I am very afraid', says Qatari transgender woman
Controversy about Qatar hosting football's World Cup has mostly focused on LGBT rights in the country and around same-sex relationships being criminalised. Transgender Qataris can be detained for "violating public morality", which requires no trial or official charge. BBC News has spoken to two trans Qataris about their lives. "I am very afraid, but I just want people to know that we do exist," Shahd says about her decision to speak out about life as a transgender woman. Like the other p...
I am very afraid', says Qatari transgender woman
Controversy about Qatar hosting football's World Cup has mostly focused on LGBT rights in the country and around same-sex relationships being criminalised. Transgender Qataris can be detained for "violating public morality", which requires no trial or official charge. BBC News has spoken to two trans Qataris about their lives. "I am very afraid, but I just want people to know that we do exist," Shahd says about her decision to speak out about life as a transgender woman. Like the other p...
Giant panda gifted to Taiwan by China dies
A giant panda gifted by China to Taiwan in 2008 has died after a period of ill-health, Taipei Zoo has said. Tuan Tuan and his breeding partner Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan when relations with China were more cordial. But relations have soured since then, with Beijing - which has long regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province - becoming more belligerent. The zoo first noticed Tuan Tuan was ill in August when he began suffering seizures. Vets from China were called to examine him, and scans sho...
Giant panda gifted to Taiwan by China dies
A giant panda gifted by China to Taiwan in 2008 has died after a period of ill-health, Taipei Zoo has said. Tuan Tuan and his breeding partner Yuan Yuan were given to Taiwan when relations with China were more cordial. But relations have soured since then, with Beijing - which has long regarded Taiwan as a breakaway province - becoming more belligerent. The zoo first noticed Tuan Tuan was ill in August when he began suffering seizures. Vets from China were called to examine him, and scans sho...
Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces?
hen sculptor Naum Gabo made a pioneering series of sculptures in plastic back in the 1930s, he was following the fine artistic principle of experimenting with a then-new material offering an intriguing combination of transparency and flexibility. What Gabo couldn't know was that his chosen material would warp and crumble over the ensuing decades. Today, sculptures like Construction in Space: Two Cones (1937) lie in fragments, consigned to store-rooms at galleries such as London's Ta...
Inherent vice: What to do with decaying masterpieces?
hen sculptor Naum Gabo made a pioneering series of sculptures in plastic back in the 1930s, he was following the fine artistic principle of experimenting with a then-new material offering an intriguing combination of transparency and flexibility. What Gabo couldn't know was that his chosen material would warp and crumble over the ensuing decades. Today, sculptures like Construction in Space: Two Cones (1937) lie in fragments, consigned to store-rooms at galleries such as London's Ta...
Millennials should be at their sexual prime. Why are so many couples reporting major dry spells?
“The first [several] years of our marriage we had an amazing sex life … and as he got older (he’s 30 now), he just doesn't seem interested in sex anymore.” This is one of many comments floating around the r/DeadBedrooms subreddit on the social-media platform Reddit – a self-described “discussion group for Redditors who are coping with a relationship that is seriously lacking in sexual intimacy”. Frustrated anecdotes like these abound from people who are in low- or zero-sex relationships....
Millennials should be at their sexual prime. Why are so many couples reporting major dry spells?
“The first [several] years of our marriage we had an amazing sex life … and as he got older (he’s 30 now), he just doesn't seem interested in sex anymore.” This is one of many comments floating around the r/DeadBedrooms subreddit on the social-media platform Reddit – a self-described “discussion group for Redditors who are coping with a relationship that is seriously lacking in sexual intimacy”. Frustrated anecdotes like these abound from people who are in low- or zero-sex relationships....
