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Menstrual hygiene has emerged as a serious, and often emotional, subject in Africa, where some experts say governments must supply free sanitary pads to schoolgirls who often are at risk of dropping out because of embarrassment. The issue recently became politically charged in Uganda when a prominent academic was jailed for calling President Yoweri Museveni “a pair of buttocks” after the government broke a promise to provide free sanitary pads to schoolgirls across the country. Last month, Kenya’s... Читать дальше...

Tom Carew, known with affection as “the mad Irishman,” was a British special operations officer during World War II. Specifically, he was a Jedburgh, one of 300 officers dropped behind enemy lines to train guerrilla fighters. To understand his military history required archival deep-diving, while plumbing the (relatively) peaceful years involved sifting through diaries and letters, sorting out generations of mismatched marriages (temperament, class), and engaging in capacious acts of empathy and imagination. Читать дальше...

Relieved, intrigued, we think: I’m in — like falling happily into step alongside someone we’ve just met, because their conversation feels provocative and promising. “Pages for Her” is a sequel — 20 years on, in its characters’ lives — to “Pages for You” (2001), which made a significant splash as a kind of erotic bildungsroman, tracking then-18-year-old Flannery’s sexual (and intellectual) awakening in an intense affair with her then-teaching assistant, the sharply beautiful, imperious Anne Arden. Читать дальше...

The Senate judiciary committee invited both men to appear next Wednesday.

[...] some recent American Jewish fiction imagines a dire fate for the Jewish state itself. Using the rampant bigotry as ambience for a dark and deadly comedy of bad manners, Levinson focuses on the Jacobsons, a Jewish family that is unhappy in its own miserable way. The patriarch, 70-year-old Julian Jacobson, is an abusive, self-centered bully to his long-suffering wife, Roz, and their three children. Mo, 42, a frustrated movie actor, cuckolded husband of a woman named Pandora, and doting father of a set of twins and a set of triplets... Читать дальше...

Before Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington was found dead on Thursday (June 20) from apparent suicide, the band had released a new music video for...

Selena Gomez blasts back to No. 2 on Billboard’s Social 50 chart (dated July 29) after teasing -- and subsequently releasing -- her newest...

A trio of American stars at the top and a 1,000-to-1 longshot in the running are just two of the storylines coming out of the first round of the 146th edition of The Open.

Tienduizenden mensen zijn gisterenavond in de Poolse hoofdstad Warschau op straat gekomen om te protesteren tegen de omstreden hervorming van het

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Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes is relieved his players have coped with the Europa League qualifiers so early in the season.

Special Counsel Robert Mueller is probing possible money laundering by Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign manager, as part of his investigation into Russian interference in the election, a new report said Thursday. The investigation by Mueller began just several weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal reported. The paper said Senate and House intelligence committees...

Broti Gupta imagines a humorous list of TV-show pitches in response to HBO’s green-lighting of “Confederate,” from the “Game of Thrones” creators.

FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the exhumation of Salvador Dali (all times local):

FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the exhumation of Salvador Dali (all times local):

FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the exhumation of Salvador Dali (all times local):

FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the exhumation of Salvador Dali (all times local):

FIGUERES, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the exhumation of Salvador Dali (all times local):

Gone were the tailored suits O.J. Simpson wore as a defendant two decades ago, replaced by prison blues. A contrite Simpson made the case for his rehabilitation.

Gone were the tailored suits O.J. Simpson wore as a defendant two decades ago, replaced by prison blues. A contrite Simpson made the case for his rehabilitation.

Over the past 15 years, the author has established her reputation as a deft storyteller with her impressive prose, economical delivery and skillful ventriloquism, convincingly inhabiting the perspectives of a wide array of characters. “Do Not Become Alarmed” opens with two cousins — film producer Liv and full-time mom Nora, who are traveling with their respective families on a luxury vacation: The cruise ship towered over the dock in San Pedro like an enormous white layer cake, or a floating apartment building. Читать дальше...

The FBI is warning parents to be safer about connected devices.