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Protesters attend a rally in support of Ukraine, in Tbilisi, Georgia, on August 29, 2014.
Conflict
Ukraine seeks NATO membership as Russia moves troops across the border
Vehicles submerged in flood waters along the South Platte River near Greenley, Colorado in 2013. Scientists believe climate change is already bringing more flooding to river corridors and coastal areas around the world.
Environment
The climate word of the day is ‘irreversible’
Sergei Dovlatov in 1980.
Books
Which New York City borough will soon be home Sergei Dovlatov Way?
According to Bellingcat, information in the James Foley execution video helped geolocate that the video was filmed Raqqa, an Islamic State stronghold in north-central Syria.
Media
This hobbyist-turned-journalist is a one-man digital detective agency
Hello Kitty
Culture
Hello Kitty turns 40 this year and she’s got news!
Armed police officers pose for the media on Downing Street, in central London, on August 29, 2014.
Conflict
The number of British Islamist fighters rises, and so does the UK’s threat level
Twitter map
Global Politics
Canada opens up a new front against Russia — Twitter snark
Perry_Texas
Justice
Sending the Texas National Guard to the border might be money poorly spent
The lobster rolls at The Clam Digger, a restaurant in New Brunswick, Canada
Food
A tidier, more polite lobster roll … courtesy of Canada
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 29, 2014
Music
We remember Peret, whose musical genius gave us the musical style Rumba Catalana
American radio journalist Jocelyn Ford and Tibetan migrant Zanta are the main characters in “Nowhere to Call Home.”
Culture
Prejudice, exclusion and sexism is all part of life for a Tibetan migrant in Beijing
Salvador
Conflict
A push is on in the US to reunite families torn apart by El Salvador’s civil war
According to a local newspaper in Pskov, Russia, this is the grave of a Russian soldier who died last week. The grave is close to the base of the 76th airborne division cited for heroism by President Putin last week.
Conflict
Ukraine faces up to a Russian invasion, while Moscow keeps denying it
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 28, 2014
Mosque in Turkey
Belief
This architect says the most important feature of a mosque is its sustainability
A Kurdish fighter shows off his new weapons outside the gun bazaar. Behind him is the prison that sits next to the market.
Conflict
Kurdish soldiers are paying for their weapons out of their own pockets
A United Nations peacekeeper stands guard are Haitians gather to see U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit the village of Los Palmas.
Conflict
Haitian moms demand UN help for the babies their peacekeepers left behind
Germany's Christoph Kramer —concussion
Sports
Concussions in soccer are a real thing. So why not change the substitution rule?
DACA_Asian_American
Justice
Undocumented Asian immigrants shy away from revealing their status
Gold bars
Arts
A German artist creates a gold rush on an English beach
This photo purportedly shows an ISIS class of 2014 martial arts graduation photo, and in the background, a bridge spanning a large river.
Media
A blogger’s hobby becomes a valuable war reporting tool
A job seeker looks at recruitment advertisements at a labor market in Guangdong province, where most people speak Cantonese.
Culture
Beijing has a message for China’s Cantonese speakers — stick to Mandarin!
A man holds up a knife as he rides on the back of a motorcycle touring the streets of Tabqa in celebration after ISIS militants took over Tabqa air base in Syria, on August 24, 2014.
Conflict
This could be the end of reporting from Syria
A Ukrainian serviceman fires at pro-Russian separatists in the eastern Ukrainian town of Ilovaysk, Tuesday.
Conflict
Radio and phone intercepts provide insight into the conflict in Ukraine
Yusuf Sarwar and Mohammed Ahmed ordered "The Koran For Dummies" from Amazon before leaving the UK to fight in the war in Syria.
Global Politics
No, buying ‘The Koran for Dummies’ doesn’t mean you’ll get Islam right
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 27, 2014
John Jairo Velásquez — commonly known as "Popeye" — gives his testimony against fellow Colombian drug cartel members in 2006.
Justice
The release of ‘Popeye,’ a trusted assassin for Pablo Escobar, enrages many Colombians
Music
How a Chicago bluegrass band rocked Nigeria’s music scene
The TaHa Mosque in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Belief
The US has a wide variety of mosques, and these two guys have seen a lot of them
"Bread and Dripping," a traditional English dish, is the first course of Tom Sellers' menu at his London eatery, Restaurant Story.
Food
This English chef is bringing working-class ‘bread and dripping’ to his finest patrons
A screen shot from Gandhi with extra Aseem Chhabra as a passenger in the background on the train. In the foreground is Saeed Jaffrey (left) as Sardar Patel and Gunter Maria Halmer playing Herman Kallenbach.
