Destruction carried out by the Islamists in Timbuktu would have been much greater had people of the city not rallied around to save their history
Semenya herself has spoken little about the controversy, concluding that 'God made me the way I am and I accept myself.' It is unclear whether she has even seen the results of every test to which she has been subjected. She deserves our compassion for the way she's been treated
Elite sportspeople are not a smokescreen to hide behind while selling off playing fields and slashing community facilities – the truth is that the Olympics doesn't inspire sporting talent, but it does show that only proper investment gets results
Mr Smith's appeal is based on him being a better salesman for leftist ideas than the present incumbent; but that is of little value if the policies themselves, and the party's general image, are unpalatable
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I thought of a joke here about Jady Duarte's Bolt-In-My-Bed pictures spreading quicker than her ankles, but this would lead to me spending at least 72 hours fielding abuse from whining 19-year-old offendatrons claiming 'slut-shaming'
A cabal of lifestyle bloggers with spurious claims about nutrition are spreading the gospel kale is cool and that expensive, obscure ingredients are must-haves for good digestion. 'It's photosynthesis. Eating plants gives you energy direct from the sun,' one of them recently told The Times
Losing weight can seem very tough. Sometimes you feel like you're doing everything right, yet still not getting results.
The Makropulos Affair is the last of Janáček's trilogy of operas exploring different aspects of womanhood
Spectralism was the label give to French composers who reacted to Serialism with natural acoustic sound, and Gerard Grisey was their leader. It has taken 40 years for his key work Dérives to get its British premiere
'Lifelong monogamy does not characterise the primary mating patterns of humans,' says Dr David Buss from the University of Texas
Andy Warhol might have imagined a world where everyone got their 15 minutes of fame, but in the age of Snapchat it's more relevant to say everyone gets their 10 seconds
The success of London 2012 is a long forgotten memory; a glimpse of equality now replaced by more familiar themes of access difficulties and discrimination
The treatment of Semenya threatens the inclusion of queer, trans and intersex people in the Olympics – a sporting competition already defined along sloppy gender lines
There is a misconception that Irish society is against abortion, but two of the most recent nationwide polls show that 87 per cent of people are in favour of a change to Ireland's restrictive law
