Pakistan’s Women Rise Up | Meet the Joker's Director

His mother was killed for doing her job in Malta. Now he’s seeking justice.

Matthew Caruana Galizia, 33, is a reluctant celebrity in Malta. He was catapulted into the spotlight when his mother, Daphne, the island state’s most prominent investigative journalist at the time, was assassinated in October 2017: A bomb planted beneath the driver’s seat of her car exploded as she drove away from the family home.

That explosion, which Caruana heard and was one of the first to respond to, changed his life forever.

They are battling wage discrimination, challenging police wrongdoing and even inspiring male worker unions.

Popular Pakistani qawwali singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan plays on Karachi’s airwaves as men offload sacks filled with cloth scraps from trucks and take them into warehouses. There, they’re separated by size and either taken back to factories or sold in markets as stuffing for cushions. But while the pay is paltry for all, men receive almost 50 percent more than women — $3.80 against $2.60 daily — for the same work. For decades, such wage disparity was a given. Now that’s slowly changing.

Freelance “spiritual entertainer” Alan Watts has an even larger following for his lectures today, nearly half a century after his death.

Alan Watts was a walking TED Talk. The British Zen Buddhist philosopher and self-described “spiritual entertainer” could hold a room in the thrall of his engaging personality, prophetic voice and seemingly endless extemporaneous wisdom. He would talk for hours without notes, entertaining large audiences with his charm and a steady smorgasbord of easily digestible spiritual wisdom. So it’s rather fitting that Watts, who died in 1973, is now enjoying a second life on YouTube, where decades-old recordings of his lectures — invariably accompanied by classical music and video montages of scenic splendor — garner millions of views.