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Most Important Facebook Number: 140.3 Billion Facebook announced that it had a billion active accounts Thursday; an extraordinary milestone, celebrated with a rather odd ad. But that number, like that ad, is a sideshow. Another extraordinary stat got overlooked, and this is one that really gives you the scale of what the social…
With the US set to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, what does the future hold for the country’s capital?
Tolerated asylum seekers troubled in Germany photo: AP / Fabian Bimmer Hussain has spent seven years learning German. He speaks it quickly and confidently when among his friends at social gatherings in the busy Kreuzberg district of Berlin. He considers Germany home.But the authorities don’t want him here. Since fleeing from Pakistan to Germany…
Art by John Gara. How Pinterest Is Killing Feminism This isn’t where the internet was supposed to take us. Posted about a day ago One in five women over the age of 18 who regularly use the internet is on Pinterest, which had an estimated 23 million users users as of July. It also has an…
October 2nd, 2012 Why Syria turmoil threatens Middle East By Fareed Zakaria As Syria continues its descent into civil war, the terrible humanitarian tragedy occurring is unfolding in plain view: 20,000 dead, 250,000 refugees outside the country by some accounts, over a million people internally displaced. There seems no easy solution to end the crisis….
EGYPT Egyptian hospitals on strike: “The Muslim Brotherhood wants to maintain a stranglehold on healthcare” Medical students protesting in solidarity with hospital staff in Cairo. Photo posted on the movement’s Facebook page. On Monday morning, more than 500 public hospitals in Egypt began an unlimited national strike. The staff is calling for, among other things, a…
by Abigail Pesta ….August, 2012 Model and photographer Indrani spent her childhood in a 300-room palace in India. She turned that ancestral home into a school—and is fighting to give girls a better future. By Abigail Pesta. Indrani visits students at her ancestral palace turned school in India. She grew up in a crumbling ancestral…
Meaning of Jessica Ennis, the Face of the London Games By June Thomas Posted Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, Team GB’s Jessica Ennis shows off her gold medal. Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images for adidas. For all the excitement of Mo Farah’s Saturday night 10,000-meter triumph, and as impressive as it was to watch Bradley Wiggins…
Updated 2/4/2016 RUN OF HIS LIFE 02.02.16 8:00 PM ET ‘The People vs. O.J. Simpson’ Premiere: Big, Bold, and Shockingly Relevant The white Bronco. The bloody glove. It’s 1994 all over again. Yet FX’s new series proves the Trial of the Century is just as enthralling—and maybe more important—than ever. “Oh my god. We’re…