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Afrika Bambaataa denies accusations he sexually assaulted boys in the 1980s | Music

Hip-hop pioneer responds to claims from Ronald Savage and three other men by telling Fox 5 News: I never abused nobody Afrika Bambaataa has denied sexually abusing boys, after facing a series of allegations. In an interview with Fox 5 News in the US his first TV interview to address the accusations the

Andrea Levy obituary | Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy, who has died of cancer aged 62, gained wide recognition as a writer with the publication of her fourth novel, Small Island, in 2004. Intertwining the stories of two couples, one white British, the other Jamaican, and their struggles to survive and come to terms with one another in Britain during and after

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck by Jeff Kinney - review | Children's books

When Rowley gets a girlfriend, he ditches Greg. Greg now considers that finding new friends in middle school is hard, so he considers and thinks about what is going on around him, and then one day he finds a "magic" eight ball. He uses it to make all his decisions. He finds his mom's secret

Gone With the Wind prequel to tell Mammy's story | Fiction

Mammy, the slave devoted to her mistress Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind, is to be given her own back story by the author Donald McCaig, in what its publisher said was "a necessary correction" to how the black characters in Margaret Mitchell's bestselling novel are portrayed.

Haven by Emma Donoghue review a seventh-century Room

In early medieval Ireland, a priest and two monks struggle to preserve their humanity and their sanity in utter isolation All nations beguile themselves with stories, and Ireland has long been susceptible to the warm tingle of mythology. Some cherished beliefs, though, are not only comforting but at least partly true. For instance,