ON FEBRUARY 15 last year, a woman walking along a beach in the Scilly Isles spotted a large whale close to shore. 

Long before Barack Obama wrote about the audacity of hope, Frederick Douglass lived it. Dan Buckley hails the greatness of a man whose only weapons were self-belief and powerful words

An alleged attack at a Massachusetts gay bar, the killing of an Arkansas officer and the killing of a mother of three – Jacob Robida left a streak of unexplained violence that ended in a fatal shootout with authorities.