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Senegals highly prized ladoum rams in pictures | World news

Sheep are an important commodity in Senegal, where more than half the population lives in the countryside and many city dwellers retain a close connection to their native villages. Sylvain Cherkaoui took his mobile studio to meet some of the proud owners who posed with their animals

Enron widow hits out at documentary | Movies

The widow of a former Enron top executive who killed himself after the company fell apart last night challenged how her husband was portrayed in a new documentary. The film, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, opens with a dramatisation of the company's former vice-chairman J Clifford Baxter's suicide in 2002. Later, Fortune Magazine

Jon Ronson's The Psychopath Test adapted for Scarlett Johansson thriller | Movies

Al Gores daughter Kristin Gore is to adapt the book by British investigative writer Jon Ronson, which explores the slippery definition of psychopathy The Psychopath Test, a book by British writer Jon Ronson which delves into the definition of psychopathic behaviour and the real-life people affected by it, is to be adapted into a thriller

Samsung reveals truth of heiress's suicide | World news

At first glance she seemed to have everything. An heir to the Samsung Electronics conglomerate, Lee Yoon-hyung seemed happy and outgoing. But this month the 26-year-old was found hanging in her Manhattan apartment, and now questions are being asked about why Samsung initially claimed she had died in a car crash.

Thirteen-year wage dispute between NYC and Staten Island ferry workers set to end | New York

Ferry captains, mates and engineers appear to be reaching deal after more than a decade without a union contract with the city One of the lengthiest wage disputes in the US is reported to be drawing to an end, as Staten Island ferry captains, mates and engineers appeared to be reaching a deal after 13