Stewart Brand, an author and visionary, deeply influenced the internet era from the 1960s onward. Yet the systems he inspired have become fundamentally unintelligible to their creators. The Opinion ...

MUMBAI: The Mazgaon metropolitan magistrate's court on Wednesday rejected the bail application of three accused, including Khaliq Khan, father-in-law of cricketer Yusuf Pathan, in a road rage assault ...

Charmain Speirs was 40 years old when she met prophet Eric Adusah. For several years Charmain had been part of one of the fastest-growing Christian movements in the world, Pentecostalism. Through her ...

A self-proclaimed prophet with more than 20 "spiritual wives," including underage girls, was exposed after a couple gained his trust and secretly documented his world for investigators. The harrowing ...

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Netflix's latest true crime docu-series is primed for binge-watching by fans who are rapidly growing intrigued by the woman at the heart of the investigation. As subscribers continue to devour the ...

In Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet, documentarians in disguise help bring down a cult leader now serving a 50-year sentence Film-making effects change. Director Rachel Dretzin, a former ...

A man who declared himself a prophet and the heir to an imprisoned cult leader is the subject of a new Netflix documentary that follows a couple exposing his crimes. Samuel Bateman represented himself ...

Netflix’s Trust Me: The False Prophet is structured less as a conventional true crime retelling and more as a primary source reconstruction. Built around hundreds of hours of footage, recorded ...

The first time I meet Zia Yusuf we’re in a seafront hotel near the White Cliffs of Dover, the backdrop for so many of Britain’s hopes and fears about immigration. It is early in Ramadan and Yusuf is ...

Yusuf, 27, has played two Tests and one ODI for South Africa, as well as featuring across formats for Durham during a spell in county cricket last season. In first-class cricket, he has taken 131 ...