Prince Charles73, heir to the British throne, apparently doesn’t look too closely at money. A report of Sunday Times according to the eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II accepted a million-dollar donation from the half-brothers of the terrorist Osama bin Laden. The amount of one million pounds (1.19 million euros) went to the charity Prince of Wales’s Charitable Fund. Charles met with Saudi businessman Bakr bin Laden in October 2013 at his London residence, Clarence House. Several advisors had asked him not to accept or pay back the money. However, Charles ignored her concerns that the donation could damage his reputation. Osama bin Laden was the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States that killed thousands. There is no evidence that Bakr bin Laden and his brother Shafiq were involved in the assassination or support terrorism. However, it’s not the first time Charles has been criticized for making a donation to his foundation. Just a few weeks ago she had Sunday Times reports that the Queen’s son accepted a total of three million euros in cash from Qatar’s ex-Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani between 2011 and 2015.
Isabel Allende, 79, Chilean writer, worried about the progress of society. “If we women are not vigilant and fight against such tendencies, then we lose rights that we have already fought for,” she said world on Sunday. Allende referred to the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the recent Supreme Court ruling on abortion. At the end of June, the US Supreme Court ruled that no fundamental right to an abortion could be derived from the constitution. In doing so, it overturned the “Roe v. Wade” ruling of 1973, which had led to extensive legalization of abortions. In some countries, women have to worry “because they are being raped and molested and are therefore not crossing the street,” Allende said. When she herself became a feminist in the 1970s, “it wasn’t a good thing. Being called a feminist was almost an insult. That’s not the case anymore.”
Matthew Maurer, 52, astronaut, has wanderlust. When asked what he misses about the International Space Station, he told the German Press Agency: “Of course looking down at the earth. That’s what the best memory is.” He also misses “floating” in weightlessness, the nice community with colleagues and “being away from earthly problems” – such as the energy crisis or Corona. What he, on the other hand, likes to do without: the time pressure. Each day was completely planned with experiments and activities. He is currently looking forward to “being in control of his own day again”. He’s settled down on earth: “I’m the same as before,” he said. “There might be a very small difference in terms of fitness or mobility.” But that’s normal. “If you fly six months, the rule of thumb is that it also takes six months for the body to be like it was before the flight.”
Marie Luise Marjan, 81, actress, gives little advice on family careers. Her father saw her dream of becoming an actress as “unprofitable art,” she said on the NDR talk show. He wanted her to become a nurse or secretary instead. But: “The urge was just so strong that I jumped all the hurdles.” Marjan became known as mother Beimer in the television soap opera “Lindenstraße” and was also in front of the television camera and on the theater stage for many other films and series. As a young woman, she kept herself financially afloat in Hamburg, among other things, as a “washing machine representative” and convinced other people to have their laundry washed by a certain company. “It was actually good practice as an actress. I had to convince people.”