Book of the dayElif ShafakReviewA tale of love and division moves between postcolonial Cyprus and London, exploring themes of generational trauma and belonging “The feeling of being ‘in between things’ is good for [writers],” said Elif Shafak in a 2014 interview. This delight in liminal spaces forms the bedrock of her 12th novel, which charts the moving story of Kostas and Defne Kazantzakis, young lovers in a painfully divided postcolonial Cyprus – one Greek and Christian, the other Turkish and Muslim – and the emotional price they continue to pay after moving to England.

Verne Troyer This article is more than 5 years oldVerne Troyer’s tragic death underlines the harm Mini-Me caused people with dwarfismThis article is more than 5 years oldEugene GrantThe role of the aggressive, biddable pet in the Austin Powers films did huge damage to the dwarfism community and our struggle for respect I have dwarfism. I was 13 when Verne Troyer hit our screens as Mini-Me in Austin Powers sequel The Spy Who Shagged Me.

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It was just a matter of time, but Conor McGregor has finally been sued by a UFC fighter for that April bus attack at Barclay's Center where he threw a steel dolly through a window, injuring several people. The man behind the first lawsuit is Michael Chiesa -- who was scheduled to fight Anthony Pettis at UFC 223 but was forced to pull out due to the injuries he received in the bus attack.

World newsCollar bombColombia's Marxist guerrillas rigged a bomb around the neck of a woman who rebelled against their systematic campaign of extortion, killing her and a policeman hours later when the bomb exploded as he struggled to prise the collar loose. Three security force members were maimed by the blast. Police and army spokesmen said the bomb marked an unprecedented act of terror in a conflict that has claimed more than 35,000 lives in the last decade.