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Furious row over plans to turn David Bowie's childhood London home into a tourist attraction

Neighbours in quiet south London suburb battling plans that could lead to thousands of Bowie fans ‘invading’ their street each year

Evening Standard · Aug 26

Woman seeks compensation from South Korea over her forced adoption to France in 1984

A South Korean woman adopted to France in 1984 without her parents' consent is seeks compensation from South Korea's government

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2025

A South Korean mother sues the government and an agency over the adoption of her missing son

A 72-year-old mother has filed a lawsuit against South Korea’s government and its largest adoption agency, alleging systematic failures in her forced separation from her toddler son who was sent to Norway without her consent

The Independent UK · May 26, 2025

South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroad

A 70-year-old South Korean woman on Monday sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four

The Independent UK · Oct 7, 2024

Rampant adoption fraud separated generations of South Korean children from their families, AP finds

The South Korean government, Western countries and adoption agencies worked in tandem to satiate intense demand for adoptable babies in the West, despite years of evidence they were being procured through questionable or downright unscrupulous means, an investigation led by The Associated Press has found

The Independent UK · Sep 19, 2024

Our wonderful aged care workers recognised for their hard work

They will be celebrated at an awards ceremony at the National Gallery in September

The Canberra Times · Aug 9, 2024

Slashed painting owned by Stephen Fry’s mother tells chilling story of fleeing from Nazis

1920s canvas of Dutch woman, to be shown for first time at Holt festival, has slit from border guards’ bayonets

The Guardian - UK · Jul 8, 2024

Stephen Rubin, publisher of 'The Da Vinci Code' and other blockbusters, dies at 81

Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive with an eye for bestsellers and a passion for music and public life, has died

The Independent UK · Oct 15, 2023

‘Korea is hiding our past’: the adoptees searching for their families – and the truth

Amid allegations of a corrupt adoption system in Seoul that falsified children’s records, those sent to Denmark as youngsters are desperate to find out their real stories

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

They did DNA tests to verify they were sisters. By accident, they found their birth father.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Other than the fact that they both are clearly Asian, Becca Webster and Dee Iraca don’t look alike.

Tribune News Service · Jun 20, 2023