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  In 1961, the Francophile Mohammad Reza visited Paris to meet his favourite leader, General Charles de Gaulle of France. Mohammad Reza saw height as the measure of a man and a woman (the Shah had a marked preference for tall women) and the 6’5″ de Gaulle was his most admired leader. Mohammad Reza loved to be compared to his ...

The most alluring things in life are often those that are off-limits. And as travellers, this means that we’re fascinated by places that we’re not allowed to visit.

Murphy’s law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong”.

Halimah Yacob (born 23 August 1954) is a Singaporean politician serving as President of Singapore since 2017. Previously a member of the governing People’s Action Party (PAP), she was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Jurong GRC (Bukit Batok East) from 2001 to 2015 and for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC (Marsiling) from 2015 to 2017.

Larry Tesler, a pioneer of personal computing credited with creating the cut, copy and paste as well as the search and replace functions, has died. He was 74.