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The selfie craze speaks volumes about the era in which we live: how images race around the globe and can dominate public discourse, eliciting...
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Police in the US state of Georgia have released a poignant video of officers finding an abandoned newborn girl inside a plastic bag, as...
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Haytham Salem has not spoken to his sister in years, but this is no ordinary family feud. When Islamic State jihadists overran Iraq’s Mosul,...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin during his annual marathon phone-in on Thursday claimed kudos for the release of whales held in cramped pens and intended...
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Saudi Arabia has rendered toothless the once-feared religious police amid a liberalisation drive, but a planned “public decency” law is stoking controversy with some...
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Hunting rifles, pistols and towers of ammunition magazines: new gun shops are popping up in Iraq’s Mosul, where residents are keen to own personal...
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Two Saudis vent their opinions publicly. One is detained, the other is acquitted after the right to free speech is invoked. Such inconsistencies are...
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The new finding comes from the Field Museum, and here anthropologists and archaeologists make the case that a steady, reliable access to beer helped...
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Foreign ministers from the world’s seven most developed nations on Saturday urged a greater role for women in solving conflicts, saying that peace settlements...
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A Saudi teen’s live-tweeted asylum plea has cast a renewed spotlight on women’s rights just months after women won the right to drive, and...