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| Reading Ovid in the Age of #MeToo In 2015, four Columbia University undergraduates published an op-ed in their student paper petitioning English professors to affix trigger warnings to Ovid's Metamorphoses. The poem's "vivid depictions of rape and sexual assault," they wrote, were distressing to survivors, one of whom "was essentially ...
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| Philippines: Rodrigo Duterte orders soldiers to shoot female rebels 'in the vagina' Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gestures as he speaks during a press conference in Davao City. Photograph: -/AFP/Getty Images. President Rodrigo Duterte has been branded a misogynist and "macho-facist" after he ordered soldiers to shoot female communist rebels in the vagina. In a speech to ...
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| Weatherwatch: Extreme flooding on rise in Europe over past 20 years Aftermath of flooding inside the Glenridding Hotel caused by Storm Desmond in December 2015. Photograph: McCaren/LNP/REX/Shutterstock. For the inhabitants of the Cumbrian village of Glenridding, the winter of 2015/16 was a miserable one. Storm Desmond brought the first deluge in December, ...
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| Graffiti artists awarded $6.7m in lawsuit after renowned work torn down Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images. A New York judge has awarded $6.7m to graffiti artists who sued after their work was destroyed on buildings torn down to make room for luxury apartments. The federal judge Frederic Block in Brooklyn noted Monday there was no remorse from the ...
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