Mariam Ait Hmeid

An 11-year-old Iranian girl who is a student at Aylesbury High School beats both Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein’s IQ scores by getting the highest Mensa IQ scores. Tara Sharif’s results were 162 points, this score indicates that she way above the so called ‘genius benchmark’ of 140. Stephen Hawking was known to have an IQ of 160 and it is believed that Einstein, who never got to take the test, would have also had an IQ level at 160.

History was made as Malaysia appointed their first female chief justice, Tengku Maimun. She is the first woman to ascend to the highest judicial office of the country.

Mona Eltahawy, an award winning American Egyptian feminist and journalist cancelled a lecture that she was supposed to give at the Dutch ‘De Balie’. Two years ago, the debate center in Amsterdam hosted a controversial discussion about ‘banning Muslims’, and for Eltahawy that was the reason to critically look into the center and cancel her planned lecture. The ‘Muslim ban’ Eltahawy was invited on Wednesday to talk about what happens after the #metoo discussion, but had to cancel her lecture.