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11 of the best international premium reads for your long-weekend

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A sherpa works to bring the body of Goutam Ghosh down Mount Everest in May 2017. Photo / Dawa Finjhok Sherpa, Seven Summit Treks, The New York Times

A sherpa works to bring the body of Goutam Ghosh down Mount Everest in May 2017. Photo / Dawa Finjhok Sherpa, Seven Summit Treks, The New York Times

Welcome to Friday and congratulations on making it through the week. Your reward? A three-day weekend.

What better way to spend Queen's Birthday (and the extra day up your sleeve) than catching up on all the great big reads from the week?

To say it's been a busy news week is an understatement. The drama out of Parliament with the Budget leak gripped the country. Internationally, too, there's been a lot happening, particularly with the shocking number of deaths on Mt Everest.

So if you're looking for some great features to read over the weekend, here are 11 international pieces that are well worth checking out.

1. Deliverance from 8200 metres: The quest to bring bodies down from Everest

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The death toll from a traffic jam of climbers on Mount Everest rose to 11 over the past two weeks, as a record number of people attempted to scale the world's highest peak.
Hundreds have died trying to scale Everest, and its icy graveyard holds many bodies. In 2017, New York Times reporter John Branch wrote about the desperate and dangerous pursuit to find two Indian climbers who died trying to reach the summit.

Also read: • As Everest melts, bodies are emerging from the ice

• These are the victims of a deadly climbing season at Mount Everest

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Queues of climbers lining up to stand at the summit of Mount Everest. Photo / Project Possible, AFP
Queues of climbers lining up to stand at the summit of Mount Everest. Photo / Project Possible, AFP

2. She had stage 4 lung cancer, and a mountain to climb

Isabella de la Houssaye raised her five children on adventure. Then came a brutal cancer diagnosis, and a burning desire for a final journey with each one.

Rebecca Byerly of The New York Times follows Isabella and her daughter as they tackled Acongagua, the highest summit outside the Himalayas.

Isabella de la Houssaye and her daughter Bella share a moment in their tent at Camp One during the ascent of Aconcagua. Photo / Max Whittaker, The New York Times
Isabella de la Houssaye and her daughter Bella share a moment in their tent at Camp One during the ascent of Aconcagua. Photo / Max Whittaker, The New York Times

3. In sickness and in health: Living with Lyme disease

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Brian Nicholson's first impression of Brooke Geahan was that she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever met. His second impression? That she was really sick.

Formerly wildly social, an avid tennis player, and a mainstay of New York City's downtown literary scene, Geahan was battling Lyme disease. On May 11, the couple joined 120 friends and family at the Viansa Sonoma winery in Northern California wine country for a truly magical wedding.

The New York Times charts a love story with tragic twists and highly-charged emotion.

Also read: • She said yes. Fourteen times

The wedding of Brooke Geahan and Brian Nicholson, at the Viansa Sonoma winery in Sonoma, California. The two met when Geahan was battling Lyme disease. Photo / Anastasiia Sapon, The New York Times
The wedding of Brooke Geahan and Brian Nicholson, at the Viansa Sonoma winery in Sonoma, California. The two met when Geahan was battling Lyme disease. Photo / Anastasiia Sapon, The New York Times

4. How the Winklevoss twins became bitcoin billionaires

The Winklevoss twins finally have something to shout about. Remember them? They were the square-jawed Teutons, made famous in the 2010 film The Social Network, who whined that their former Harvard classmate Mark Zuckerberg had stolen the original idea for Facebook from them.

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Now they have made it big, revenge is in the air. Danny Fortson of The Times reports.

Also read: • Why Facebook wants to launch its own currency

Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss once sued Mark Zuckerberg claiming Facebook was their idea. Now, they say their second act is even bigger. Photo / Getty Images
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss once sued Mark Zuckerberg claiming Facebook was their idea. Now, they say their second act is even bigger. Photo / Getty Images

5. She thought she'd married a rich Chinese farmer. She hadn't

Rabia Kanwal's parents were sure her marriage to a wealthy Chinese Muslim she had just met would give her a comfortable future, far from the hardships of their lives in Pakistan. But she had a premonition.

A New York Times investigation looks into arranged marriages as China's one-child bachelors seek wives as far afield as Pakistan.

