For people stressed or intimidated by fitness culture — Illustrations by Kaki Okumura In the United States, I’m often bombarded with images and ads of fitness culture. Athleisure is the craze, and it seems that the majority of people are members of gyms like Anytime Fitness, 24 Hour Fitness, or LA Fitness. Any decent hotel or typical college campus…

Learn about habit formation, life planning, building resilience, productivity and leading a healthy lifestyle — When was the last time you read a book that left you feeling truly inspired? A book that prompted you to change something about your life. Whether that be your behaviour or how you view the world and your place in it. I love to get book recommendations from like-minded…

A conflict between the government of Ethiopia and forces in its northern Tigray region has thrown the country into turmoil. Fighting has been going on for almost two weeks, destabilising the populous country in East Africa, with reports of hundreds dead. A power struggle, an election and a push for…

Senior Republicans have voiced their alarm at US plans to withdraw some of its forces in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US is to cut its number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq by 2,500, the US Department of Defense confirmed. President Donald Trump has long called for troops to come…

Australian pop star Tones And I has the most-Shazamed song of all time, with her 2019 breakout hit Dance Monkey. More than 200 million people a month use the Shazam app to identify songs they have heard but don’t know the names of. Dance Monkey, which was written about the…

What is Java? Java is a cross-platform object-oriented programming language that was released by Sun Microsystems in the year 1995. Today, Java is needed to run various applications such as games, social media applications, audio and video applications, etc. Before I go ahead with this, let me brief you about…

The Crown has taken on royal births and deaths, national crises and personal scandals, and seen prime ministers come and go. But now, as the big-budget drama enters the glamour of the 1980s, the era of Diana and Margaret Thatcher — two of the most talked about public figures of…

As the stars of the critically acclaimed TV series reunite to urge Americans to vote, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong looks back at the legacy of the show’s earnest optimism I In a scene from The West Wing, White House press secretary CJ Cregg and deputy chief of staff Josh Lyman are arguing about…

He could run again It may not be the end of Mr Trump’s political ambitions — he could always pull a Grover Cleveland and run for a second term. Cleveland is the only president to leave the White House and return four years later, taking on the top job in…