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We put the Persian version of this piece of news on this blog to emphasise its importance. It is about one particular journalist, Massoud Bastani whose only crime was reporting. He was detained in July 2009. He went to the...

Ouagadougou – now there’s a capital city you don’t hear much about. It’s a name which you’d be expected to know in a pub quiz – “name the capital of Burkina Faso…!” Well, now you’ve read this, you’ll have the answer. But if you really...

The Millennium Development Goals , to be achieved by 2015 which is now only 5 years away, include this one: Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases. Malaria can be controlled with technology as simple as bed nets to keep...

I was unlucky enough to have a summer job when I was around 19 that involved rebuilding part of a sewage works. It wasn’t my worst-ever summer job – that was the meat pie factory – but it wasn’t a barrel of laughs either. While I did...