On Tuesday 7th June, experts working in schools and with young girls who suffer sexual harassment and abuse inside and outside the classroom told an inquiry by the parliamentary women and equalities select committee that action needed to be taken to tackle the “ticking time-bomb” of sexual bullying in classrooms.

On the 29th May, Turkey marked the 1453 Ottoman conquest of Istanbul on its 563rd anniversary with a grandiose ceremony including the participation of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım, alongside an estimated million spectators, in the city’s coastal Yenikapı Square.

A covert meeting in a Sydney car park turned out to be a police sting for 18-year-old Tamim Khaja, who was reportedly charged with two terrorism offences related to a planned attack. Police allege talking soon gave way to something more and the teenager had visited government offices and police stations in Sydney in the past two weeks and had tried to buy a gun.

This week, Muslim women featured once again in British newspapers, with the Guardian sporting the headline “British Muslim women don't need male chaperones - this isn't 7th century Arabia”.