With inflation in Turkey galloping, the sheep Gul Er buys every year for the Muslim festival of sacrifice in Istanbul looks agonisingly out of reach.. Annual inflation in Turkey has officially reached 78.6 percent, although economists and many ordinary Turks doubt government data.
"I had to spread my legs, and when it was put in it hurt terribly," said Britta Mortensen, who was 15 she when was forced to have a coil, or intrauterine device (IUD), fitted.. The headmistress said: "'Yes, you will get an IUD, even if you say no,'" Mortensen added, the hurt still clear.
For 30 years, Indonesian artist Agus Suwage has created hyper-stylised selfies -- from caricatures of himself to imposing his face on a dictator -- to document his search for identity in the turmoil of the country's recent history.. Suwage's self-portraits document his life as an artist deeply influenced by political change in Indonesia, such as the fall of dictator Suharto's regime in 1998 and the hopes raised by the democratic revival that followed.
The hajj pilgrimage can be physically draining even in ideal conditions, but worshippers this year face an added challenge: scorching sun and temperatures rising to 42 degrees Celsius (108 degrees Fahrenheit).. "The average regional temperature increase due to climate change is considerably higher than the global one and projections are clearly showing that outdoor activities in summer, such as the hajj pilgrimage, will become impossible".
Huge crowds of Muslim pilgrims started praying on Saudi Arabia's Mount Arafat early Friday, the high point of the biggest hajj pilgrimage since the pandemic forced drastic cuts in numbers for two years in a row.. In the early hours of Friday, they converged on Mount Arafat, where the Prophet Mohammed is believed to have delivered his final sermon, for the most important of the hajj rituals.
When Alabama nurse Melissa went to pick up her regular prescription for rheumatoid arthritis last week, she was told the drug was "on hold" while the pharmacist checked she wasn't going to use it to induce an abortion.. Melissa, the nurse, said she was incensed at the double standard that allowed one of her best friends, who is a man, to get his methotrexate prescription filled right away with no questions asked.
Long relegated to an obscure corner of the collectibles market, VHS tapes have been fetching eye-popping prices at auctions in recent months, thanks to nostalgia and an appetite for new investment opportunities.. - Nostalgia meets investment opportunity - Many long-time collectors are wondering about the sudden surge, 16 years after the last release of a film in this format ("A History of Violence").
With great care, Yesenia Talavera transfers a tiny frog from a plant, where it was sleeping, to a plastic container with breathing holes, a moist sponge, and some room to jump.. They are deposited in containers with breathing holes -- the boas into cloth sacks -- before being packed in wooden crates marked "Live Animals" as an environment ministry inspector looks on.
Mississippi on Thursday became the latest US state to outlaw abortion after last month's Supreme Court ruling revoking protection for the procedure, leading to 11th-hour confrontations outside a clinic in Jackson.. In recent years, Jackson Women's Health was the only place to offer abortion care in religiously conservative Mississippi.
A top aide and ex-boyfriend of fallen Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on Thursday of defrauding investors and patients at the failed blood testing startup.. Balwani was tried separately from one-time US biotech star Holmes, whose trial in the same courtroom ended in January with a guilty verdict for four counts of tricking investors into pouring money into what she claimed was a revolutionary blood testing system.
