Turkish Schoolchildren Forbidden to Draw Rainbows – “it turns children into gays”

“Red Dress in Black & White,” by Elliot Ackerman (Alfred A. Knopf)

Federico Macheda

A bride and groom-to-be have been left disappointed after their wedding was cancelled - and even more so since they’d had the date permanently tattooed on their arms.

In 1980, one of the TV shows that the biggest impact on my class at school was called The Golden Turkey Awards. It was a spoof ceremony to honour the world’s worst films, many of them dating from the 50s and 60s, mostly low-budget sci-fi or inept creature-features. Such was its impact that Channel 4 followed up with a series on The World’s Worst Movies. Clive James devoted a show to bad films. A mini-industry sprang up around risible celluloid disasters.

Turkish soccer player Cevher Toktas recently made a shocking confession. According to multiple reports, the 32-year-old athlete confessed to killing his 5-year-old son Kasim.

The actor whose performance as a fictional Turkish president on Netflix's Designated Survivor has led to a real-life political row has weighed in on the controversy. Netflix last week removed season 2 episode 7 of the political thriller series from its Turkish service after the government in Ankara claimed the show, in which Troy Caylak plays a villainous, fictional Turkish leader called Fatih Turan, violated its censorship laws.

Drew Barrymore is being sued for copyright infringement by a company who claims she stole its designs and pawned them off as her own for her decor brand.

Countries across Europe are slowly starting to loosen their lockdown restrictions, as the globe tries to take baby steps into a return to normality.

Drew Barrymore has been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit by a fabric designer over a cushion pattern.