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Czech youths protest their leaders with eggs
For politicians in the Czech Republic, the European elections have turned the country into something of a sticky battleground. For the past two weeks the country's leaders have been faced with...
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Diary of a young woman campaigning for reform
Young supporters of Mirhossein Mousavi don themselves in green. Iran has one of the largest female student populations in the world, and yet for the past four years this segment of society has been...
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Iran election: 'This time… we have to vote'
Image posted on Flickr by "Faith Today". Iran's tenth presidential election takes place this Friday and the race is heating up. Current president Ahmadinejad and reformist Mirhossein Mousavi, both...
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No library near you? Luis’s donkeys will bring one
Photo : Diana Arias. Posted on the blog elbiblioburro. Luis Soriano, an unemployed Colombian schoolteacher, spreads knowledge and literature to places where no librarian has ever set foot. He brings...
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Six-year-old dreams of becoming a "corrupt official"
Looking on the bright side of going "back to school", one Chinese journalist decided to ask a group of infant school children what they want to do when they grow up. Most of the answers are pretty...
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Women can't drive, but children can
Women are strictly forbidden from driving in Saudi Arabia. So you can imagine how Susie, an American expat living in Jeddah, feels when she sees boys barely older than ten cruising at the wheel of...
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No Halloween for “stupid foreigners”
Photo posted here. For some years now expats and travellers in Tokyo have been piling into metro carriages on October 31 to celebrate Halloween. This year however, the masked partygoers were stopped in...
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YouTube assault video worsens Somali reputation
A group of Minneapolis teenagers have found themselves making headlines after publishing a video of themselves pushing people over in the street. Identified as of Somali origin, the pranksters will,...
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Beijing graduates crammed into slums like "ants"
Don't expect a university degree to guarantee you a decent standard of living in the Chinese capital. So poor and desperate are the city's young graduates, they have been labelled "ants" for their...
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Sanitizing gel: great for your hands, not so great for your stomach
Hand sanitizer sales have shot up since the outbreak of the swine flu pandemic, giving rise to an unexpected side trend: getting high on the alcohol-based substance. Take a look at the main active...
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“Sex bracelets”, a harmless craze or a dangerous game?
"Sex bracelets" are the latest craze amongst Brazilian teenagers. A successor to friendship bracelets, each of these cheap coloured wristbands relates to a type of sexual activity. While it was...
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France cracks down on Facebook gatherings after reveller dies
Drinkers in Nantes, 12 May 2010. Photo posted on Flickr by "viewti-vlad". Enjoying an aperitif with friends is almost mandatory in France. But just how many friends? The latest craze is to get together...
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Youth supporters of Gbagbo and Ouattara clash in Cocody
On the eve of the second round of the presidential campaign, clashes have broken our between FESCI members (the pro-Gbagbo student union) and youths from the RHDP, an opposition coalition. Read an...
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TeleGhetto: reporting from Haiti with an oil can and a hairbrush
Every day, three Haitian high-school students -- Alex-Louis, Jean-Pierre and Steevens -- interview their fellow residents in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Initially armed with nothing but a hairbrush...
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Norway survivor: "I lay on the beach surrounded by bodies, playing dead"
On July 22, Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian right-wing extremist, planted two bombs near an Oslo government building and went on a brutal shooting spree in a Labour Party youth camp on...
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