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A screenshot of the Silk Road website, allegedly an underground online drug market, after it was closed by U.S. authorities November 6, 2014.
Technology
Will the real Dread Pirate Roberts please stand up?
University of Cape Town students.
Culture
Here’s how South African students talk about race and gender
Pope Francis holds up a plaque with an image of Saint Theresa during a meeting with journalists on his flight from Colombo, Sri Lanka, to Manila in the Philippines on January 15, 2014.
Belief
Pope Francis says religious freedom trumps the right to free speech
Oscar noms
Arts
Global themes dominate this year’s Oscar nominations
Emmanuel Mudiay drives to the hoop during a high school game for Prime Academy in Texas. Mudiay is now playing in China and making seven figures instead of playing in college.
Sports
China, not college, could be the next finishing school for top NBA prospects
This Sprite stash can was purchased by a bot that was scouring the Darknet and buying random options. Shipping took almost a month.
Culture
The Darknet is a space for vice — is it also a space for art?
No Tobogganing sign on Murray's Mountain, Orangeville, Ontario.
Sports
Canadians rally for their right to toboggan
Satellite image showing the extent of damage in Doron Baga taken on January 7, 2015, following an attack by Boko Haram.
Conflict
Satellite images offer ‘vivid’ evidence of Boko Haram devastation
A painting of Prophet Muhammad's vision in Mecca from Tabriz, 1320 CE. In this painting, his facial features are not covered.
Belief
You can’t draw Muhammad — unless you’re one of many Muslim artists who did
View of Aleppo’s public park from a rooftop. Many buildings in the background have been damaged or destroyed.
Music
How a punk rocker from DC got interested in ancient songs from Syria
A woman in Plaza Miranda, outside Quiapo Church in Manila, sells off her dwindling stock of Pope Francis t-shirts in advance of the Pope's visit to the Philippines.
Belief
Filipino Catholics welcome Pope Francis with fervency, hope and souvenir T-shirts
The Kouachi brothers gesture after shooting up the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris last week.
Justice
Where did the Paris attackers get their guns?