Month: May 2019

As many as 70 people trying to reach Europe from Libya have drowned after their vessel capsized in the deadliest such incident in the Mediterranean “Up to 70 dead after boat capsizes trying to reach Europe from Libya”

Not all chickpeas are created equal. Many people I know say they don’t like them, but I’d argue that perhaps they haven’t tried the right “Anna Jones’ chickpea recipes”

Anita Hill on Friday freshly assailed Joe Biden’s handling of her 1990s sexual harassment allegations, in a new op-ed – and argues that the #MeToo “Anita Hill: Biden’s committee could have kicked off #MeToo decades ago”

Procedures to make penises larger do not work, are “ineffective and risky” and leave many men physically or psychologically scarred, research reveals, with an expert “Penis extensions don’t work, study finds”

As a teenager in the 1960s, I was part of the generation who considered masturbating and pornography a harmless outlet. These days, I see them “My life in sex: ‘I would get up at 5am and masturbate for hours’”

On 26 March, Lucetta Scaraffia sent a letter to Pope Francis. She was, at the time, the editor of the Vatican’s glossy women’s magazine Women “The Vatican editor who exposed the sexual abuse of nuns – and took on the Pope”

The comedian Freddie Starr has died aged 76 at his home in Spain, according to reports. Posts on social media pages claiming to belong to “Freddie Starr: comedian found dead at home in Spain aged 76”

Lost at the bottom of the North Sea almost eight millennia ago, a vast land area between England and southern Scandinavia which was home to “‘Reconstruction’ begins of stone age lands lost to North Sea”

“Privacy cannot be a luxury good offered only to people who can afford to buy premium products and services,” declared Sundar Pichai, the chief executive “My data security is better than yours: tech CEOs throw shade in privacy wars”

When Morten Vikeby saw reports that a “spy whale” from Russia had been found off the Norwegian coast, he immediately phoned his old fishery newspaper “Mystery of the missing whale: is it a Russian spy or child therapist?”