Rabia Kanwal and Zhang Shuchen were married in Islamabad in January. Eight days after they went to his home in China, she left to return to Pakistan. Photo / New York Times
Rabia Kanwal and Zhang Shuchen were married in Islamabad in January. Eight days after they went to his home in China, she left to return to Pakistan. Photo / New York Times

6. Tiger's cheating to Phelps' marijuana: When endorsement deals go wrong

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In December of 2009 marketers at Accenture, AT&T, Gatorade, General Motors, Gillette, Nike, TAG Heuer and other companies faced a difficult decision. After tabloid reports of infidelity and an alleged altercation with his wife that ended in a car crash, Tiger Woods — who had endorsement deals with those firms — publicly (if vaguely) apologised for his behaviour and announced that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf.

This posed a problem - what should brands do when scandal hits an endorser?

In 2010, Tiger Woods admitted his extra-marital affairs to the media. Photo / Getty Images
In 2010, Tiger Woods admitted his extra-marital affairs to the media. Photo / Getty Images

7. Serena Williams won't be silenced. Her clothes are doing the talking

For most of the history of women's tennis, the "dress" has symbolised the feminine side of the game in its most retrograde sense, and been used as a means of gender stereotype, self-expression, and eyeball-attracting marketing

Finally, however, in the hands of Serena Williams, it has become a political tool.

A year after the catsuit controversy, the tennis star is smashing old rules and stereotypes.

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Serena Williams during the first round of the French Open. Photo / AP
Serena Williams during the first round of the French Open. Photo / AP

8. 30 years after Tiananmen, a Chinese military insider warns: Never forget

For three decades, Jiang Lin kept quiet about the carnage she had seen on the night when the Chinese army rolled through Beijing to crush student protests in Tiananmen Square.

Now, the former People's Liberation Army journalist has defied a political taboo to describe the bloody crackdown in Beijing and urge a national reckoning.

A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Photo / AP
A Chinese man stands alone to block a line of tanks heading east on Beijing's Cangan Blvd. in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989. Photo / AP

9. Putting our kids in charge of our South America trip

The idea: On a family trip to Buenos Aires, the Spanish-speaking children would make the plans. Helado and lagrimas ensued.

Ice creams and trantrums. What happens when you put the children's Spanish to the test and leave them in charge of the family holiday.

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Also read: • Rise in unruly behaviour on planes tied to stress of social status

Carne, a burger restaurant with good vegetarian options, in Buenos Aire. Photo / Agustin Nieto
Carne, a burger restaurant with good vegetarian options, in Buenos Aire. Photo / Agustin Nieto

10. Millennials 'make farming sexy' in Africa

After he graduated from university, Vozbeth Kofi Azumah was reluctant to tell anyone — even his mother — what he planned to do for a living.

"I'm a farmer," he said, buzzing his motorcycle between freshly ploughed fields on a recent afternoon. "Here, that's an embarrassment."

In a place where farming is a synonym for poverty, a growing number of young, college-educated Africans are attempting to fight the stigma.

Vozbeth Kofi Azumah, who grows snails and giant rats on his farm in Ghana, is among an increasing number of college-educated agricultural entrepreneurs in Africa. Photo / Nana Kofi Acquah, NY Times
Vozbeth Kofi Azumah, who grows snails and giant rats on his farm in Ghana, is among an increasing number of college-educated agricultural entrepreneurs in Africa. Photo / Nana Kofi Acquah, NY Times

11. Becoming Aladdin: Mena Massoud on his big break and the film's big issues

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When Mena Massoud, the star of the new Aladdin live-action remake, got the first callback for the title role, he decided not to revisit the beloved 1992 animated original. Instead he wanted to draw inspiration from the underlying theme: a "journey of personal identity."

The little-known actor talks casting controversies, questions of representation and how he held his own with Will Smith.

Also read: • Rewriting history won't fix Disney's problematic past

Mena Massoud, the star of the new Aladdin live-action remake. He was one of more than 2000 hopefuls who auditioned for the role. Photo / Philip Cheung, The New York Times
Mena Massoud, the star of the new Aladdin live-action remake. He was one of more than 2000 hopefuls who auditioned for the role. Photo / Philip Cheung, The New York Times
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