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Parents blast school after it BANS jumpers until October

Parents blast school after it BANS jumpers until October

Published by Sam Flores

Parents have criticised a secondary school in Leicestershire, UK, after it banned pupils from wearing jumpers until October, with some students reportedly placed in isolation for breaking the rule. Lutterworth High School introduced the policy after Easter, prompting complaints that children are cold, uncomfortable and unfairly punished. Some parents described the move as “draconian”, while the school said jumpers are a winter‑only item and uniform changes are under review. Source link

Russell Brand Rape Trial Start in London Pushed Back to October

Russell Brand Rape Trial Start in London Pushed Back to October

Published by Daniella Wilson

The start of a London trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault against disgraced comedian and actor Russell Brand has been pushed back from mid-June to October. The 50-year-old is accused of three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault, with six women alleging crimes dating from 1999 to 2009. Brand has denied all the charges. Last month, he appeared at Southwark Crown Court in central London to enter a not guilty plea to two more alleged incidents with two separate women in the British capital in 2009. The first charges against Brand were brought in April 2025 with alleged offenses against four women. His trial was so far set to start on June 16 at Southwark Crown Court. During a hearing on Monday, Justice Joel Bennathan unveiled a delay of the start of the trial, saying it would now kick off on Oct. 12, Sky News reported. Brand was not present in the court for Monday’s hearing, but was represented by his lawyer. At the hearing, the judge officially …

Russell Brand Rape Trial Start in London Pushed Back to October

Russell Brand Rape Trial Start in London Pushed Back to October

Published by Daniella Wilson

The start of a London trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault against disgraced comedian and actor Russell Brand has been pushed back from mid-June to October. The 50-year-old is accused of three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault, with six women alleging crimes dating from 1999 to 2009. Brand has denied all the charges. Last month, he appeared at Southwark Crown Court in central London to enter a not guilty plea to two more alleged incidents with two separate women in the British capital in 2009. The first charges against Brand were brought in April 2025 with alleged offenses against four women. His trial was so far set to start on June 16 at Southwark Crown Court. During a hearing on Monday, Justice Joel Bennathan unveiled a delay of the start of the trial, saying it would now kick off on Oct. 12, Sky News reported. Brand was not present in the court for Monday’s hearing, but was represented by his lawyer. At the hearing, the judge officially …

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650 | Gaza

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650 | Gaza

Published by Sam Flores

Of all their seven children, Abed Elrahman Hamdouna’s parents worried about him the most during the war in Gaza. Hamdouna was a volunteer ambulance driver in northern Gaza, “risking his life to help people who were injured”, says his father, Hosny Hamdouna. They knew about the repeated Israeli attacks on Gaza’s health facilities which have claimed the lives of hundreds of healthcare workers. So when a ceasefire was reached in October 2025, they were cautiously relieved. But that relief turned to shock after Hamdouna, a 31-year-old father of two, was killed in a reported drone strike west of Gaza City two weeks ago, as he was on his way to a family Ramadan iftar, to break fast with his brothers. His death is a shocking reality check on the large numbers of civilians that continue to die in Gaza. Since the ceasefire was announced on 10 October last year, Israel has killed 677 and injured a further 1,800 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s health ministry. Israeli strikes in Gaza have averaged about 10 a day across …

Vatican to host global summit on marriage, family in October

Vatican to host global summit on marriage, family in October

Published by Sam Flores

VATICAN CITY (RNS) — On the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia,” Pope Francis’ 2016 apostolic exhortation on marriage and family, Pope Leo XIV announced he will hold a gathering of presidents of bishops’ conferences at the Vatican to address the same topics in October. In a letter on Thursday (March 19), Leo said young people especially need spiritual support to recognize the value of marriage and families. He also recognized the many challenges facing families today. The summit, he wrote, will be “an effort to proceed, in mutual listening, to a synodal discernment on the steps to be taken in order to proclaim the Gospel to families today, in light of Amoris Laetitia and taking into account what is currently being done in the local Churches.” Francis wrote his document on the family after two Vatican summits of bishops, called synods, and a Jubilee Year of Mercy. A controversial footnote in the document sparked backlash by conservative Catholic prelates for its cautious openness to allowing Communion for divorced or civilly remarried Catholics through spiritual accompaniment. …

Israeli strikes kill at least 30 across Gaza in one of highest tolls since October ceasefire

Israeli strikes kill at least 30 across Gaza in one of highest tolls since October ceasefire

