Dina Averina, the gymnastics sensation on the middle of an Olympic gold medal choice that led to accusations of politically-motivated bias in opposition to Russia, has spoken of her ache and insisted that she simply needs solutions. ...

There’s a stunning similarity between the Taliban’s stance on defending ladies from their troopers’ aggressiveness and the politically right imaginative and prescient on the safety of girls from sexual assaults inflicting delayed traumas. ...

The WikiLeaks founder is so put upon that I hardly acknowledged him at first this week. The unrelenting cruelty that the UK and Britain are inflicting on him for exposing their struggle crimes is shameful. ...

BBC reporters say they have been ‘attacked’ in a ‘state-backed marketing campaign’ whereas masking floods in China. Can’t they see the backlash is from bizarre Chinese language fed up with the best way Western shops misrepresent their nation? ...

While you begin wishing dying on the unbelievers of crucial race idea, as a Virginia NAACP bigwig did lately, you will have left the realm of political debate and entered the world of non secular indoctrination. ...

Scientists have invented an instrument to see deeply into billions of Twitter posts -- offering an unprecedented, minute-by-minute view of recognition, from rising political actions, to Okay-pop, to rising ailments. The device -- known as the Storywrangler -- gathers phrases throughout 150 completely different languages, analyzing the rise and fall ...

England's gamers and supervisor deserve reward for a courageous marketing campaign and reaching their first remaining in 55 years. However proper on the final hurdle, they had been let down by the darkish underbelly of the English recreation, politics, and society. ...

A careless dose of Russophobia mixed with some force-fed pandering to the #MeToo motion are heavy crosses for Black Widow to bear. It’s a tepid enterprise which may preserve Marvel followers completely satisfied, however received’t win any new converts. ...

The story of efforts to preserve the endangered oribi in South Africa characterize a diaspora of points as various because the individuals who dwell there.

Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom have been mocked by conservatives for a hammed-up political advert warning America that democracy might be “useless” sooner or later except they assist some Democrat-pushed voting payments. ...