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According to IndiaToday, an 8-year-old boy named Ankit Kumar committed suicide on Wednesday after his father rebuked him for playing video games too much. His father says he reprimanded his son because his excessive gameplay was getting away from his schoolwork and studies.  He not only scolded Ankit for playing video games too much, but he also beat his other son for watching too much television. After rebuking both sons, he left to go to the market and his wife stepped out to go to a neighbor’s house. While they were away, Ankit used the television's table stand at his house to help him tie a rope around the iron bars of a window. When his parents returned, they came home to Ankit hanging from the window bars. Are games really to blame? According to IndiaToday’s article, it seems as though they think Ankit committed suicide because of the scolding his father had done before he left to the market; however, I want to question this. There is no real proof that one event wa...

treland’s abortion regime has been responsible for a litany of tragedies in recent years. The death of Savita Halappanavar, denied a life-saving abortion during her miscarriage; the state-sponsored abuse of Miss Y, a suicidal teenage asylum seeker and rape victim, forced to carry her pregnancy to viability and deliver by C-section; a brain-dead woman kept alive, effectively as an incubator, against her family’s wishes. And there are plenty more mundane, yet nonetheless heartbreaking, stories of approximately 12 women a day who travel to the UK to access abortion services. In the last year, something fundamental has shifted. The Irish pro-choice movement is getting loud. Actors and writers including Tara Flynn, Helen Linehan and Susan Cahill have shared their abortion stories, bravely breaking taboos. An “abortion bus” flouted the law to tour Ireland distributing medication. Comedian Gráinne Maguire had us all tweeting details of our periods to the taoiseach, Enda Kenny. Activist An...

Health Canada has confirmed it reviewed lab reports warning that dangerous chemicals not approved for any human use were found in cannabis sold at dispensaries in Vancouver, but took no action. Health Minster Jane Philpott issued a statement late Friday acknowledging that her staff had discussed the lab results with Tilray, a licensed producer of medical marijuana based in Nanaimo, B.C., that sent the warning to Health Canada. Dr. Philpott’s statement comes a day after the Health Minister was unclear about whether she had seen the lab results, telling The Globe and Mail, “I’m not sure what document you are referring to.” But in her statement on Friday, Dr. Philpott provided details of a meeting between her chief of staff, Geneviève Hinse, and executives of the medical marijuana company, in which the documents were discussed. “Tilray expressed concerns about illegal dispensaries and shared the results of lab work suggesting contamination of cannabis,” the minister said. “I was no...

TCHULA, MS (Mississippi News Now) - Creepy Clowns are roaming around Tchula. The police chief is sending out a warning tonight that he will not tolerate anyone terrorizing people in his town. "I am more afraid for the clown than I am for the citizens because pretty much everyone here has shotguns," said chief Kenneth Hampton. A rash of alleged creepy clown sightings have spread across the United States. Now it has hit Tchula and the chief says it is no laughing matter. "I still don't understand. I think it is some type trend," said Chief Hampton. "It is basically a bunch of idiots running around in clown suits without any regard for their life." The chief has received several complaints this week of people dressed in creepy costumes scaring those who live and work in the community. "My grandkids talking about a clown." said a Tchula resident. "I told them as long as I have blood running through my vain, they need not worry ...

The result of the Labour leadership election will be revealed this morning. The election of the Labour party's new leader saw a turnout of 77.6%. The result of the contest between Jeremy Corbyn and Owen Smith will be announced shortly before noon in Liverpool.

There's been a movement in two directions over the past few years in how movie trailers are edited and assembled. They've adapted to new media platforms and audience tastes to more effectively and efficiently sell movies to audiences, making sure to present a product that has maximum appeal, showing a movie that is absolutely worth … whatever the call to action is. That might be dropping $10 and three hours at the theater, it might be the cost of a VOD rental, it might be the decision to maintain or begin a Netflix or Amazon Prime subscription. Two bits of movie marketing from earlier this week show a couple of ways in which trailers are changing to get people's attention. First is the trailer for Passengers, the upcoming science-fiction romance starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The day before the full trailer was released, a teaser came out letting people know it was on its way. ...

the first major opera based on a film by Lars von Trier is set to debut this week, but don’t look for the famously provocative Danish director – and noted opera lover – to have a hand in the work itself. With Breaking the Waves, composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek have adapted von Trier’s bleak 1996 fable set in an insular Calvinist community on the coast of Scotland. The work that introduced the director to the world at large, and a modern arthouse classic, it establishes themes that became constants in his later films – religious piety and obsessive love endured by a suffering heroine. The work opens at Opera Philadelphia on Thursday. “One of the things I love about this film is that each of the characters is infinitely deep and incredibly complicated,” said Mazzoli, speaking at a recent preview for the opera at New York’s Guggenheim museum. “That’s a very attractive quality for opera.” Von Trier has periodically used opera’s heightened emotions in his films, no...