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Another side to Mogadishu

The Somali capital, Mogadishu, has the unenviable reputation of being one of the most dangerous and destroyed cities on earth. But an exhibition that has opened in London hopes to show that the city has a rich architectural history, some of which has survived the shooting and the shelling...
Jul 12,2015

Pompeii under threat

The government of Italy has called for an emergency meeting to discuss how to save the ancient Roman city of Pompeii from further ruin. It comes after new damage this weekend at the site...
Jul 12,2015

Obama's youth initiative

President Obama has launched an initiative called "My Brother's Keeper" to help young, minority men in the United States. He said that these young men consistently do worse in society and urged stronger efforts to create more opportunities for them...
Jul 12,2015

Oldest Holocaust survivor dies

The woman thought to be the oldest survivor of the Nazi holocaust has died in London at the age of 110. Alice Herz-Sommer was born into a Jewish family in Prague and spent two years in the Nazi camp at Terezin, or Theresienstadt, located in what is now the Czech Republic...
Jul 12,2015

Facebook allows gender choices

American users on the social network Facebook can now choose a variety of different terms to define their gender other than just male or female. The company said it wanted its users to feel comfortable being their true selves...
Jul 12,2015

Hollande visits US

President François Hollande will be hoping his trip to the US improves his popularity at home in France where there are doubts he can help the economy recover. It is the first state visit to the US by a French head of state since 1996...
Jul 12,2015

Man survives 16 months at sea

It could be story from a Hollywood movie: a man alone at sea for more than a year, killing animals to stay alive. That's what Jose Salvador Albarengo from Mexico says happened to him when he was trying to sail to El Salvador...
Jul 12,2015

Mafia plot: Tower of Pisa

The Mafia planned to blow up the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa, according to a former member of the Italian criminal organisation who is on trial in Sicily. Back in the early 1990s the gangsters carried out a series of deadly bombings in a war with the authorities, who were trying to break their..
Jul 12,2015

Obama tries to repair relations with Germany

President Obama has taken the unusual step of broadcasting on one of the main German television channels to try to repair the damage to the trans-Atlantic relationship from the spying revelations. Both the European Commission and Chancellor Merkel welcomed aspects of it without showing any great enth..
Jul 12,2015

Philippines online child abuse arrests

Police in Britain say they've broken up an international crime group that organised the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines live over the internet. So far 29 people have been arrested around the world and 17 people in Britain. In one case, a British man was found to have directed the abuse vi..
Jul 12,2015