A magnitude 6.8 quake struck on Friday night killing at least 2,000 people by Angelique Chrisafis, Faisal Ali, Glenn SwannA powerful earthquake in Morocco has hit several towns and cities, killing at least 2,000 people and leaving scores of others homeless. The search for survivors is ongoing. When and where did the earthquake happen?The magnitude 6.8 quake struck shortly after 11pm local time on Friday, collapsing stone buildings and jolting people from their beds across a wide area.

FilmReviewAnime tells a familiar tale about boyhood friendship and childhood gangs but does so with genuinely intense feeling Here is a beautifully gentle and melancholy coming-of-age YA adventure from the Japanese animator Atsuko Ishizuka. The story will be instantly familiar: a tale of boyhood friendship coming to an end – or shifting into a new phase perhaps, less intense. There is nothing new to see here, and yet it’s a deeply felt film, romantic and earnest about childhood.

Life and styleHair is considered a sacred part of the body in my tribe, and why Mom left me her hair, but I couldn’t give her anything July marks one year since we buried my mother. She departed this world far too soon in February 2021 – she wasn’t even 62. Several months after her passing, I found a plastic bag with her hair in it, along with a note she’d written in 2013, explaining that she left this lock – so soft and matted flat – for when she moved on to the other side.

ReligionObituaryJohn O'DonohueFormer Catholic priest turned visionary bestselling authorThe philosopher and poet John O'Donohue believed that it is within our power to transform our fear of death so that we need fear little else this life brings. That he has died, unexpectedly in his sleep at 52, robs the world of a genuinely original religious mind who, almost accidentally, became a bestselling writer and public speaker. For a priest and academic who spent most of his time living in solitude in a remote spot on the west of Ireland, O'Donohue was as startled as anyone else by his success.

New Orleans This article is more than 8 months oldLouisiana man wrongly convicted of rape released after 29 years in prisonThis article is more than 8 months oldPatrick Brown, 49, was sentenced to life without parole after being accused of raping his young stepdaughter in December 1994 A Louisiana man who served 29 years for a crime he did not commit has been released from prison after it was revealed in court that the victim had told the prosecutors in New Orleans for over two decades that the man was innocent, but she was repeatedly ignored.