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Lauren Yees A Man, His Wife and His Hat is bold and funny, but occasionally flawed

The Cheetos-eating Golem is not the quirkiest character in "A Man, His Wife, and His Hat," the audaciously kooky play by Lauren Yee: That honor goes to the exuberantly self-satisfied talking Wall, who likes to meddle in everyone's business. A close runner-up would be Hetchman, the eponymous couch-potato husband, who idealizes a long-worn feathered fedora

My life as an ISIS sex slave and how I escaped

Nadia Murad grew up dreaming of owning a beauty salon. The youngest of 11 children in a Yazidi family in northwest Iraq, she took photographs of all the brides in her tiny village, studying their makeup and hair. Her favorite was of a brunette woman with curls piled high atop her head.

Olympic riders get a memorable gallop in the sumptuous-looking Versailles Palace gardens

VERSAILLES, France The Palace of Versailles offers equestrian sports one of the most attractive venues of the Paris Olympics. On Sunday, riders and horses got a memorable gallop around the sumptuous-looking gardens where the team and individual eventing competition was taking place.

The re-enactors who find romance

By Greig WatsonBBC News Love can find you in many places. At work, in a bar - or perhaps when you are dressed as a bloodthirsty gladiator. Re-enactment - getting dressed as civilians and soldiers from the past - is more often associated with metal polish and facial hair than matchmaking.

The rise and fall of a parenting influencer

By Mattea BubaloBBC News A woman who sprang to fame giving controversial parenting advice has been charged with six counts of child abuse. What happened to Ruby Franke and her family? On a late August morning in Utah, a 12-year-old boy covered in open wounds knocked at the door of a neighbour's house asking for