Unreleased Johnny Cash album, Songwriter, is set for a posthumous release after being reworked by his son John Carter Cash.
The 11 songs, which were recorded as demos in 1993, have been stripped back to just Cash's signature bass-baritone voice and acoustic guitar by his and the late June Carter Cash's 54-year-old son.
Cash died, aged 71, in 2003, and he had recorded the tracks at LSI Studios in Nashville a decade prior to his passing.
The tapes were abandoned when Cash decided to record American Recordings with super-producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin. However, re-recordings of Drive On and Like A Soldier were used on that record.
His son said in a statement: "I wanted it to be songs that mostly people hadn't heard and that paid close attention to who he was as a songwriter and who he was as an American voice
It's been 434 days since the family of imprisoned Belarusian opposition figure Maria Kolesnikova heard from her, her relatives said overnight on the activist's 42nd birthday.
Kolesnikova, who was serving 11 years in prison for helping organise anti-government protests in Belarus in 2020, and other imprisoned opposition figures have been held incommunicado for months on end, raising fears for their wellbeing.
"It's the fourth birthday that Maria spends behind bars, and recently we received information that her health is deteriorating and we don't know if she's being treated at all," her sister Tatsiana Khomich told Belarusian media.
Khomich added that the last letter the family received from Kolesnikova came in February 2023, and bits and pieces of news about her trickle through other inmates.
Belarus was rocked by mass protests after an election in 2020 that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko his sixth term in office — a vote denounced by the West and the opposition as fraudulent
A 10-year-old boy awoke to find his parents and three brothers dead in their southwest Oklahoma City home, all fatally shot by his father, police said today.
"[The boy] woke up and discovered what had happened," said Sergeant Gary Knight, describing the scene as "carnage".
"Make no mistake about it, what happened in that residence was nothing short of a massacre," Knight said.
Police believe Jonathan Candy, 42, killed his wife, 39-year-old Lindsay Candy, and sons 18-year-old Dylan Candy, 14-year-old Ethan Candy and 12-year-old Lucas Candy.
He said Jonathan Candy then turned the gun on himself.
A South Korean man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for killing 76 cats in one of the country's most gruesome cases of animal cruelty in recent years.
The man, who is in his 20s, was convicted of violating South Korea's animal protection law last week, the Changwon District Court in southeastern South Korea said. The court did not release the name of the man.
The man went on a cat-killing spree between December 2022 and September 2023 due to a deep hatred of the animal that he began harbouring after other cats scratched his car, according to a court verdict seen by The Associated Press.
He caught stray cats and adopted others from online sites before strangling some to death and killing others with scissors, the court order said. He killed one cat by running it over with a car, the court said.
The court ruled that the prison sentence was unavoidable because he repeatedly committed "indescribably cruel" crimes in a premeditated manner
A Belgian man has been acquitted of drunk driving due to him having a rare condition where the body produces its own alcohol.
According to The Guardian, the man was acquitted in a Burges court today after it was found he has auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), a rare condition where the body produces its own alcohol.
The US National Library of Medicine defines ABS as "a very rare disorder" that "typically presents with the signs of alcohol intoxication, such as staggering gait, slurred speech, gastrointestinal distress, and state of confusion".
"It is characterised by the endogenous production of alcohol."
While people are not born with ABS, they can develop it after already having another intestine-related condition
Sign In Voyager 2023 media awards Home / World UPDATED Malaysian military helicopters collide and crash in training, killing all 10 people on board AP 23 Apr, 2024 05:28 PM Quick Read Save Share Play Video Associated Press 2 Malaysian military helicopters collide and crash while training, killing all people on board 3 hours ago 0:45 Two Malaysian military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session today, killing all 10 people on board, the navy said.
The helicopters were rehearsing at a naval base in northern Perak state for the navy’s 90th-anniversary celebration next month when the accident occurred, the navy said in a brief statement.
leading fashion designer whose accessories were used by celebrities from Britney Spears to the cast of the “Sex and the City” TV series was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty in Miami federal court on charges of smuggling crocodile handbags from her native Colombia.
Nancy Gonzalez was arrested in 2022 in Cali, Colombia, and later extradited to the US for running a sprawling multiyear conspiracy that involved recruiting couriers to transport her handbags on commercial flights to high-end showrooms and New York fashion events — all in violation of US wildlife laws.
"You were caught on the crossfire of childhood and stardom, Blown on the steel breeze. Come on you target for faraway laughter, Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine! You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon. Shine on you crazy diamond."
A family in Quebec is searching for answers after discovering that their father's remains didn't make it to Canada from Cuba, where he died while on vacation, and instead received the remains of another man.
