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Out of the Pens of Babes
Like other types of artists, most writers have been honing their craft, sometimes obsessively, since they were old enough to think. And, of course, the vast majority of kids, even those who grow up to...
View ArticleGunfire and Helicopters: Live Streaming from the Streets of Cairo
The National Coalition of Legitimacy, which is led by the Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters, has called for a “Friday of Rejection” demonstration, denouncing the coup and the mass arrests of its...
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A Divided Egypt Battles with Fireworks, Rocks, and Guns
The young man's face was covered in a flag made to serve as a bloody, makeshift shroud. His unconscious head bounced with the jog of the men who carried him. He was among hundreds hurt in Cairo on...
View ArticleIn Nasr City, a Demonstration Ends in Bloodshed
Near the Rabaa Al-Adawiya Mosque in Nasr City in Cairo, hundreds of supporters of the deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood party voiced their disbelief that the...
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'Britain Today Is a Twee Playpen': Adam Curtis and Massive Attack Discuss...
A shot from Massive Attack V Adam Curtis. This is a story about a BBC filmmaker and a trip-hop veteran who decided that the country needed to grow up. Adam Curtis and Robert Del Naja saw Britain in...
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How Can We Stop Ecstasy Killing People?
A "Green Rolex", the pills causing trouble in Belfast. This week, Belfast’s club scene has been rocked with rumours of links between pills and the “sudden and unexplained deaths” of eight people in...
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A Plane Crashed While Trying to Land at San Francisco Airport
Photo via Twitter User David Eun At 11:27 on Saturday morning, Asiana Airlines flight 214 coming out of Seoul, South Korea, crashed during its landing at San Francisco International Airport (SFO)....
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Swimming with Warlords
Nabi Gechi is a killer who doesn’t bother with subtleties. Two weeks ago the militia commander directed an attack against a house in Northern Afghanistan filled with Taliban. After his men surrounded...
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The Hangover News
Delayed Deportations ABU QATADA WAS DEPORTED FROM THE UK TO FACE TRIAL IN JORDAN The countries signed a treaty agreeing that evidence obtained through torture wouldn't be used against the cleric Abu...
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Jean-Luc Godard Has Finally Embraced 3D
Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that....
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No One Really Knows What the Canadian Military Is Doing in Haiti
Canadian infantry on a military exercise. (Image via) Perhaps understandably, the Canadian media has been having a hard time covering any news that isn't to do with one of the following: the mayor of...
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This Week in Racism: Johnny Depp Plays Native American in Movie, World Shrugs
Photo by Flickr User ATempltetonPhoto Welcome to a special post-Fourth of July edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist...
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Getting Life Advice from One of the World's Most Eloquent Pimps
Mickey Royal. (All photos courtesy of Mickey Royal) When I was 18, I liked to trawl through Facebook to try and find the strangest people I could. I guess it was my slightly creepy way of trying to...
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Are the Greek Government Willing to Make a Martyr Out of a Hunger-Striking...
Thousands participate in a solidarity motorcycle protest for Kostas Sakkas. Last Friday, around 1,200 people rode through Athens on motorcycles. They started their bike rally from the downtown area...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Portrait of a Russian Oligarch
After the collapse of Communism in Russia, as state assets were divvied up and privatised, a few individuals stepped in to take the reins of this entrepreneurial experiment. Rewarded with massive...
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Julian Assange Isn't WikiLeaks
With Julian Assange consigned to ambling between the sun bed and his speaking balcony at the Ecuadorian embassy, the fight for free information went a little quiet until Edward Snowden appeared to...
View ArticleWearable Tech Is Bringing the Fashion Industry to Silicon Valley
Wearable Tech Is Bringing the Fashion Industry to Silicon Valley
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The Man Flying His Plane to Every Country That Doesn't Recognise Kosovo's...
James Berisha in his plane. (All photos courtesy of James Berisha) James Berisha wants the world to accept Kosovo's independence. So, instead of circulating a bunch of pointless "Facebook awareness"...
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Question of the Day: What Do You Think of John Inverdale's Bartoli Comments?
So BBC presenter John Inverdale said that Wimbledon women's champion Marion Bartoli was "never going to be a looker". Because that's kind of insensitive and completely irrelevant, there have been 674...
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