A woman in Henan, China, subjected her boyfriend to a three-hour childbirth simulation, resulting in severe abdominal pain and emergency surgery for him. The man's mother called off the engagement ...

‘OK, that’s that. It’s over now,’ Björn Ulvaeus thought after Abba broke up in 1982. ‘But,’ as Chal Ravens writes in the latest LRB, ‘Björn’s zeitgeist detector was, as usual, on the blink.’ By the ...