Athletics’ reputation could be about to plumb the same depths as cycling.
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The world of sport has been rocked by the explosive allegations that surfaced over the weekend.
Juan Melendez – one of 150 innocent people who have been released from death row.
Witness to Innocence
More than 150 people have been released from death rows around the US after having their wrongful convictions overturned. Most continue to face social stigma and unemployment.
A tiny part of a much bigger picture.
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Look at the numbers and the ‘invasion rhetoric’ is unwarranted.
EPA/Yoan Valat
As the Calais crisis unfolds, social media is becoming an echo chamber for the preferences of the UK’s powerful right wing.
Beijing celebrates being selected as hosts of the 2022 Winter Olympics.
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Whatever hoo ha about human rights and corruption gets attached to the Chinese Winter Olympics victory, it won’t be allowed to detract from the event itself.
Executions are rare in India, but debate over the death penalty is intense.
EPA/Farooq Khan
Why do so many people support capital punishment?
Indians protest against the execution of Jakub Memon.
EPA/Harish Tyagi
India has only hanged four criminals since 2003. But given the state is founded on principles of non-violence, it’s surprising they executed any of them.
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What are the arguments for and against the death penalty and do they stand up to examination?
Careful now.
EPA/Rolex Dela Pena
What has Beijing gotten itself into?
Burmese Buddhist monks protest against an influx of Rohingya migrants by boat.
EPA/Nyunt Win
With parliamentary elections looming, the ethnic hatred let loose by Burma’s transition to democracy are running out of control.
Sign on the dotted line.
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A woman left out of her mother’s will has won £164,000 in the courts but that doesn’t mean you need to rewrite yours.
Not a good look.
EPA/Andy Rain
The circumstances may be unique, but the disgraced peer is part of a wider problem.
The growing migrant camp known as the “New Jungle”.
Thom Davies
While politicians talk security, a humanitarian crisis is unfolding on the French coast.
Every time and MP coughs, a gargoyle dies.
Graeme Maclean
Some wild ideas have been put forward for the UK’s seat of power over the years.
An anti-government protest underway in Istanbul.
EPA/Ulas Yunus Tosun
Whatever the pretext, Turkey’s latest push against the Kurds will do nobody any favours.
We shall, we shall not be moved.
UK Parliament
The Lords has a long history of scandal and this won’t be the last.
A man on the edge.
EPA/SANA
Assad is running out of options – and he seems to be admitting it for the first time.
New York Magazine
The world is full of bad responses to sexual assault allegations. Here’s how to do it right.
Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko with Barack Obama in 2014.
EPA/Jacek Turczyk
Washington would do well to leave the Cold War rhetoric in the past.
What the world is waiting for?
Hannahmariah
Since science made it possible to research manipulating the cells that are linked to reproduction, the naysayers have carried the day. But how solid are their objections really?
She branded me with science.
Cory Doctorow
Scarification is becoming a popular alternative to tattooing — but there is one big difference.
Turkish troops patrol the Syrian border as airstrikes begin.
EPA/Deniz Toprak
After months of pressure, the coalition against IS has a new team member. But what are its real motives?
Melissa Butcher
Global cities must guarantee women safe access to public space. But in cities like New Delhi, this access is conditional and bound by moral discourse.
No villain.
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When it comes to Europe, Germany can’t win either way.
If you thought you had the political wiles of Caledonia covered, this’ll be well worth a look
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Haggis and Irn Bru have long since been usurped by politics as the greatest Scottish peculiarity. Here’s a bunch of nuggets on that subject that are all too often overlooked.