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Im bored by my daughter, and she is distant and critical of me

I feel constant frustration and powerlessness regarding my relationship with my daughter, whom I have loved dearly since the day she was born when she was pretty like a doll and looked at me in a very direct and critical way (already). She is still good looking, but not in a flashy way and she

Is Rihanna's crotch-grabbing really so gross? | Rihanna

It's not often that Twitter really causes me to despair, but on Monday, a woman I usually consider an intelligent, open-minded, articulate feminist, did just that with this demand: "Rihanna: please take your hand off your vagina, we can all see you, you utter, utter disgrace to womankind."

Top 10 books about Burma

Closed off for half a century by the generals, there is a shortage of writing about this richly diverse country available in English but there are some gems Burma is such an enigmatic country that the first question for any writer is what to call it. The nation has been known officially as Myanmar

'A silent act of resistance': the hidden tattoo studios of Tehran

Tattoo artists are regularly arrested in Iran and sentenced to fines, lashes or imprisonment yet they are in huge demand among young people Mohammeds tattoo studio is hidden in a back room behind a clothes shop in the poorer, southern part of Tehran. Photos of Al Pacino, Che Guevara and the Eiffel Tower adorn

Alexander Zverev issued with penalty order over abuse of ex-girlfriend | Tennis

The Olympic mens tennis champion, Alexander Zverev, has been issued a penalty order for bodily harm against his ex-girlfriend and fines totalling 450,000 (392,000) by a court in Germany. A spokesperson for the Berlin criminal courts confirmed to the Guardian that the Tiergarten district court issued an order against Zverev on 2 October. Zverev is