Christine Ro

Flying should be uncomfortable, inconvenient, and unglamorous.

Back in 2014, my partner and I marked a date in our shared online calendar.

If you’ve ever been romantically rejected by someone who just wanted to be friends, you may have delivered a version of this line: “I’ve got enough friends already.”

“As Arabs we have to make sure we have three things when we pack: our passports, a bunch of cash, and a handheld portable bidet,” joked Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef during his debut UK performance in June.

“At night there are so many mosquitoes, we can’t stay outside,” says young, smiling Madhavi Sharma.

Tshering Tobgay is sweating. I meet the young, earnest monk while in a hallway of a referral hospital in the Bhutanese border town of Gelephu.

Zahid Khan didn’t mince words. “He’s an asshole,” Khan said flatly.

Climate Perks is an initiative encouraging employees to choose low-carbon transport options for their holidays.

“I was never a country person. I always thought that I would live in the city for my whole life,” Jennifer Weedon Palazzo, 42, says.

I think of dentists as being composed and calm. They’ve got all the power over quaking patients, after all. But dentists might be just as nervous as their patients, laughs Fadil Elamin. To quiet his nerves, “Some days I have to take a paracetamol.”

Here’s a riddle for you puzzle lovers: decipher the meaning of “feet-stick."

Several years ago, William Preston began feeling the pressure of time. He and his husband, who had been together since they were teenagers, were now in their 30s and beginning to think seriously about starting a family.