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New regulations state that every team in FIFA's women's football tournaments must include at least one female head coach or assistant coach.
The requirements will come into effect during the under 17s and under 20s Women's World Cup and Women's Champions Cup competitions this year. Kylie Pentelow caught up on the news with Fern Buckley, sports presenter and former Talksport commentator, and Claire Buzzeo, a football coach at the Sunderland football academy.

Cuba is experiencing one of its worst economic and humanitarian crises in decades. We hear from entrepreneur Idania del Rio who explains what it鈥檚 like for Cuban women to live under longstanding embargo restrictions and 麻豆社 Cuba Correspondent Will Grant joins Kylie from Havana to explain the political landscape and the impact of US sanctions.

This week the Government told the 麻豆社 that they need to make big changes to the adoption system. Josh MacAlister, the Children and Families minister, apologised to adoptive parents and said that too many of them have been left isolated, to battle a system that doesn鈥檛 understand them. His comments follow a 麻豆社 investigation last year which found there was widespread blame of parents who were pleading with the authorities for support. Kylie speaks to 麻豆社 Special correspondent Judith Moritz who led the investigation and Sara Taylor, an adoptive mum of two and CEO and founder of peer support organisation, It Takes A Village.

Shelley Klein is a writer and psychotherapist whose new novel follows the story of a woman whose husband of 25 years announces he鈥檚 leaving her, just at the same time that she finds out she has cancer. She tells Kylie about why she wanted to write the book: My Husband and Other Rats.

Presenter: Kylie Pentelow
Producer: Corinna Jones