• Kevin Spacey is “a man who does not respect personal boundaries or space, a man who it would seem delights in making others feel powerless and uncomfortable — a sexual bully,” Prosecutor Christine Agnew said in her opening statement.
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• With sky-high inflation and foreign exchange reserves barely enough to cover one month of controlled imports, analysts say Pakistan's economic crisis could have spiralled into a debt default in the absence of an IMF deal.
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• While President Macron visibly struggles to get the situation under control, his political nemesis on the far-right - Marine Le Pen - with her tough-on-security, anti-immigration message - may well end up benefitting in the polls.
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• Cambodia’s long-serving, tough-talking leader, Hun Sen, says he is considering banning Facebook in his country, largely because he is fed up with the abuse he receives on it from his political foes abroad.
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• The Supreme Court struck down admissions plans at Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the nation's oldest private and public colleges, respectively; declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies.
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• In the 1970s, against the backdrop of the anti-apartheid movement and increasing pressure from the international sports community, the country maintained its racist policies. In 1970 South Africa was excluded from the Davis Cup and the International Olympic Committee banned the country’s representatives, alongside other sports boycotts at the time.
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