Four men who gang-raped and murdered 23-year-old student Jyoti Singh on a Delhi bus in 2012 have today been hanged. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi early this morning, seven years after their crime which sparked worldwide protests. The victim’s mother Asha … Read more
Four men were hanged in India today for the gang-rape and murder of a woman on a Delhi bus in 2012 that sparked huge protests and worldwide revulsion. Akshay Thakur, Vinay Sharma, Pawan Gupta and Mukesh Singh were all hanged in the high-security Tihar prison in Delhi early this morning. The victim’s mother declared that … Read more
Take That’s Gary Barlow and Boyzone’s Ronan Keating team up via video link to perform a stirring duet of Baby Can I Hold You as they try to boost morale during self-isolation By Andrew Bullock For Mailonline Published: 15:03 GMT, 19 March 2020 | Updated: 15:35 GMT, 19 March 2020 Take That and Boyzone combined … Read more
HISTORY THE ZOOKEEPERS’ WAR by J.W. Mohnhaupt (S&S £18.99, 272 pp) Here’s a tale from the Cold War that’s little-known but deserves not to be. After World War II, as you know, Berlin was split into two. West Berlin was under the control of the Allies, while East Berlin was under the Soviet yoke, and an … Read more
The Bachelorette Clare Crawley urges more men to apply for her season after production was postponed due to coronavirus outbreak By Christine Rendon For Dailymail.com Published: 05:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 | Updated: 05:26 GMT, 18 March 2020 Last week, ABC unveiled the suitors who will be vying for Clare Crawley’s heart on The Bachelorette. … Read more
Men who have an older brother are more likely to be gay, new study suggests Researchers looked at almost 5,400 men across ten scientific studies for study Found those with an older brother were 38 per cent more likely to be gay The findings were from scientists led by the University of Toronto in Canada … Read more
HISTORY LADIES CAN’T CLIMB LADDERS by Jane Robinson (Doubleday £20, 368 pp) The British Press reported in the early 1930s that, ‘after exhaustive research’, professors in the psychology department of a German university had concluded that ‘women cannot calculate, and when confronted with abstract mathematical problems the female intellect breaks down entirely’. Margaret Partridge (1891-1967) … Read more
Macho men who conform to male gender roles are more likely to struggle and be isolated in old age, researchers have warned. Toxic masculinity – an attitude that incorporates a belief in ‘real men’ – impacts men’s social relationships, health, well-being and overall happiness, the study found. A sociologist at Michigan State University said that … Read more
With the salary differential reaching $16,000 in some regions, female techies remain at a significant disadvantage to their male counterparts, Dice report finds. Why more than half of women leave the tech industry Numerous challenges cause women in tech to leave their jobs. Here’s what it will take to get them to stay. It’s 2020, … Read more