Published by Sam Flores

Hospitals in Gaza said Israeli strikes killed at least 30 Palestinians Saturday, one of the highest tolls since the October ceasefire aimed at stopping the fighting. A day after Israel accused Hamas of new ceasefire violations, strikes hit locations throughout Gaza, including lethal ones on an apartment building in Gaza City and a tent camp in Khan Younis, officials at hospitals that received the bodies said. The casualties included two women and six children from two different families. An air strike also hit a police station in Gaza City, killing at least 14 and wounding others, Shifa Hospital director Mohamed Abu Selmiya said. The series of strikes also came a day before the Rafah crossing along the border with Egypt is set to open in Gaza’s southernmost city. All of the territory’s border crossings have been closed throughout almost the entire war. Palestinians see Rafah as a lifeline for the tens of thousands in need of treatment outside the territory, where the majority of medical infrastructure has been destroyed. To display this content from YouTube, …

Editor’s note for the October issue of Los Angeles Times Image

Editor’s note for the October issue of Los Angeles Times Image

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. As a teenager I thoroughly decorated my bedrooms. There was the crescent moon lamp that hung on the wall by my bed in a sky of lipstick shades and makeup brushes that I cut from issues of Allure and Elle. There was the other wall completely covered in photos of friends and family, which I affixed with blue tack, pulling out the ladder once I’d reached the ceiling. Above my desk, I made an imaginary city out of magazine cut-outs in which the right half of George Clooney’s face formed a jagged skyscraper. In college, I hung paper seahorses from the ceiling and handwrote poems which I taped below the window by my bed. It was never too much, or rather, it wasn’t ever enough. I wanted to put myself up on those walls and be seen. I have since striven to carry this maximalist spirit with me into adulthood, and for a long while I was made …

Artist Georgina Treviño takes us behind the making of our October issue flag

Artist Georgina Treviño takes us behind the making of our October issue flag

Published by Sam Flores

This story is part of Image’s October Abundance issue, reveling in indulgence, maximalism and the deliciously impractical. This flag is a continuation of the sculptures I started doing using jewelry itself as a medium. I’ve been collecting jewelry that people have donated to me. I do an open call where people can send me bags of jewelry, discarded jewelry, jewelry that doesn’t work for them anymore, or it’s broken or they hate it because it’s vintage. Not only have I been collecting from people, but also constantly on my travels. I always look for jewelry that I could repurpose from flea markets, from the swap meets. The meaning behind it is really beautiful. I think about who owned this jewelry, the stories that come with the jewelry — your grandma’s earring could be there. I think the stories that each piece carries, and also the energy that might carry, is so cool. It’s not just putting a bunch of jewelry in a piece, but it’s being conscious and also curating what kind of jewelry is …

Art exhibitions and fashion releases that should be on your radar in October

Art exhibitions and fashion releases that should be on your radar in October

Published by Sam Flores

“Inebria Me” by San Cha at REDCAT “Inebria Me” by San Cha will show at REDCAT this month. (Jingzi Zhao) Take the melodramatic storyline of a telenovela and tell it through the unabashed mediums of opera and drag, and you’ll have “Inebria Me,” the subversive experimental opera by San Cha ending its West Coast tour at REDCAT this month. Latin dance fuses with queer storytelling as the sounds of ranchera, punk, classical and electronic make up the performance, which pulls from creator San Cha’s 2019 album “La Luz de la Esperanza.” As the story follows tragic beauty Dolores through a tumultuous relationship and her rediscovery of freedom, “Inebria Me” aims to free the opera genre from familiar perspectives and introduce a boldly Latin approach to the art form. Showing Oct. 16-18. Tickets now on sale at redcat.org. Chloé Le Parfum For those familiar with Chloé’s signature scent, woodsy and floral simplicity in an amber bottle, this new fragrance from the brand is a more intensely citrus take. Named the “most powerful yet” from Chloé’s releases, …

The best movies to see in Los Angeles in October 2025

The best movies to see in Los Angeles in October 2025

Published by Sam Flores

Though on first glance this pairing seems an unlikely double bill, the fine folks at the New Beverly know what they’re doing, and this will make for an evening of subliminal messages and energizing subversion. Directed by John Carpenter (who also wrote the screenplay under a pseudonym), 1988’s “They Live” comes on like an alien invasion B-movie about a drifter (wrestler-turned-actor Roddy Piper) who becomes part of the resistance, but reveals itself to be an angry rebuke of Reagan-era greed. 2001’s “Josie and the Pussycats,” written and directed by Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont, is an uproarious satire of pop culture consumerism as a small-time rock band (Rachael Leigh Cook, Tara Reid and Rosario Dawson) come to realize the true aims of the record company that shoots them to stardom. (Parker Posey and Alan Cumming are camp delights as nefarious executives.) Though both movies are very much of their respective moments, they sadly still have a lot to say about our current one. “They Live” is playing with “Josie and the Pussycats” on Oct. 10, …