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Ahal Besorai says he has had no word of sisters husband and two children taken hostage by Hamas A British-Israeli lawyer is holding out hope of being reunited with family held hostage by Hamas after being told the gunmen had murdered his sister.

In the 1970s, through 1980, the photographer Francesca Woodman made images of young women, most often herself, in a blurry, foggy, subliminal state. She called one famous series her ghost pictures. They were achieved through slow shutter speeds, which meant that instead of being the record of a blinked instant, they captured movement through time

There was no finer interpreter of Donizetti's, Verdi's and Puccini's tenor roles throughout his long career than Carlo Bergonzi, who has died aged 90. His singing of all three composers' music evinced an innate sense of how to mould an immaculate line projected on a long breath, an exemplary clarity of diction, and an authoritative

Morgue manager Cedric Lodge and his wife Denise allegedly took heads, brains, skin, bones and other human remains The manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School and three other people were indicted for allegedly selling human body parts stolen from the school and a morgue in Arkansas, according to a federal complaint.

Relaxing into the boredom, it occurred to me that moments like these might just be what life is all about It is a truism of parenting that it goes so fast, but as anyone who has been forced to sit on a bench and watch their children run tireless circuits of the playground knows, sometimes