Sky News — African witchcraft was a "driving force" behind the torture and killing of a 15-year-old boy, a jury has been told. more info

Sky News — The weapons used in the alleged torture of a 15-year-old boy suspected by family members of being a witch have been shown to a jury. more info

Sky News — A 21-year-old woman has screamed in court that her own sister "deserved to die" for taking part in the torture of their brother. more info

Sky News — A teenage boy tortured by relatives who suspected he was a witch was not their first victim, a jury has been told. more info

Sky News — A 15-year-old boy who died from "unspeakable savagery and brutality" was attacked by relatives who believed he was a sorcerer involved in witchcraft, a court has heard. more info

Guardian Music — When occult rock rose from the darkness 40 years ago, it seemed truly eerie. Maybe its power has been diluted, but new purveyors such as Ghost can still thrill and chill'When you see TV footage of the 1960s or early 70s, going to a meeting of a cove... more info

Aquarium Drunkard — The above still, taken from 1955′s Rebel Without A Cause, was expertly used as the cover art to the woefully out-of-print, left of the dial rockabilly compilation, Teenage Repression. One of the (many) highlights of the set is the Blue Echoes “It... more info

Guardian Music — (Quietmoney) British singer/pianist Liane Carroll comes from the opposite end of the jazz-vocals galaxy to Gretchen Parlato. She's a powerful, soul-inflected performer with an Ella Fitzgerald-like improv athleticism and an emotional frankness on ball... more info

Guardian Music — (Linn)It's hard to believe that it was almost six years ago that they first got together. It seemed so unlikely at the time, this song-and-piano partnership between a notably feisty jazz vocalist and an esteemed composer. But now it's accepted that t... more info

Scotsman.com — **** Linn AKD 359, £13.99 more info