The battle lines are drawn. On the one hand, the First World War was a necessary struggle and Britain had no alternative but to play its part: on the other, the war was a tragic mess that came about by mistake, and we should have stayed out. Bungling statesmen got us into it, and bungling generals made sure it would be a four-year nightmare of futile slaughter.
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TOMS – shoes best known for its simple cloth slippers and instantly graspable giving model, “One for One” — for every pair of shoes it sells, Toms gives a pair to a needy child — the company has attracted over 2 million followers on social media.
On 24th February 2014 Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni signed into law the Anti-Homosexuality Bill which criminalises homosexuality and same-sex marriage. Apart from imposing life sentence imprisonment for offenders, the new law prescribes prison sentences of five to seven years for the “promotion” of, “attempts to commit”, “aiding and abetting” and “conspiracy to engage in” homosexuality.
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President Obama ribbed the press a little more than usual at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday.
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http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/president-obama-ribs-press-at-correspondents-dinner/
MUMBAI: At least 15 passengers were killed and 87 injured when four bogies of the Diva-Sawantwadi passenger train derailed in Maharashtra on the Konkan Railway route on Sunday.
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Ukraine’s interim Prime Minister has said the country’s security forces are to blame for the deaths of over 40 people in Odessa – the vast majority pro-Russian protesters – as they failed to maintain order in the southern city.
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When many of us have a little cash to invest, we might buy a mutual fund or a stock — if we don’t blow it on the latest tech gadget. Not the truly wealthy, however. They often put their money in property, art, businesses and other investments that the rest of us can only dream of owning. How this rarified group uses their cash differentiates them from the rest of us — and keeps them in the black.
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http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20140501-how-the-rich-stay-rich
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Antibiotic resistance – when bacteria change so antibiotics no longer work in people who need them to treat infections – is now a major threat to public health, says a new United Nations report released today.
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http://allafrica.com/view/group/main/main/id/00030281.html?aa_source=ri-headline
A century ago, the people of Chin State, in the Burmese mountains, were fearsome hunters, known to decorate their huts with the heads of their enemies. Then, Baptist missionaries turned them into Christians – and they’ve lived, ever since, in towns straight out of the US frontier, marooned in a largely Buddhist land.
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