Jane Ross backs Manchester City to reach Champions League final
Scotland striker Jane Ross believes Manchester City can overcome defending champions Lyon to reach the final of the Champions League. The sides meet in the first leg of their semi-final at the Etihad Stadium on Sunday. Ross, who scored two goals in their quarter-final defeat of Swedish side Linkopings, is confident they can reach the […]
Mark Field suspended as minister after grabbing activist
Greenpeace activist says Mark Field actions ‘over the top’ Mark Field has been suspended as a Foreign Office minister after grabbing a female Greenpeace activist at a black-tie City dinner. The MP has apologised for confronting Janet Barker and marching her away as protesters interrupted a speech by Chancellor Philip Hammond. Ms Barker suggested Mr […]
Ryan Adams: FBI investigates sexually-explicit texts
Getty Images The star’s latest album has been “put on hold” in light of the allegations The FBI is examining whether singer-songwriter Ryan Adams committed a crime by sending sexually-explicit messages to an underage fan. One of them, identified only as “Ava”, showed reporters more than 3,000 explicit texts she said she exchanged with the […]
‘No-one asks new dads how they’re feeling at work’
Dave Edwards Dave Edwards holds his young son Dave Edwards says his son was born screaming and didn’t stop for 12 months. It was a tough introduction to parenting for the 33-year-old who spent those early days at home on paternity leave. Severely sleep deprived, he returned to his job in human resources five weeks […]
The Indian who became the first female doctor in the UAE
BBC Zulekha Daud began practising medicine in the UAE when the city had barely any infrastructure Indian national Zulekha Daud is widely understood to be the first practising female doctor in the United Arab Emirates and has played a crucial part in transforming its healthcare sector. She met BBC Hindi’s Zubair Ahmed. Dr Daud, 80, […]
The divisive debate over California’s anti-caste bill
Prem Pariyar Senator Aisha Wahab authored and introduced the SB-403 bill in March A bill introduced to make caste discrimination illegal in California is set to come up for discussion in the state assembly this week. Savita Patel, a California-based independent journalist, speaks to those supporting and opposing the bill becoming a law. Sukhjinder Kaur*, […]
Director says 2017 ‘wasn’t a turning point’ for Hollywood
Getty Images Lili Fini Zanuck has directed a new documentary about rock legend Eric Clapton Last year wasn’t a turning point for women in Hollywood, according to the producer behind the multi-Oscar winning film Driving Miss Daisy. Lili Fini Zanuck, who was only the second woman to ever win a best picture Oscar when she […]
‘I don’t want “Daddy’s little princess” on my T-shirt’
SINEAD – I live in a world that as a little person, as somebody with dwarfism, so much of the physical environment is just not designed for me, which means I spend a lot of my day making myself publicly vulnerable, asking strangers for help in order to have agency and independence. KATE – Sinead […]
Online posts ‘transform’ war crimes documentation
How do you prove a war crime has been committed? Images posted online will be crucial in prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine, according to UK legal experts. A law professor said the use of bomb footage from Yemen during a mock war crimes trial showed how images shared online had “transformed” the documentation of atrocities. […]
Caption mix-ups ‘show lack of respect’ for black MPs
Getty Images Bell Ribeiro-Addy was wrongly captioned as Marsha de Cordova The media keeps mistaking black women MPs for each other because it does not respect them as much as their white counterparts, a Labour MP has said. The Evening Standard used a picture of Bell Ribeiro-Addy in a story about fellow Labour MP Marsha […]