The home secretary has been asked to show ‘compassion and decency’ in the case of a 13-year-old orphan who fled from gangsters in a former Soviet republic and now faces deportation. Giorgi Kakava, 13, was three when he fled to Glasgow, Scotland, from Georgia with his mother Sopio Baikhadze, who died in 2018. In July … Read more
An orphan whose family was killed after travelling to Syria to join ISIS has said he wants to return to England. Abdullah, 13, is stranded in a prison for minors in north-east Syria. He has been in camps and prisons since 2019, when Kurdish-led forces launched an attack against Baghouz. The town, located near the … Read more
Twilight alum Kristen Stewart is forced to pretend to be a ‘straight orphan’ for her closeted girlfriend Harper (Mackenzie Davis) in the first trailer for Happiest Season, which dropped Monday. In Clea DuVall’s PG-13 holiday rom-com, Harper waits until they’re about to pull up to her conservative Christian family’s house to tell Abby (Stewart) to … Read more
Open Orphan made national headlines this week after winning a multi-million pound UK government Covid-19 contract. While there are over a hundred companies working on vaccines, the pharma services specialist is part of much smaller group able to stage human challenge studies of these new inoculations. Open Orphan, which rocketed 450 per cent to 26p … Read more
Clucky love! Meg the cocker spaniel adopts orphan quail chick – and even lets the tiny bird sleep under her ear A cocker spaniel has become the ‘surrogate mother’ to an orphan quail chick Izzy Eyre, from Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland, was upset when her quail died The quail had laid eggs and one hatched after … Read more