Missy Elliott’s career-defining song, as the rap legend announces her first headlining tour
Arwa Haider Features correspondent Alamy Missy Elliott at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame after party in New York City on 3 November, 2023 (Credit: Alamy) As Missy Elliott announces her first headlining tour, a look at the 2001 song that proved a gamechanger for the rap legend. It’s hard to believe that she’s […]
St Albans walking group aims to expand to other towns and cities
Alex Pope & Babs Michel BBC News, Hertfordshire Women Who Walk Lisa Collins (left) and Sophie Curthoys met at university and have been close friends ever since A free female walking group is hoping to expand to other towns and cities to help women “find their tribe”. Women Who Walk was started in St Albans […]
What our descendants will deplore about us
Tom Chatfield Features correspondent Will our descendants abhor our refusal to banish nuclear weapons? (Thinkstock) How will the future view us? Tom Chatfield asked some of the world’s best minds, and discovered that we will be seen as barbaric in ways we may not even realise. I had a discussion that made me ask a […]
The women doing sex work to make ends meet
Frankie McCamley & Bethan Bell News Correspondent BBC The BBC spoke to some some sex workers in London Violence has always stalked the streets where sex is bought and sold and sometimes just taken. Women employed in the “world’s oldest profession” face a very real danger. Jack the Ripper may have been consigned to history […]
Sarina Wiegman: English desire to win football tournament ‘like a trauma’
Wiegman first discovered football on the streets of the Hague, playing alongside her twin brother as there were no girls-only teams. She was called up by the Netherlands for the first time in 1986, aged 16, and went on to become the first Dutch woman to make 100 appearances for her country. As coaching in […]
Women’s World Cup 2023: Asisat Oshoala’s journey from rebellious teenager to Africa’s star player
Asisat’s struggle to persuade her family to let her become a footballer inspired her to open an all-girls football school in Lagos last year, the Asisat Oshoala Academy. On its website, she says she is committed to paving the way for others: “I have always strived to give back to the girls in my community […]
Women’s World Cup: Rita Ora, Al Greenwood & The Hoosiers predict winners
Who will win the World Cup? Irwin: The United States are still the team to beat. Al and I met when we were on football scholarships at Indiana University in 2001 and, the first time we trained, we got an insight into how big the women’s game was in the US. There were so many […]
England v Denmark: Keira Walsh says England boss Sarina Wiegman wants her to take responsibility
England midfielder Keira Walsh says she feels more responsibility on the pitch under manager Sarina Wiegman. Walsh, 26, was one of the stars of Euro 2022, completing a world-record transfer to Barcelona shortly after the Lionesses won the tournament. In her debut season for Barcelona she won the Women’s Champions League and helped them retain […]
Women’s World Cup 2023: Players, coaches and BBC pundits predict winners
Winners: England or the USA England prediction: Final “England have got some of the best players in the world and we’re European champions, but going to a World Cup is so different. The travel, the opposition, being away from friends and family – it’s different to a home Euros where there is so much we […]
Women’s World Cup 2023 score predictions: Rachel Brown-Finnis predicts the second round of group games
I am expecting England to get better and better as this World Cup goes on, so this performance should be much improved on their win against Haiti. Even so, I am not anticipating the same kind of instant step-up we saw at last year’s European Championship, when the Lionesses went from a narrow victory over […]