In a recent interview with The Times, Bill Gates admitted that divorcing his ex-wife, Melinda, was probably one of the mistakes he regrets the most. The Microsoft co founder revealed that while he has made plenty of other mistakes, none of them compare to this one. The pair, who were married for 27 years, have…
Melinda Gates and Bill Gates Kevin Mazur/Getty Images Bill Gates is looking back on his divorce from Melinda Gates after more than two decades together. “That was the mistake I most regret,” Bill, 69, told The Times of London of his previous marriage in a profile published on Saturday, January 25, adding that, despite his…
The couple had been together for some three decades before they divorced. She blamed his work for taking a toll on their marriage. But in 2019, a French court ruled that she was solely to blame for the split, after she refused to have sex with him. Europe’s top human rights court on Thursday condemned…
The driver behind a deadly car attack in China’s southern city of Zhuhai in November was executed on Monday, state news agency Xinhua reported. Fan Weiqiu, 62, was convicted of deliberately driving his SUV into a group of people exercising outside a sports centre in Zhuhai on November 11. The attack killed 35 people and…
The well-known Chinese supermarket chain Pang Dong Lai has sparked controversy with rules governing employees’ family and personal matters, such as banning them from beating their children or imposing domestic violence on their spouses. A heated discussion on mainland social media came after the retail giant’s boss Yu Donglai announced a series of new management…
A Chinese mistress paid a “divorce fee” of 1.2 million yuan (US$165,000) to the legal wife of her married lover, only to have her petition for a refund rejected by the court after the wife accepted the money but refused to divorce. In December 2013, a man surnamed Han, based in Shishi, Fujian province in…
China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in…
Going Through It Advice on work, parenting, relationships and mental health from someone who has failed spectacularly (and also succeeded) at all four. Illustration: Emma Erickson Dear Emily, After ending a tumultuous 25-year marriage, I took the time recommended by my therapist of not even thinking about dating for nearly two years (one month for…
The suspect in Monday night’s deadly car attack in Zhuhai is the owner of a construction materials store, according to registration information obtained by the South China Morning Post. In all, 35 people were killed and 43 others injured in what police in the southern Chinese city labelled as a “major malicious case”. The suspect…
Whoever came up with this week’s advertising move for the Calm app is probably going to get a raise. As former president Donald Trump cruised to victory on election night to emerge as the president-elect, and dozens of breaking news alerts went live as swing states were called, the app cashed in. Calm, a mental…