A mentally disturbed software engineer who killed his mother as she ate breakfast and his father as he lay in bed has been jailed for at least five years and six months. “These terrible crimes were committed in tragic circumstances which ended the lives of the offender’s parents,” said Justice Peter Johnson in the NSW

FEATHERWEIGHT by Mick Kitson (Canongate £14.99, 304 pp) FEATHERWEIGHT by Mick Kitson (Canongate £14.99, 304 pp) In his acclaimed first novel, Sal, Kitson told the heart-rending survivalist tale of two young girls hiding out in rural Scotland to escape a harrowing home life. Featherweight puts us in the shoes of another precociously tough child heroine.

A husband accused of running a $15million fraud operation with his twin brother first came to police attention for allegedly using a rifle for a gender reveal with his wife. Twins Charbel and Elie Douna, 33, were arrested on February 17 in police raids across the Illawarra region, south of Sydney.   The directors of Albion

However Marcia graciously insisted that ‘I don’t want to say anything negative about anybody, honestly. It was my perception that somebody wasn’t so happy, but you never know what people have going on.’ “Everyone I know who is Asian has been a victim of violence or harassment, assault,” she told AFP in New York. “We