abducting Madeleine to a friend - and the German team of investigators, led by public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters, said they were certain he had killed the three-year-old.
That's not even factoring in the strangeness of pandemic teaching, from Zoom lessons to ever-shifting health guidelines, which has taken a toll. "I don't know how much longer we will have teachers who will put up with the pressures coming from all different angles," a middle school teacher from Austin, Texas, told CNET's Antonio Ruiz-Camacho. In a feature story this week, Ruiz-Camacho digs into how the teaching profession can hold it together and maybe not get rocked by the Great Resignation that's swept through other fields.
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Detectives are said to be frustrated by the failure to compile sufficient evidence to prosecute Christian Brueckner (pictured), a convicted paedophile, who was named two years ago by German police as the prime suspect for Madeleine's abduction
Where will it hit? There is no food, no medicine. When there will be no more snow people won't be able to go out for water. The dead are not taken out. The police recommend to open the windows and put the corpses on the balcony.'
'The letter did not state that there was evidence or proof that Madeleine is dead, the MPS continues to investigate Madeleine's disappearance as a missing person investigation. No letter has been received by the Met from the German prosecutor.'
Lily was diagnosed with Rett syndrome - a cruel, life-limiting disease - following a year of tests.The condition, which affects the development of the brain, can cause severe physical and mental disability
Teaching is hard work. Don't believe me? You try keeping the attention of two dozen or more kids -- second graders, high school sophomores, doesn't matter -- and guiding them through the lesson plans you crafted and refined, through five or six classes a day, without much real break time, working pretty much solo. Oh yeah: The pay's lousy.
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'My family was in the bomb shelter of High School No 2. Three days ago a shell shattered some of the windows. A woman was wounded in her hip. She laid all night on the first floor asking for someone to give her poison so that she would not feel the pain.'
'If either of my children came to me unsure of their gender, I'd be supportive. It's such a complicated issue, and I don't know that I'd encourage a full sex change before the age of 21, but I'd want to encourage them to embrace who they are.'
The Sun claimed last night that funding for the Operation Grange inquiry - launched four years after the Portuguese police began their unsuccessful search for the youngster in 2007 - will end later this year unless new lines of inquiry emerge.
