A decade has passed since South Africans of all races took part in the election that ended apartheid. On April 14, the nation’s 20.7 million voters will again go to the polls where, barring some stupendous upset, they will re-elect the ruling African National Congress (ANC), now led by President Thabo Mbeki. The only suspense will likely be whether the ANC will win control of all nine provincial legislatures–and which political party will come in second....

The 36-year-old has been out of action since rupturing his anterior cruciate ligament in the Europa League quarter-final victory over Anderlecht in April, but Jose Mourinho has hinted he could return before the end of 2017. Man U 7/5 to score O2.5 goals v Newcastle Ibrahimovic led the line for Mourinho’s side last year, supported by a rotating cast of attacking midfielders. Romelu Lukaku took the Swede’s position and number nine shirt following his arrival from Everton, but Ibrahimovic has said that his switch to number 10 is a natural fit for him and could well herald a change in the way he fits into the side....

Normally, I am in my research tower observing elephants from afar, at my field site in the northeast corner of Etosha National Park, Namibia. Or, if up close, I’m sitting on top of my research bunker twenty meters from the waterhole. My feet would be poised on the subterranean ladder rungs—thighs taut, ready to scramble down to safety if need be, while taking ID photos of individual elephants. But here I was, perched on a heavy metal bar mounted in the place of the passenger door of a Toyota Landcruiser, like John Wayne rustling up wildlife in the film, Hatari....

Usually, I wouldn’t take headaches very seriously, but obviously, in pregnancy, you have to be wary of such things. At the time, I was aware that these headaches could have been dangerous for me, I couldn’t brush them off as “just a migraine.” So, I spoke with my sister, who was a midwife, and she advised me to visit the doctor immediately. That same day, an ambulance picked me up and drove me to a hospital in Hertfordshire, England....

Latty says her interest in the project stems from her late father, Albert, a Navy steward in World War II. He filled her childhood in New York City’s Harlem with tales of war. They weren’t all easy to hear. “He would tell me about the racism and discrimination,” says Latty. “But every story always ended with him saying how proud he was to serve his country.” That sentiment is echoed in the thoughts of older vets, who often fought for a country that wasn’t fighting for them....

Many diplomats and aid workers in Iraq are convinced that Baghdad deliberately staged the June 28 attack. They note several suspicious circumstances. Haidar was pinned down on the ground floor during his battle with police, for instance, yet the Iraqi government claims he killed two hostages who weren’t near him. “The victims were upstairs,” said one witness. “It’s not clear how they were killed by Haidar downstairs.” Two people present in the building told NEWSWEEK they suspect the victims–a Somali and an Iraqi–were actually killed by Baghdad’s security services....

Frisbee developed multiple chronic conditions. She almost died two years ago of pancreatitis, and I became one of those owners who cooks their dog’s food. We had a special diet for her, she was on various medicines and she pulled through. But she also had cataracts, hearing loss, lipomas on her skin, incontinence and cognitive dysfunction. Her osteoarthritis made it impossible for her to walk. There was a day where my stepson and I took her on her walk, across the street from where we live in Seattle, Washington....

At that relatively young age, all I knew for sure was that I wanted to write. While my upbringing wasn’t exactly boring, I felt I lacked the worldliness any good novelist needed. Like so many aspiring writers, I wanted to travel. Rather than backpacking through Europe or joining the Peace Corps, though, I formulated a more ambitious idea: I would live in 10 different cities for one year each....

My birthday is December 15 and I’ve just turned nine years old, so I don’t really remember the designs on my dad’s bowtie because I was only five at the time. But we did some research into how to start a bow tie business and my mom already knew some business tricks because she has a business too. She helped me add things to my business, like a website and in 2017 we started T&N Bow Ties and Apparel— named after me and my younger brother Noah....

Marie told me that she was giving a lecture two weeks from then, and invited me to attend. And so, in 2011, when I was 62 years old, I attended Western Washington University for the first time since I received a teaching certificate in 1972. When I arrived at the college, I was met with an empty room. I went to the office and asked, “Isn’t Marie supposed to be giving a lecture now?...

As I grew older, my father started sharing some of his patients’ stories with me and I began to realize that I also wanted to work in medicine, but that I wanted to focus my career on working with teenagers. However, as a Black girl growing up wanting to be a doctor, I became aware that I was the personification of my parents’ and communities’ dreams. At church or community events, I’d often hear, “your parents must be so proud....

My son Demetrious—we call him Demi—was born in 2018. Everything was going great; he was meeting all his milestones, some of them really early. But between one year and 18 months old, we started noticing small skills, like blowing kisses and saying “bye,” were starting to regress. So then came early childhood intervention, recommended therapies and doctors telling us we should get his hearing and eyes checked, and anything else that could be the cause of his regression....

I discovered a lump in my right breast during a routine self-exam. Initially I thought it was something benign like a cyst, since I had no family history of breast cancer. But when it hadn’t gone away after a couple weeks, I had a biopsy of the mass. I was speechless when the pathologist called and told me that it was invasive cancer. Like so many other women, I hadn’t been expecting this news at all....

But when I gave birth to my daughter in 2013, I worked three days a week. This changed after having my son in 2015, as I transitioned into working four days a week. It was always a juggle balancing my career and spending quality time at home with my children. The parenting shift from nursery to school Some people think that when children are younger, parents are typically able to achieve a better balance in taking care of them, but it gets harder as the children get older....

Here I am, on Saksahanskoho Street, an area peculiar in the cultural landscape of Kyiv. The restaurants are more eastern, the hipsters are more grungy, and the snow seems browner. Most importantly though, Saksahanskoho is where I first played music with my friend Nate—in a dimly lit basement rehearsal studio called Checkpoint. I’m an American singer, songwriter, and guitarist. Nate, also an American, is a wicked good drummer. Our first jam went well, and soon after we added our bassist David, a third member from the U....

Being a teenage girl growing up in the ’80s, I didn’t fit in with the “cool” crowd who dressed in designer brands. But my first job was in retail, shortly followed by visual merchandising, so I’ve always known how important image and how you perceive yourself is. My own body image is something I work on daily. In my role as a brand consultant I work with mostly female-owned small companies and entrepreneurs, I see how much body image can impact individuals....

“I’m not going to lie, I’m shaking over here,” said DJ, a member of the friend group that posts under the TikTok account benztraphouse, before his own experience. One by one, the friend group had a chance to experience what menstrual cramps felt like from the machine. While most of the women in the group seemed unaffected, one even said that the pain delivered by the machine wasn’t as bad as what she experiences monthly, it wasn’t as easy for their male counterparts....

We’re on lockdown, so my husband, my son and I don’t really leave home at the moment—except just once a week to get groceries. Back in 2008, a few years after I moved to New York, I was at a party and met an air guitarist called Taryn “Bettie B. Good” Kapronika. I’ve always sung karaoke, and I love being on stage, and she said to me, “If you love being on stage, and you love metal, you need to do air guitar!...

Hernandez’s goal Saturday in Rostov-on-Don helped El Tri past South Korea and also put him level with Luis “El Matador’ Hernandez with four goals scored at the world’s most important tournament. While criticism still arrives from some corners of the Mexican fan base, something Chicharito said will continue to happen to him and his teammates no matter what they do, the majority of fans are fully upon the bandwagon. That all would change if Mexico fails to pick up a point in Wednesday’s final group match and misses out on the round of 16 for the first time since the 1978 tournament in Argentina....