As often as we can, we aspire to be your daily good-news bearer. Disney's "Aladdin" is about to get its very own live-action remake. Feeling butterflies in your stomach yet?

A few months ago, the team behind the movie made an open casting call for their lead actors to play the male and female protagonists. There was one primary condition: they must look Middle Eastern (or be ones for all that matters.)

Last Sunday, news spread that director Guy Ritchie intends on casting actor Tom Hardy as the villainous "Jafar." There's one problem though, Hardy is white. 

As much as we love the English actor, this decision sounds a tad unfair. This whole Ridley Scott whitewashing Exodus: Gods and Kings situation will not happen again. 

Why in the name of Agrabah are they looking for a white man to play "Jafar" when the evil sorcerer is obviously of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent?

What's next? Change Jasmine's name to Jessie and have her dye her hair blonde? 

This is absolutely unacceptable, and we just won't allow it. The Internet, rightfully so, lost it and took to Twitter to express their fury.

Some of the angered fans of the classic tale even suggested a few Middle Eastern-looking actors to choose from instead of Hardy.

But most of them chose Riz Ahmed of HBO’s The Night Of and Girls, as well as Disney’s latest Rogue One.

Thankfully, one of Hardy’s representatives told HuffPost UK that there is no truth to any of these claims whatsoever. 

Now that we can finally keep our calm, allow us to aboard the Riz Ahmed-Jafar ship. You're more than welcome to join unless you prefer Aladdin's flying carpet. 

Qatar-born Sudanese athlete Mutaz Barshim is well on his way to making history. 

The 26-year-old track and field athlete, who specializes in high jumps, recently broke a 28-year-old meeting record at the IAAF Diamond League, the annual series of track and field meetings organized by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).

Barshim also made the highest jump recorded by a male athlete in the high jump category this year.

Dubbed "Qatar's baby-faced assassin" by the IAAF, Barshim made a 2.38-meter jump, the highest in the history of the competition. He broke the previous meeting record (2.37 meters) that has been held by Cuba's Javier Sotomayor, the world record-holder since 1989.

Barshim set the new meeting record despite a shaky start, having failed at the 2.35-meter jump twice before clearing the mark in his last attempt. He went on to hit the 2.38-meter mark in his second attempt at the jump, winning the competition by a landslide, with all other competitors achieving less than 2.30 meters.

Barshim's achievement at the Diamond League is also the best recorded in the world so far this year.

He told the media that he had been aiming at breaking the meeting record. "That was the target," he said. "We came for 2.38, so mission completed. At the beginning, I was feeling a little bit sleepy, but after 2.33, I woke up and came into the right rhythm."

Born in Doha to a Sudanese family, Barshim has made a name for himself in the world of athletics.

In 2014, he made a 2.43-meter jump, which is the current Asian record and the second highest jump of all time after Javier Sotomayor (2.45 meters).

He won a bronze and silver medal at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games respectively and currently has his eyes set on the gold for Tokyo 2020. Qatar had only bronze medals in its Olympic tally until Barshim took silver in Rio 2016.

The high-jumper has several regional and international medals to his credit, including a World Indoor Championship gold and a World Championship silver.