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Saudi F-15
Conflict
Saudis made a $100 million US buy to upgrade its air force
"Out the Box," done for Red Bull's One Upon A Town project, Kachelhoffer, Western Cape, South Africa 2015.
Arts
Here are three African street artists you should know
George Orwell (tall, center) and his wife Eileen
Culture
Americans had a front-row seat to Spain’s 20th century civil war
Romayne Wheeler's Steinway & Sons grand piano was transported from the city of Guadalajara and now sits inside his home on the edge of a cliff in the Sierra Tarahumara.
Music
This Mexican canyon is alive with the sound of music
Rome's Pantheon is based on ancient concrete.
Development
There’s nothing abstract about this story. It’s strictly concrete.
China's President Xi Jinping
Media
China’s state news agency warns against April Fools’ — no joke
Sarah Parcak at archaeological site
Science
A Viking village in Canada, spotted from space
Election officials arrange ballots to count at a polling station after midterm elections in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, June 7, 2015
Global Politics
The Bloomberg team that uncovered the Latin American election hacker had no idea what it would find
Ann Corcoran speaks in the YouTube video she recorded for The Center for Security Policy, a controveral far right think tank founded by Frank Gaffney.
Conflict
How an environmental lobbyist became an influential anti-refugee blogger
Mohammed Shehada sorts a bag of pistachios, weeding out the American-grown nuts from what are supposed to be Iranian-grown ones. American pistachios are bigger and lighter in color, and the shells are slightly pointier.
Global Politics
Pistachios, a love story
One of the fleet of golden supercars that has obsessed London's media this week.
Culture
How London became obsessed with the golden supercars of a Saudi billionaire