The best TV Redefining Juliet; Paul Merton's Secret Stations Undercover

Shakespeare’s famous tragedy of star-crossed lovers is traditionally played by what we might call conventional, leads. But how do our perceptions of the play change if Juliet is small, unusually tall, has cerebral palsy and uses a fine documentary follows rehearsals for creative director’s theatrical production celebrating diversity, where six different women play Juliet and also discuss their life experiences. 

Sally Faulkner back in Australia without kids

The mother at the centre of the 60 Minutes child-snatch drama is set to reunite with her partner Brendan Pierce and their young child when she returns to her Brisbane home today.Ms Faulkner arrived in Sydney last night from Beirut and was expected to catch a connecting flight to Brisbane this morning.Ms Faulkner  who had full custody of the children relinquished custodial rights under Australian law to her estranged husband Ali Elamine, so he would drop abduction charges against her that carried a maximum 20 year sentence.

Jerusalem Dig Uncovers Ancient Greek Citadel

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the remnants of an impressive fort built more than two thousand years ago by Greeks in the center of old Jerusalem. The ruins are the first solid evidence of an era in which Hellenistic culture held sway in this ancient city.The citadel, until now known only from texts, was at the heart of a bloody rebellion that eventually led to the expulsion of the Greeks, an event still celebrated by Jews at Hanukkah. But the excavation in the shadow of the Temple Mount, called Haram esh-Sharif by Muslims, is stirring controversy in this politically charged land.

Mother and son couple go into hiding as they could face 15 years in jail

She now saysever since they met 30 years later in 2014, she told the New Day who broke the story exclusively.A BRITISH mum and her son who confessed to having mind-blowing” sex with each other have gone into hiding as cops say they could face 15 years in prison.Loving mum Kim West became pregnant with Ben Ford while studying in California but decided to put him up for adoption.

Animals Rule Chernobyl 30 Years After Nuclear Disaster

Marina Shkvyria watches for animal tracks as she walks toward an abandoned village in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, the area sealed to the public after a nuclear power plant exploded here 30 years ago, on April 26, 1986. Spotting one, she crouches and runs her finger over the toes of a wolf print in the loose sand.

Oops, Donald Trump Accidentally Says 7-Eleven Instead Of 9/11

At a campaign rally on the eve of the New York primary, Donald Trump read aloud an emotional testimonial on what he considers "New York values" and mistakenly said 7-Eleven instead of 9/11.

28 Dead and 200 Wounded In Suicide Car Bomb Attack In Kabul, Claimed By Taliban

Taliban militants attacked an office of Afghanistan's main security agency with a suicide car bomb and gunfire today, killing several people and wounding over 200, in their first assault on the capital since declaring a spring offensive.President Ashraf Ghani condemned the attack "in the strongest possible terms" in a statement from the presidential palace, only a few hundred metres away from the scene of the blast in central Kabul.

Brazil President Rousseff Says She Won't Quit After Impeachment Vote

  President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she is indignant over a congressional vote to open impeachment proceedings against her and vowed to fight what she called the injustice. She again categorically ruled out resigning.In her first public appearance since the Chamber of Deputies voted 367-137 late Sunday to send the impeachment proceedings to the Senate for a possible trial, Brazil's first female president appeared shaken but delivered a message of defiance.

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Ecuador's central coast Saturday

A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rattled Ecuador's central coast Saturday night, killing at least 233 people and injuring nearly 1,500. Buildings collapsed, and power was knocked out for millions. The death toll is expected to rise as rescue workers comb through the damage.

Before they are numbers, these people are human beings’: pope’s poignant visit to refugees in Lesbos

only lasted for five hours, started on the runway at the airport on the island, he moved to a similar concentration camp, he stopped at the port and back on the track ended. But when a lightning tour of Francisco de Lesbos was finished Saturday, almost nothing was as it was before.From the first moment stop the leader of the Catholic Church in the first line of the refugee crisis in Europe, it was heavy in symbolism, full of emotions, extraordinary in small or large scale. However, nothing was more acute than the form of its end, as Francis, with one gesture, sent a strong rebuke of Europe's political elite, dividing his plane back to Rome with 12 refugees, who, until then, was not held as prisoners on the island. Even the cleanest and appeared tearful as his plane took off.

