Adam Cayton-Holland/The New York Times I talked about everything in my life on stage. But suicide was definitely not funny. Everybody wants to talk to me about suicide. It’s my own fault, I suppose. Or maybe it’s my little sister Lydia’s fault. But there’s no point in assigning blame. Mostly I just miss her. Lydia…
Reuters: Iran said on Monday that Europe should accelerate its efforts to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned in May, as French oil group Total formally pulled out a major gas project. Efforts by the remaining signatories – EU members Britain, France and Germany plus…
Susan Kurdli/Al Jazeera Social and economic isolation of the Iranian people makes it even easier for hardliners to hold on to power. From the free fall of the Iranian rial, to street protests demanding regime change, to the death sentence pronounced by the US towards normalised trade following the abandonment of the JCPOA known as…
Kabir Humayun: At least six people were killed and eight others injured after a cattle truck crashed into a microbus on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway near Feni. Two of the dead are children and three are women. All of them are members of the same family, said Muhuriganj Highway Police Outpost Sub Inspector Md Mahbub Alam,…
Hindustan Times, India: In his latest media outburst, Meghan Markle’s father has attacked the British royal family for their secrecy and likened them to secret cults like Scientology. Thomas Markle, who has previously criticised the royals for cutting him out of his daughter’s life since her marriage to Prince Harry earlier this year,said the royals…
Desk Report: Bangladesh Cricket Board is looking to send some of the country’s leading cricketers to county cricket to hone their skill sets. To make headway in this regard, the board has asked newly appointed head coach Steve Rhodes to try and make some arrangements so that some of his charges have the opportunity to…
Arab News: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte thinks political dynasties are bad. But the way the prevailing political winds are blowing, it looks like a dynasty of his own might be taking shape. Nine months away from mid-term elections that could determine the success or failure of his presidency, his daughter, Sara Duterte, is fast emerging…
BBC: New Zealand’s minister for women has cycled to hospital to give birth to her first child at 42 weeks. The Green Party’s Julie Genter said she went by bicycle to be induced because “there wasn’t enough space in the car”. She posted pictures on Instagram of her and her partner enjoying the “beautiful Sunday…
Saba Ali/NDTV For a minute, it felt good, somewhat thrilling, to walk down Main Street exposed. I zipped past the family-friendly brunch district, footloose and fancy free. I’m a Muslim woman who’s worn a head covering for more than two decades, and I had decided to take my headscarf off for one sunny morning. Something…
CNN: A New Zealand lawmaker made her own way to a hospital to have her baby, covering the kilometers from her suburban home to a maternity ward on a bicycle. The move neatly ties together Green Party MP Julie Anne Genter’s roles as Minister for Woman and Associate Minister for Transport and for Health. Genter,…