Maybe the proposal didn’t go exactly as planned, but at least he got the girl! Kit Harington recently stopped by the Jonathan Ross Show when the topic of his recent engagement to his former Game of Thrones co-star, Rose Leslie, came up. In rather crude terms, Harington, 30, reportedly revealed that he got a little…
Read moreAll the Celebrity Babies That Could Be Saying “Gorgeous” on Taylor Swift’s Song
Taylor Swift could sing about something as dull as writing “Thank You” notes and all of us, Swifties or not, would make sure to tune in. That happened Thursday at midnight when she dropped a sweet, ’80s-like synthy track called “Gorgeous” that was not quite as dramatic and packed full of hidden messages as “Look What…
Read moreBlake Lively Is Upset Ryan Reynolds Gets to Play “Assholes” But She Doesn’t
Blake Lively has no illusions about what it means to be a woman in Hollywood—right down to the types of roles she can play. In a recent interview for Vanity Fair’s podcast, “The Limelight,” the All I See Is You star got candid about the inherent sexism in the film industry. Specifically, the 30-year-old pointed out…
Read moreEurope failed immigrants after the Berlin Wall fell, now it risks doing the same
Click:active components in electronics The decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall have presented new opportunities and challenges for the free movement of people. On the one hand, the fall reunited families and opened up exchange and study programmes for young people. But it also gave rise to informal, irregular and exploitative labour migration….
Read moreForced internal migration grows in Venezuela
“I came from Trujilo because I needed to get a job, but also because life there is getting very difficult. Even though people work, they don’t have gas, electricity or petrol. Cooking has become a herculean task. First you have to buy whatever you can, whatever reaches us and then we have to look for…
Read moreHow Ingush women are fighting for the return of their children
Click:hanfu dress male female Earlier this year, Russia’s social networks were stunned by the story of Aisha Azhigova. The seven-year-old girl was brought to a hospital in Nazran, in Ingushetia, in a terrible state. Aisha was diagnosed with fractures of both arms and several vertebrae, as well as bruises, burns and even human bites on…
Read moreThe uncertain fate of business and human rights
When the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were unanimously endorsed by the UN Human Rights Council in June 2011, they gave birth to a new field of endeavour that aims to confront, diminish, and eliminate business-related conduct that violates or otherwise harms human rights. Eight years on, the Intergovernmental Working Group…
Read moreLebanon: a revolution redefining a country
It has been over three weeks since protests erupted in Lebanon on the night of October 17. The revolutionary wave continues to grow to include wider sectors of society. Protesters keep surprising themselves and everybody else as they lead a popular uprising that has swept across the country, breaking taboos, stereotypes, and the centrality of…
Read moreThis Photo Editing App Saves You Time So You Can Actually Eat Your Instagram-Worthy Meal
Do you hate spending more time getting your photos Instagram-worthy than actually enjoying what you’re doing in the snapshots? Or do you get tired of taking snaps of your piping hot brunch food, only to bite into gross cold eggs 20 minutes later because you couldn’t get the lighting just right? Same. Enter: SelfMade. It’s…
Read moreRead J.K. Rowling’s Original Harry Potter Pitch to Publishers
The tale of J.K. Rowling’s attempts to find a publisher for the Harry Potter books is an oft-told and inspiring story of eventual triumph over rejection for anyone feeling disheartened or hopeless. Rowling was turned down by 12 different publishing houses before British independent publisher Bloomsbury took a chance on her and the boy who lived. Now…
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