Cuba’s leadership is passing to a younger generation, with the last Castro leaving office and ending a 60-year family monopoly, but there is little other change as power remains firmly with the Communist Party. At a four-day party congress starting Friday, 89-year-old Raul Castro will relinquish the country’s most powerful position – that of party … Read more
Opera boss and former BBC executive admits corporation ‘over-caters’ to 60-year-old white men from the south Stuart Murphy, now boss of English National Opera, said the ‘tide had changed’ He added there’s ‘not lots’ for under-25s on ‘BBC airwaves apart from BBC3’ He was discussing corporation’s reinstatement of BBC3 as broadcast TV channel By Paul Revoir … Read more
Diego Maradona‘s doctor has tearfully denied any wrongdoing in his care of the late footballing icon as the police investigation into his death continues. Leopoldo Luque is being probed over medical negligence and police are treating the footballer’s death as a possible culpable homicide. But in his first media interview since police raided his home … Read more
A woman has been jailed for 13 years after killing her 60-year-old friend by pushing her down the stairs in a row over £200 owed for a cancelled Moroccan holiday. Rosalind Gray, 56, was once pictured on a mobility scooter with a brick in one hand, a walking stick in the other and a cigarette … Read more
Rosalind Gray, 56, who pushed her friend, 60, down the stairs after they fell out over a cancelled holiday to Morocco has been convicted of her manslaughter A 56-year-old woman who pushed her friend, 60, down the stairs after they fell out over a cancelled holiday to Morocco has been convicted of her manslaughter. Rosalind Gray, … Read more