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Tears. Shock. Joy. Why viral Alabama boat brawl matters
Getty Images By Brandon Drenon BBC News, Washington A violent brawl erupted on a boating dock in Montgomery on Saturday. And America hasn’t stopped talking about it since. In the days after, dozens of video recordings circulated on social media, showing fists flying, a chair being slammed onto someone’s head, and a man swimming toward…
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Staged videos fuel religious hate and misogyny in India
Twitter By Akhil Ranjan BBC Global Disinformation Team In a video shared and watched by millions of people in India, a man is seen attacking a person who is wearing a black burka and holding a child. He then forcibly removes the burka to reveal a man. The message accompanying the clip warns in Hindi…
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Hip-hop at 50: How beats and bars spread from the Bronx around the world
David Corio/Getty By Paul Glynn Entertainment reporter On this day in 1973, at a party in an apartment in the Bronx, New York, hip-hop was born. Using two turntables and a microphone, Jamaican-born funk and soul DJ Kool Herc mixed two records together – isolating and extending the kick drum beats or “breaks” – while…
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The lifelong effects of ‘the favourite child’
Most parents won’t admit it, but a surprising number have a ‘hidden favourite’ and the way they treat that child compared to their siblings can have long-lasting impacts on their mental health as adults and on family relationships. My siblings and I always knew when our middle brother was coming to visit my parents: my…
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Period poverty: In Africa, women are being priced out of buying sanitary ware
Toko Masemola/Change.org By Esther Ogola, Gem O’Reilly & Favour Nunoo BBC News, Nairobi, London & Accra Women on the minimum wage in Ghana have to spend one in every seven dollars they earn on sanitary pads, research by the BBC has found. The BBC surveyed nine countries around Africa to see how affordable period products…
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Africa’s week in pictures: 4
A selection of the best photos from the African continent and beyond. Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency Matt McNulty/Getty Images Fadel Senna/Getty Fadel Senna/Getty Dario Belingheri/Getty Mohamed Abd El Ghany/ Reuters Jamie Squire/Getty – Marcelo Endelli/Getty EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Gerald Anderson/Anadolu Agency Images subject to copyright Related Topics Photography Africa Around the BBC Africa Today podcasts…
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Hip-hop 50: The party that started hip-hop
It is 50 years since DJ Kool Herc’s ‘back to school jam’ in New York’s West Bronx kick-started a movement and birthed a whole culture, writes Rebecca Laurence. On a hot August night in 1973, Clive Campbell, known as DJ Kool Herc, and his sister Cindy put on a “back-to-school jam” in the recreation room…
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Why it matters where your data is stored
Getty Images By Sean McManus Technology of Business reporter Mattias Åström glances out of the office window in France. “Look at all the beautiful roads and bridges here,” says the founder and chief executive of Evroc. “You can see what we built hundreds of years ago. Now, we’re letting foreign companies build our critical infrastructure.”…
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Former Miss Hawaii: ‘We’re in shock and mourning’
The former beauty queen, and current meteorologist, Malika Dudley, was one of thousands forced to evacuate, leaving her home because of the wildfires. Speaking to the BBC, she described the trauma Maui residents are facing after the deadly fires. “People were running for their lives – literally,” she said.
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Savour Melbourne’s best coffee spots with coffee expert Jane Ormond
From Pellegrini’s Espresso Bar to Patricia Coffee Brewers to Clement, here are eight of the best cafes to get your caffeine fix in Australia’s capital of coffee. Melbourne regularly hits the “world’s best coffee cities” lists, and once you start exploring the nooks and crannies of its laneways and inner-city suburbs, you’ll see why. It’s…