A Muslim economist is attempting to measure how well the world’s countries live by Quranic values.

“We are one,” New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said in the wake of the March mass shooting that left 60 worshippers in two Christchurch mosques dead and turned the small Pacific island nation into the center of the Islamic world’s attention.

New Zealanders came together, regardless of color or creed, to mourn and to help the grieving Muslim community recover. Social integration and empathy are sacred in Islam. New Zealand’s population is only 1 percent Muslim, but according to a new analysis, New Zealand is the country that most closely follows Quranic principles.

Sara Duterte’s increased presence on the Philippine national stage is sparking speculation of a run in 2022.

Sara Duterte first became a national figure in the Philippines in 2011 when, as mayor of the southern city of Davao, she was filmed punching a sheriff during a dispute over a shantytown demolition.

Since her father Rodrigo Duterte’s 2016 presidential victory, she has been propelled further into the national spotlight. She has been seen alongside the populist strongman at official functions, even acting as first lady during the recent state visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Now, only midway through her father’s six-year term, the pugnacious, motorcycle-loving first daughter is increasingly seen by Filipinos as a front-runner in the race to follow him into office.

Lucy Dudko would stop at nothing to free her armed-robber boyfriend from the clink.

Red Lucy descended on Silverwater Jail with a gun in her hand. It was March 25, 1999, and she’d just hijacked a helicopter to bust her boyfriend out of the slammer. The gun was pointed at pilot Tim Joyce, whom she’d hired to take her on a private spin around the Harbour Bridge Track, an area of Sydney that included the village and stadium for the upcoming Olympics. At $360 an hour, it was a small price to pay to break her lover out of prison.

John Killick was in custody at Silverwater, awaiting sentence for armed robbery and the shooting of an off-duty police officer. He’d been in and out of prison all his life — his first bid was in 1966 — mostly for armed robbery to feed a chronic gambling addiction. He met Lucy Dudko at a party in 1995. The Russian-born librarian was married to a scientist at the time, but she left her husband for Killick.