Dr Who, that fixture of British pop culture known to generations, is now a woman. The Time Lord will be played by Jodie Whittaker in the new season and will confound evil genius with her superior powers. Next, an Icelandic doctor is able to get babies to stand up straight at three months. It’s as if they were six months older than their actual age. Other physicians have difficulty figuring how he does it. Below that, Martin Landau is dead at 89 and a Syrian refugee couple have named their baby boy after the prime minister.
