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A 90-year-old man who repeatedly stabbed his blind and frail wife while she slept because he could not cope with caring for her has been spared jail. Retired butcher Edward Turpin used a carving knife to attack Joan Turpin, 90, in bed at their home in Orpington, Kent, on September 22, 2021. She suffered several wounds, with one of the blows causing her lung to collapse. The Old Bailey heard it was "a matter of luck" she was not killed.   In a video interview recorded while she was in hospital, Mrs Turpin said: "He woke me up with the knife in my chest telling me he couldn’t take any more."   Mrs Turpin, who has lost her eyesight, suffers diabetes and needs a catheter, had become increasingly dependent on her husband’s help before the attack.    The court heard they had been happily married for nearly 70 years.   Mrs Turpin has been in a care home since the knife attack and is only able to speak to her husband over the telephone.  G...

Russian President, Vladimir Putin will not win the war in Ukraine despite his new order to mobilize thousands of extra troops, transatlantic military alliance, NATO has said.   In an address to Russians on Wednesday, September 21, Putin announced he would call up 300,000 reservists to fight in Ukraine and backed a plan to annex parts of the country, telling the West he was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend Russia.  "If the territorial integrity of our country is threatened, we will use all available means to protect our people - this is not a bluff," Putin said. Russia possesses "lots of weapons to reply," Putin added.     Responding to Putin's threats, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary general,   said the Russian leader's threat to use nuclear weapons was "dangerous and reckless rhetoric."   Stoltenberg, speaking to Reuters Editor in Chief Alessandra Galloni in New York, said that Russia's first mobilization sin...

Chris Ngige, minister of labour and employment has said that the court order directing the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to suspend its strike will not prevent negotiations with the lecturers on their demands.   The Minister said this while receiving members of the Nigerian Association of Medical and Dental Academics (NAMDA) in his office in Abuja.  Ngige also said “the government will order the vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors to reopen the universities in line with the court order.”   He said;    “The ruling is in the best interest of the nation. It is a win-win situation for all of us- government, students, lecturers- all Nigerians indeed. I have just gotten the court order asking ASUU to go back to work. It is a sound judgment. It is no victor, no vanquished. “You doctors in academics are for now members of ASUU, but, you are here, even though you have dissociated yourself and are working. We want to ...