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Titanic letter sells for £119,000

The last letter to be written on the ill-fated Titanic has sold for £119,000 at auction.It was written by survivors Esther Hart and her young daughter hours before the ship hit an iceberg and sank in 1912...
Jul 12,2015

Beginning of the end for Japanese whaling?

Three Japanese ships have returned home at the end of the annual hunt for whales in the Southern Ocean. Japan has said they will not set sail again next year, after the International Court of Justice said the hunt was illegal...
Jul 12,2015

US created 'Cuban Twitter'

The US created a text message social network designed to cause unrest in Cuba, according to an investigation by the Associated Press news agency. ZunZuneo, called the 'Cuban Twitter', had over 40,000 users in a country with limited access to the internet. The project is thought to have lasted from 20..
Jul 12,2015

Twitter 'blocked' in Turkey

Twitter users in Turkey report that the social media site has been blocked in the country.This comes after Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan attacked the site on Thursday...
Jul 12,2015

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