Getty Images Lin has been at the heart of a gender eligibility row that has dominated the Games When the referee raised Lin Yu-ting’s hand at the Paris 2024’s women’s 57kg final, history was made. She had won Taiwan its first ever Olympic gold medal in boxing. Calling Lin a “daughter of Taiwan,” Taiwan’s President … Read more
Deir Al-Balah: The Israeli military ordered more evacuations in southern Gaza early Sunday, a day after a deadly airstrike on a school-turned-shelter in the north killed at least 80 Palestinians, according to local health authorities. The airstrike was one of the deadliest attacks in the 10-month war. Hamas appeared to push back against resuming negotiations … Read more
Clockwise: Siddhant Kamath, Director, Natural Ice Cream; Namit Malhotra, Producer and CEO of British visual effects company DNEG; An aerial view shows the site of a landslide on July 31, 2024, in Chooralmala village, India 1) Making of the undisputed heroThere was a time, not so long ago, when ice cream for Indian households was … Read more
BBC Abdel Nasser Sarhan is memorialised in a poster When a white van drew up next to the office of the Palestine Customs Police in Tubas, a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, Abdel Nasser Sarhan had no reason to be suspicious. According to Abdel Nasser’s colleagues, the van’s driver got out and greeted him … Read more