Arts
Richard Attenborough’s Gandhi needed hundreds of thousands of extras. Meet one of them
Nancy Curtis, mother of American writer Peter Theo Curtis, briefly answers reporters' questions outside her home in Cambridge, Massachusetts August 25, 2014. Al Qaeda-linked militants in Syria on Sunday freed Peter Theo Curtis, who has been missing since
Conflict
Peter Theo Curtis’ release raises questions about Qatari links with Syrian terrorists
The Magna Carta
The World That Was
The Magna Carta, nearly 800 years old, still influences modern perceptions of civil rights
Tim Hortons employees prepare coffee before the company's annual general meeting in Toronto on May 8, 2014.
Business
Canadian doughnut chain Tim Hortons gets swallowed up by Burger King
The passenger terminal at Tripoli's international airport after recent attacks.
Conflict
Three years after its civil war, Libya is on the brink of another
Kate English singer Kate Bush returns to the stage after a 35-year hiatus, and her fans around the world are coming to see her.
Music
Fans from around the globe are rushing to London to feed their Kate Bush mania
Field workers transplant rice on a farm in Soc Trang Province, Vietnam.
Environment
Rising sea levels mean trouble for Vietnam’s rice farmers
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 26, 2014
Mosque in Alaska
Belief
Alaska’s first mosque prepares to open its doors
The “baby mop” is part of the Mmuseumm’s collection of unique inventions that have US patent-pending status.
Culture
To see life’s oddities, you have to vist an odd place — a museum in an elevator shaft
People in the Syrian city of Tabqa toured the streets in celebration after Islamic State militants took over a government air base nearby on August 24, 2014.
Conflict
Washington is talking tough on ISIS, but its plans for intervention don’t seem to measure up
American journalist Peter Theo Curtis is shown in this undated still frame taken from video courtesy of Al Jazeera on August 24, 2014.
Media
A ‘fearless’ American writer is freed from captivity in Syria
Sir Richard Attenborough
Culture
Director and actor Richard Attenborough saw film as a powerful vehicle for change
Members of the Islamist Syrian rebel group, Jabhat al-Nusra, pose on top a tank in northern Syria earlier this year.
Conflict
In Syria, the Nusra Front tries to distinguish itself from the Islamic State
A Chinese J-11 fighter jet is seen flying near a U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon about 215 km (135 miles) east of China's Hainan Island in this U.S. Department of Defense handout photo taken August 19, 2014.
Conflict
US and Chinese warplanes risk a mid-air collision — and an international incident
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 25, 2014
A class of young Mormon missionaries
Belief
Mormon women are flocking to the mission, but inequalities remain
Canada's Eugenie Bouchard
Sports
A rising tennis star in Canada — Eugenie Bouchard is looking for a Grand Slam win at the US Open
Parishioners hold hands during church services at the Greater St. Mark Family Church as the community discusses reactions to the shooting of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., on August 17, 2014.
Culture
After Ferguson, one woman urges her fellow African immigrants to see themselves simply as black
A table of young men at the Al Atrakchi House cafe in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood. It's decorated with antique Iraqi furniture and artifacts. The owner says he's created this space to remind Iraqis of their country's rich history in hopes they'll be in
Culture
Why these Iraqi kids are bucking the trend — and their parents — to stay in Baghdad
"House Elvis," Eran Levron, performs at The Elvis Inn in Neve Illan, Israel.
Music
Elvis lives — in a small town near Jerusalem
An ad for Uniqlo, the Japanese clothing store that's occasionally referred to as the Japanese GAP.
Business
For the short people among us, Uniqlo’s clothes come to the rescue — for now
Brighton beach
Music
Here are six of our global songs of the summer
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for August 22, 2014
Hamas militants grab a Palestinian suspected of collaborating with Israel before being executed in Gaza City on August 22, 2014. Hamas militants killed seven Palestinians suspected of collaborating with Israel in a public execution in a central Gaza squar
Conflict
Hamas tries to send a message to Israel — with an unprecedented mass execution
Kent Brantly, who contracted the deadly Ebola virus, smiles during a press conference at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia. Brantly along with a second American aid worker who contracted Ebola while treating victims of the deadly virus in Libe
Medicine
Two infected Americans are now Ebola-free, but doctors aren’t sure why
Makoto
Culture
A Japanese American magician named ‘Honesty’ tricks out Cambridge crowds
A militant Islamist fighter uses a mobile to film his fellow fighters taking part in a military parade along the streets of Syria's northern Raqqa province on June 30, 2014.
Media
The extremists who killed James Foley are as brutal as they are Internet savvy
A woman holds up a placard during a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square.
Conflict
After he criticized the Gaza-Israel war, a young Israeli and his girlfriend face isolation