A boy plays next to a football centre in Cape Town’s Khayelitsha township.
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Tokyo Sexwale, one of the candidates for football’s top job, has pledged to end what has been called ‘football’s slave trade’.
We need to talk about booze.
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When most of us are asked to imagine an alcoholic and they probably think of a middle-aged straight man. But new research highlights the risks of heavy drinking on the gay scene.
Winston Churchill: a titan of oratory.
Political speeches can teach us a great deal about how to win over an audience – and we can all apply the simple lessons.
Seriously? This guy?
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The Mafia’s reported promise of protection from Islamic State might seem like an offer you can’t refuse. Wrong.
Not everyone looks forward to Christmas.
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A new survey of people living estranged from a parent, sibling or adult child has found many feel judged or blamed for their family breakdown.
Speaking out.
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In the 1990s, thousands of people in Peru were sterilised without their consent – but finally they now have a way to tell the world.
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Perhaps the “art” label designates Assemble and the Granby project as outsiders, unique, creating something that can’t be replicated.
Wants to make Czech Rep great again, thinks xenophobia is the perfect way to do it.
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He’s been a prime minister and a president but he’s best-known now for his xenophobic interventions.
Jokowi: scourge of corruption?
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A dynamic new president promised Indonesians sweeping reform of a rotten system. Instead, all they’ve gotten are baby steps.
Cutting all links between a child and its family should be the very last option.
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England has far more forced adoptions than elsewhere in Europe. Is this right?
Who is entering the care system?
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Examining the data on whether the number of children in care at some point in their childhood has gone up.
Klansmen in Birth of a Nation.
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100 years ago, America’s infamous racist group staged a near-takeover of the nation’s film and media industries. Here’s how they did it.
Arsene Wenger: anti-doping, but is he right that it automatically improves group performance?
Ronnie Macdonald
Most of us would think that what’s good for one is good for the team, but is this really the case?
Algerians know that Abdelaziz Bouteflika can’t go on forever.
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The “deep state” has been a problem in Algeria for decades, but at last it’s being turfed out. Or is it?
A voter displays her ink-stained finger after casting her ballot in Caracas.
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Following a dramatic election loss, the government now has to deal with an overwhelmingly centrist parliament.
Taking it in her stride.
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The far-right Front National leads after the first round of voting, leaving Hollande and Sarkozy with some thinking to do.
Boxer Tyson Fury is far from a champion when it comes to is attitudes towards gender and sexuality.
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The boxer’s recent remarks represent everything that is wrong with attitudes towards gender and sexuality in professional sport.
Bringing the hammer down. How the legal system fails the world’s most vulnerable people.
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The British legal system is skewing the odds against some of the most vulnerable refugees.
China: getting busier.
Sherman Wang
China’s population policy shift has some worried – and at the heart of it is a philosophical dilemma.
On the march.
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Latin America’s most important state could never succumb to another military coup. Could it?
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Angela Merkel is entering her first proper war by joining the campaign against Islamic State.
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Research shows that the UK’s defence budget remains one of the highest kin the world. Not that you would read that in the press.
Mike Ullett and Gino Meriano enter one of the UK’s first civil partnerships, 2005.
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Should opposite-sex couples be allowed to enter civil partnerships? Many same-sex couples already in one think so.
The heroes of the Iliad … or the Labour front bench?
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The House of Commons’ remarkable debate over air strikes really was a spectacle of heroic proportions.
Jim McMahon ran a local campaign.in Oldham.
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Labour candidate Jim McMahon wins with a comfortable majority – without really mentioning his party leader at all.