Born in 1989 in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania, Taylor Swift is country singer turned pop diva and a platinum-selling music superstar. Her grandmother had been a professional opera singer, and…

Dinais a highly experienced teacherwho has been practising and studying yoga for 25 years and teaching for 23 years. She was very fortunate to learn directly from Mr Iyengar and other world-renown…

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Scarlett Moffatt flanked by two Himba women Things here have become very tribal of late. The term has probably never been so fashionable. I just consulted the views of the…

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at theNew Frontierof Power.Shoshana Zuboff. PublicAffairs, 2019. 704pp.In his 1944 classic, The Great…

Masses of people have taken to the streets of Baghdad and several southern provinces, angry over corruption, poor public services and lack of jobs in the largest protests to hit Iraq since…

As unprecedented protests took over the streets of Lebanon- from the North, all the way to the South, through Beirut and the mountains, the Lebanese political class was taken by surprise. Years of…