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South Africa's girls routinely experience gender-based violence in their everyday lives. Here's why it still continues in schools — and how to tackle it.

Published April 4, 2021, 2:06 PM Zelijah Zelijah takes a trip down memory lane on his new song “17,” out now via Sony Music Philippines. Trading verses with fellow hip-hop artist Ellis G on bossa-infused, lo-fi beats and stripped-down guitars, the Filipino rapper/producer strikes a balance between honing a music palette that distills the algorithm-driven sounds of today and approaching the intersection of various music styles with a pop flair. According to Zelijah, “17” was supposed to be a sad little tune about cherishing the best years of our lives in a bubble, tucked away from the ...

Dirty John This true story in Dirty John is truly insane and beautifully unfolds in this podcast. Debra Newell, an interior designer in Southern California, meets a handsome doctor, John Meehan, on an over-50s dating site. Debra falls fast and hard: John is a divorced, Christian anaesthesiologist who professes his love for her early on. They quickly make plans to marry and Debra believes him to be the perfect husband. But, her children aren’t so keen on John and worry that his story doesn’t add up. Why does an anaesthesiologist have no money? When he leaves his house in the morning in...

Hong Kong’s public universities record the highest number of dropouts since 2004 More than 2,100 students at the city’s eight publicly funded universities quit in the 2019-20 academic year, up 15 per cent from 2018-19 Most universities cited personal and family issues as the main reasons behind the withdrawals, but student leaders said politics also played a part

Let’s see, the pandemic made us shut-ins. The fires (here in California) showed us what the apocalypse was going to look like with the red/orange clouds. Then, what the post life was going to be with grey clouds of smoke, fog, crud. Counter culturist Timothy Leary was right, “Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out.” People in every country, state/province, city/town had to give up the normal stuff they do – eat out, catch a ballgame, go to a movie. Suddenly, they were rediscovering every nook, cranny of their home.   So, with typical enabler encouragement … everyone’s doing it, a friend of...