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The main entrance to Castle Doune
Arts
Here’s where to go if you want to fart in someone’s general direction
EU leaders have committed extra ships, planes and helicopters to save lives in the Mediterranean at an emergency summit. More than 1,300 migrants have died in April 2015.
Justice
Destroying smugglers’ boats won’t fix the Mediterranean refugee crisis, this man says
Peace marches have been held to protest against anti-foreigner marches in South Africa.
Conflict
Journalist discusses witnessing the murder that shocked South Africa
An American minister organized a last-minute sea rescue of 250,000 people from the Ottoman city of Smyrna at the height of the Armenian genocide
Books
The American who saved 250,000 from death during the Armenian genocide
Photoshopping Labour Party Leader Ed Miliband has become a meme. This photo shows him on the naked body of the music star Prince.
Global Politics
Ed Miliband is the UK’s would-be leader and … a sex god?
Rafiqul Islam is president of a labor federation based next to the site of the Rana Plaza collapse. In the foreground is a field filled with rubble from the building, and beyond that is the site of the collapse.
Justice
Two years after it collapsed, Rana Plaza is still haunted by the smell of death
Citizens carrying a placard reading "Coward, Chicken, Yellow-Belly (top) and They, didn't hide. They they did not run (Bottom)" take part in a Hundreds of thousands of French citizens solidarity march (Marche Republicaine) in the streets of Paris January
Books
Finding the courage to write about cowardice
Armen Demircian says he's found a home at this recently restored Armenian Church in Diyarbakir, Turkey — though he's not a Christian.
Conflict
One man in Turkey struggles with his long-hidden Armenian identity
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Justice
These voices from the Rana Plaza collapse in Bangladesh are heart-wrenching