There were no formal eulogies for Constable Tanzeel Bashir but everyone who gathered for his funeral on Tuesday knew what the community had lost.
Constable Bashir, who took his own life last weekend, was farewelled with Islamic rites at Lakemba Mosque in Sydney’s south-west in a service attended by family, friends and colleagues.
The 23-year-old was remembered as a loving son and brother and widely respected police officer – who chose to go into the service to ‘help people’ following
Anne Heche spent a lifetime spent ‘searching,’ she once said. Searching for peace, happiness and love, while chasing idle dreams, addictions, and toxic relationships in a desperate attempt to fill the emptiness that plagued her from an itinerant childhood, and profoundly dysfunctional and deeply religious family.
Even as the on-screen star stepped into the Hollywood spotlight, she could not escape the darkness of her childhood, when she was sexually abused at the hands of her devout Baptist father, who gave
There is a certain alchemy by which canonical characters, especially the figures of children’s literature, come to exist outside of history. Stripped of their initial contexts, and cleansed of any outdated particularities, they seem to endure in an eternal present tense. Take, for instance, the nineteen-sixties’ most iconic underage sleuth, Harriet M. Welsch, a.k.a. Harriet the Spy. In 1996, Nickelodeon transported her out of the mid-century, with a goofy live-action film starring Michelle Trachtenberg. Animation lends itself more readily to
The devastated grandfather of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes Peter Halcrow (above), 61, of Dunkeld, Perthshire, said Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes have ‘forfeited their right to live’
The devastated grandfather of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes has said ‘no punishment could be enough’ for the youngster’s evil killers as he reconsiders his opposition to the death penalty.
Peter Halcrow, 61, of Dunkeld, Perthshire, said Emma Tustin and Thomas Hughes have ‘forfeited their right to live’ and should ‘never see the light of day again’ following
