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Carvana gives you control by letting you customize your down and monthly payments. You can browse tens of thousands of cars online to find one within your budget. The last US troops have withdrawn from Afghanistan, ending America's longest war. Where is Morocco's king? Ever since he fell in with some social media savvy mixed martial artists, he hasn't shown the kind of leadership that Moroccans are clamoring for.

Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collapse has not come and some aspects of government have improved; it turns out threats of grotesque violence change behaviours. We investigate the curious case of Morocco’s absent king—and his unlikely mixed-martial-artist pals. And how the mobile phone has shaped cinema for half a century.

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