War on drugs: UN challenged by Colombian president

The president of Colombia will present a plan for the complete and radical overhaul of global policy towards drug trafficking and organised crime at a special session of the general assembly.The most sensational element in Santos’s presentation is the announcement that his government will – as a result of a four-year peace process soon to bear fruit as a peace treaty – be implementing its own domestic struggle against narco-traffic alongside its bitter enemies, The group admits to having funded its war by what it calls “taxation” of narco-profits.Santos says: “Colombia is close to reaching an agreement to end the 60-year armed conflict with the Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias an agreement which is of special relevance to this discourse on the ‘war on drugs’.

Saudi Arabia threatens to sell American assets should US Congress pass 9/11 bill

HE Saudi Arabian government has threatened to sell off hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of American assets should the US Congress pass a bill that could hold the kingdom responsible for any role in the September 11, 2001 attacks, the New York Times reports.The newspaper reported that Saudi foreign minister Adel al-Jubeir told US politicians last month that “Saudi Arabia would be forced to sell up to $US750 billion ($A975 billion) in Treasury securities and other assets in the United States before they could be in danger of being frozen by American courts.

Monica Lewinsky: ‘The shame sticks to you like tar

MONICA Lewinsky has described the public humiliation she suffered after her affair with President Bill Clinton was exposed as “excruciating”, and said it brought her “very close” to attempting suicide.Now she’s a respected and perceptive anti-bullying advocate. She gives talks at Facebook, and at business conferences, on how to make the internet more compassionate, She helps out at anti-bullying organisations like Bystander Revolution, a site that offers video advice on what to do if you’re afraid to go to school, or if you’re a victim of cyber-bullying.

Facebook employees want to ‘prevent Trump

FACEBOOK insisted Friday that it is not “unfriending” Donald Trump by working against the billionaire’s presidential bid.Facebook workers used an internal company poll to ask CEO Mark Zuckerberg whether the social-me­dia giant should try “to help prevent President Trump in 2017,

Royal tour too focused on Kate's fashion

Following Prince William and Catherine's tour of India and Bhutan felt like "turning the pages of a picture book", a royal expert says.Ingrid Seward, the editor of Majesty magazine, said she felt the visit had lacked substance but understood why it had to be so tightly controlled.The royal couple have spent the last seven days taking in the sights as they travelled around India and Bhutan, including the Taj Mahal and Kaziranga National Park.it was the 'what Kate wore tour', and I think that's unavoidable really because she gives such a wonderful display,

At least 41 people have  been killed by the powerful earthquake that struck western Ecuador on Saturday and the toll will likely rise further, the country's Vice President Jorge Glas said.

Sadly the information we currently have is that 41 citizens have lost their lives in this emergency... This death toll will unfortunately rise in the coming hours," Glas said in televised comments,There is considerable (structural) damage in the area near the epicenter as well as points as far away as Guayaquil,

Woman Left Infant In Hot Car For Strip Club Audition: Police

A woman and her friend are facing charges after they left her infant in a hot car outside a strip club where she was auditioning.reports 24-year-old Kelsey McMurtry was auditioning at club in downtown Nashville Thursday while her daughter sat in a locked car with the windows up. A passerby saw her and called police.

US Air Force Plane Intercepted By Russian Jet In 'Unsafe' Manner

 US Air Force reconnaissance plane was intercepted by a Russian SU-27 jet in an "unsafe and unprofessional" manner while in international airspace over the Baltic Sea, the Pentagon said on Saturday.The US aircraft was operating in international airspace and at no time crossed into Russian territory," Laura Seal, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said of Thursday's incident.

Japan hit by 7.3-magnitude earthquake

A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.3 has struck southern Japan barely 24 hours after a smaller,Police on Saturday were reported as saying that at least six people had been killed. Authorities said hundreds of calls had come in from residents reporting people trapped inside houses and buildings on the island of Kyushu.

In This Town, a Staggering Number of People Attempt Suicide

When a similar series of suicide attempts happened in 2012, French Canadian photographer noticed something missing from the media coverage.There was nothing that made me understand who these people were, nothing that made me understand what was life in this community,” he says. “The media was just focused on news. So I wanted to go to figure out what is it like to live in that kind of place—which is located so near to Toronto, Quebec, Montreal, but we know nothing about them.