Britain faces losing its crown as the home of the world’s heaviest potato, after a gigantic spud called Doug was discovered in New Zealand. Doug weighs a mammoth 17 lbs 6 oz( 8kg), which is almost double the size of the unnamed British potato that has held the Guinness world record for the past decade. The monster vegetable, which could make an estimated 4 lbs 4 oz( 2kg) of chips, was unearthed by Colin Craig-Brown, who mistook it for a huge fungus at first. The small farm owner, who lives in Ha

When Nabila was a judge in Afghanistan’s Supreme Court, she granted divorces to women whose husbands were sometimes jailed for assaulting or kidnapping them.... Like the other women interviewed for this story, her full name has been withheld for her protection. Within days, Nabila said, she began receiving death threat calls from former prisoners.... “ A dark future is awaiting everyone in Afghanistan, especially female judges.” More than 200 female judges remain in Afghanistan, many of them u

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