In the sixth episode of Game of Our Lives, host David Goldblatt speaks with writer Supriya Nair about the little-known history of football in India, and the influence of celebrities in building up fan bases around the game.
"The Indian Super League is so young that to look at it would make you believe that football was born in India three years ago," says Supriya Nair, a Mumbai-based writer, editor, AC Milan fan, and this week's Game of Our Lives guest.
When 15-year-old Amber Yang first heard about space trash it gave her nightmares. How could such an imminent threat to space exploration be left on the back burner?
After seeing videos with astronaut Scott Kelly, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Within a few years she consumed all the media she could on space debris, taught herself to code, and learned the ins and outs of astrophysics.
By 18 she had developed an AI-based space debris tracking program that she claims is one of the most accurate in the world.
Journalist John Pilger on how the world's greatest military power, the US, may well be on the road to war with China.
A major United States military build-up is under way in Asia and the Pacific with the purpose of confronting China, according to award-winning journalist John Pilger. Nuclear war is no longer unthinkable.
In his film, The Coming War on China, Pilger warns that the world's greatest military power, the US, and the world's second economic power, China, may well be on the road to war.
China has been building airstrips in the South China Sea in the disputed Spratly Islands archipelago, creating a flashpoint for war with the US.
China and North Korea boast an alliance forged in blood -- more than 130,000 Chinese troops, including the son of Mao Zedong, died defending the North during the Korean War -- but the relationship has always been an uneasy one.
While Pyongyang is dependent on Beijing for trade and diplomatic support, experts say the North Korean regime has always resented playing the little brother role to the much bigger China.
Now, as North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un establishes himself on the world stage and prepares for summits with South Korean President Moon Jae-in and US President Donald Trump, Beijing fears Pyongyang is moving out of its orbit and striking out on its own.
'Mountains and mountains of plastic': life on Cambodia's polluted coast
Photographs from Sihanouk in the country’s south west reveal locals living amid a staggering tide of plastic pollution
Looking down into the water that lies beneath the ramshackle houses of Sihanouk, Cambodia, it is hard to imagine that the sea is there at all. Instead, there is dense layer upon layer of plastic waste clogging the water, piling up around poles that support the wooden homes, carpeting the beach.
Sihanouk, Cambodia
New images of from Sihanouk, in the country’s south west, depict in horrifying detail the extent of Cambodia’s growing problem of plastic pollution and how the tide of unbiodegradable rubbish has become part of the fabric of the lives of communities living in poverty.
Photographer Niamh Peren said she had been “gobsmacked” at the levels of plastic pollution that littered the waters and wharfs of Sihanouk, but emphasised that these mountains of waste also told another story: one is often neglected in the current global discussion around plastic, where poorer countries are often accused of being the biggest culprits in terms of generating plastic waste.
Israel abandons plan to forcibly deport illegal African immigrants
'At this stage, the possibility of carrying out an unwilling deportation to a third country is not on the agenda'
Israel has abandoned its plans to forcibly deport African migrants who entered the country illegally, after failing to find a willing country to take them in.
Benjamin Netanyahu's government had been working on an arrangement to expel thousands of mostly Eritrean and Sudanese men who had crossed into Israel through Egypt’s Sinai desert.
Israel has now said that the migrants will be able to renew residency permits every 60 days, as they were before the deportation push.
World Press Freedom Index 2018: Europe turning into crisis region for journalists
The rise of populist politics in Europe has weakened press freedom in a region where it was once most secure, according to Reporters Without Borders. China, Russia and Donald Trump also pose a triple threat.
Iran’s president poured scorn on Wednesday on U.S. and European discussions over Tehran’s nuclear agreement, and dismissed Donald Trump as a “tradesman” who lacked the qualifications to deal with a complex international pact.
“They say that with the certain leader of a European country we want to make a decision about a seven-sided agreement,” Rouhani said in a speech broadcast live on state TV.
War of words over ex-Finance Ministry bureaucrat's sexual harassment accusations heats up
(Mainichi Japan)
Top Finance Ministry bureaucrat Junichi Fukuda's resignation over sexual harassment accusations was accepted on April 24, though he continues to categorically deny any wrongdoing. In other words, he flatly rejects the claims of TV Asahi, which revealed recently that it was one of its female reporters who was the victim of the alleged harassment. The Finance Ministry is in the midst of an internal probe to uncover what actually happened, but a conclusive end to the issue looks far off.
Meanwhile, members of the government and ruling parties have poured oil on the fire with narrow-minded public statements, deepening the turmoil, and critics have called for Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso's resignation.
Sweet-tooths from a wide variety of countries offered up their creative suggestions, and while smart-alec proposals for Breast Milk and Big Black Penis were struck off the list, the remaining ideas were whittled down, making way for 21 finalists, which have been revealed below:
Ichigo Tiramisu (Strawberry Tiramisu)
Uji Kintoki (Shaved ice with Uji matcha syrup and sweet adzuki red beans)
Ume Jamu (Plum Jam)
Orange Liqueur
Kuri Yokan (Chestnut Yokan [Yokan is a traditional jellied dessert])
Cream Anmitsu (Anmitsu is a Japanese dessert that usually contains small cubes of agar jelly, red bean paste, soft mochi sticky rice pieces, and fruit)
Shio Vanilla (Salted Vanilla)
Pearl and Lychee (the “pearl” in this case refers to bubble tea)
Nama Shoga (Fresh Ginger)
Chai
Cheesecake
Passionfruit
Fruits Cocktail
Hojicha (roasted green tea)
Hokey Pokey Ice Cream (A New Zealand favourite made from plain vanilla ice cream with small lumps of crunchy honeycomb toffee pieces)