A woman was in a "highly disordered mental state" when fleeing the scene of an accident after her speeding SUV slammed into a western Sydney home, killing the occupant, a court has heard.
Robyn Oxley was asleep in her St Marys residence when a Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Batoul Sleibi El Dirani barrelled through the front of the home on October 8, 2022.
The force of the impact threw the grandmother out of bed, through her back window and over a fence.
She was found in a neighbour's backyard by police, who unsuccessfully tried to revive her.
Sabreen Jouda came into the world seconds after her mother left it.
Their home was hit by an Israeli airstrike shortly before midnight Saturday (local time). Until that moment, the family was like so many other Palestinians trying to shelter from the war in Gaza's southernmost city of Rafah.
Sabreen's father was killed. Her 4-year-old sister was killed. Her mother was killed.
But emergency responders learned that her mother, Sabreen al-Sakani, was 30 weeks pregnant. In a rush at the Kuwaiti hospital where the bodies were taken, medical workers performed an emergency cesarean section.
A race car veered off the track and rammed into a crowd of spectators and race officials, killing seven people and injuring 20 others during a competition in Sri Lanka, officials said.
Why are most men that decide to mail me here are from Ireland? I don't expect them to be from Spain as most live far away, so why Ireland, and not England, France, Netherlands or anywhere else.
A young brother and sister died and several people were injured, some of them seriously, when a vehicle crashed into a young child’s birthday party today NZT at a Michigan boat club.
An 8-year-old girl and her 5-year-old brother died at the scene in the crash, when a 66-year-old woman crashed 7.6m into the building at about 3pm local time at the Swan Creek Boat Club in Berlin Township, about 50km south of Detroit, Monroe County Sheriff Troy Goodnough said.
A 10-year-old boy has confessed to an unsolved killing in Texas, telling investigators that he shot a man he did not know while the victim slept, authorities said Friday (local time).
The boy, who was just shy of his eighth birthday when the man was shot two years ago, has been evaluated at a psychiatric hospital but cannot be charged with the crime because of his age at the time, the Gonzales County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Texas law requires a child to be at least 10 years old to have criminal culpability. The boy is being held in juvenile detention for threatening a student on a bus in another incident earlier this month, authorities said.
Harry Styles' latest stalker has been jailed and barred from watching his gigs.
The former One Direction singer, 30, was targeted by 35-year-old Myra Carvalho, who was said in court to have bombarded him with 8000 cards in less than four weeks.
It's now emerged she was sentenced to 14 weeks behind bars after appearing at Harrow Crown Court – which sat at Hendon Magistrates' Court in London – where she pleaded guilty to a charge of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.
A restraining order lasting for 10 years was slapped on Carvalho, according to the Daily Mail, which also reported she was ordered not to attend any event where Harry was performing.
Dickey Betts, who died Thursday at age 80, really was born a ramblin’ man.
He left home at 16 to join the circus and became a renowned guitarist touring the world with the Allman Brothers Band. He wrote the group’s biggest hit, Ramblin’ Man, and remained on the road until he reached the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Betts died at his home in Osprey, Florida, his manager of 20 years, David Spero, said
A hunt for a huge crocodile is under way in the Torres Strait after a search for a missing 16-year-old boy ended in tragedy.
The teenager's body has been found at a remote far north Queensland island after a suspected attack by a crocodile at least 3.5m in size.
The teenager and a 13-year-old boy had attempted to swim ashore when their dinghy broke down off Saibai Island, 900km north of Cairns, early yesterday.
The boat was 500m from land when it had engine trouble and started taking on water in rough conditions.
The US Justice Department has agreed to pay approximately $100 million (NZD$169 million) to settle claims with about 100 people who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar
Indonesian authorities issued a tsunami alert on Wednesday after eruptions at Ruang Mountain sent ash thousands of feet high. Officials ordered more than 11,000 people to leave the area.
The volcano on the northern side of Sulawesi Island had at least five large eruptions in the past 24 hours, Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation said.
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Unreleased Johnny Cash album, Songwriter, is set for a posthumous release after being reworked by his son John Carter Cash.The 11 songs, which were recorded as demos in 1993, have been stripped back to just Cash's signature bass-baritone voice and acoustic guitar by his and the late June Carter Cash's 54-year-old son.
Cash died, aged 71, in 2003, and he had recorded the tracks at LSI Studios in Nashville a decade prior to his passing.
The tapes were abandoned when Cash decided to record American Recordings with super-producer and longtime collaborator Rick Rubin. However, re-recordings of Drive On and Like A Soldier were used on that record.
His son said in a statement: "I wanted it to be songs that mostly people hadn't heard and that paid close attention to who he was as a songwriter and who he was as an American voice