Magnum photographer Rene Burri dies aged 81瑞士摄影师勒内·布里去世：He took pictures of the likes of Che Guevara and Pablo Picasso for the Magnum agency马格南图片社. In 1963 he shot his famous picture of a cigar-chomping Che, seemingly pausing for thought during an interview 1020展开全文
Giulio Andreotti dies:Giulio Andreotti, who served seven times as Christian Democrat prime minister, has died aged 94. Mr Andreotti entered the Italian parliament in 1946 and remained there for more than 60 years, before seeing out his days as a senator-for-life展开全文 原微博
Glimpse of history 历史一瞥:Those speeches written but never given.What if John F Kennedy had returned home safely from Dallas on 22 November, 1963? Would Congress have passed the Civil Rights Bill? World freedom was to have been the theme of a John F Kennedy speech in Dallas展开全文 原微博
Road to 1984(通往1984之路):How George Orwell came to invent Big Brother. 1984: George Orwell's road to dystopia(敌托邦). Tells story of Winston Smith, a low-level bureaucrat living in Airstrip One (Britain) in 1984, under totalitarian rule of the Party and its emblem, Big Brother展开全文
Strange Fruit奇异果:And 19 more of your songs that changed the world. Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit (1939). There's racism in the world. This song made it completely unable to be ignored. A brutal awaking to what was still transpiring in southern US long after the emancipation.展开全文 原微博
No pain, no gain(不痛就无效):Inside the world of competitive yoga. Hell-bent: Transcending pain in competitive yoga. Benjamin Lorr began attending super-heated Bikram yoga classes. It was the beginning of a sweaty two-year journey which he documented in his book "Hell-Bent"展开全文 原微博
Toilet trouble(厕所问题):How can India stop people urinating in public(在公共场所撒尿)? In the state of Rajasthan last month volunteers began shaming offenders by drumming and blowing whistles. But some argue the country also needs more, and better, public toilets展开全文 原微博
Porn in the USA:How easy is it for adult movie stars to go mainstream? Talented or tainted:The Canyons, a low-budget indie production, has raised eyebrows.The choice of male lead has caused something of a stir. The role has gone to James Deen, a well-known adult star展开全文 原微博
Bare-faced cheek: Is public nudity a form of free speech? Is public nudity a form of free speech?Civil liberties campaigners are preparing to legally fight San Francisco's ban on public nudity. Does the US Constitution guarantee the right to walk the streets naked?展开全文 原微博
Baby blues:Should parents indoctrinate their children in musical taste? Should parents try to shape their children's taste in music? Or does it have the effect of driving children to rebel?展开全文 原微博
Unreal deal:Buying peppers and onions with Yasser Arafat II. Eight years after Yasser Arafat died, he still remains a towering figure in Palestinian society. And he hasn't completely disappeared. Salem Smeirat is the West Bank's most impressive Yasser Arafat lookalike展开全文
Mandarin soup:The man who tried to fix China's civil service - 1,000 years ago.Wang Anshi: The reformer beaten by the mandarins.In Chinese society, civil servants don't always have the best of reputations - they're often regarded as self-serving and corrupt展开全文
Andy Williams dies aged 84:He was best known for the song Moon River, the Oscar-winning song featured in the film Breakfast at Tiffany's. In 1962, he started The Andy Williams Show.His easy style and mellow voice led President Reagan to call him "a national treasure"展开全文 原微博
Stasi files: The world's biggest jigsaw puzzle. You might think the Stasi had been consigned to history. But a new generation wants to know what the East German secret police did to their parents, and computing wizardry is about to make it easier to find out展开全文
Ice pick killing:Trotsky's grandson recalls Mexico assassination.It's 85 years since Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party and exiled. He was hunted down in Mexico City by Stalinist assassins, as his grandson, who was living with him when he died, now recalls展开全文
What is a goth? Originated in the UK in the 1980s. The look is distinctive: heavy use of eyeliner with an aesthetic that draws upon Victorian, medieval and pagan influences and dark, moody colours. Goth subcultures include cyber goths, with hair extensions and bright leggings展开全文
Textile masseur, anyone? Twenty-five inflated job titles.Readers share their most important-sounding, obscure and sometimes downright bizarre titles. I was a textile masseur(男按摩师) in the Royal Navy=I scrubbed decks. A binman(清洁工)=an environmental maintenance officer展开全文
Not so Great 4:The influence of Greek language & culture has helped establish a narrative in the West that Alexander's invasion was the first of many Western crusades to bring civilisation and culture to the barbaric East.But Persia was the greatest empire the world had yet seen展开全文
Not so Great 2:Any visitor of the spectacular ruins of Persepolis - the site of the ceremonial capital of the ancient Persian Achaemenid empire, will be told three facts: it was built by Darius the Great, embellished by his son Xerxes, and destroyed by Alexander the Great展开全文 原微博
