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- Belief in black magic persists in Papua New Guinea http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/its-2013-and-theyre-burning-witches/558/ 87 comments
- Cheeky - It's Australian for Artificial Intelligence http://www.theglobalmail.org/mobile/feature/cheeky-its-australian-for-artificial-intelligence/287/ 31 comments
- NASA to link Etherum blockchain technology with their deep space network https://www.theglobalmail.org/cryptocurrency-blockchain-space-nasa/ 47 comments ethereum
- New Australian government has begun rounding up pregnant asylum seekers and sending them offshore to Nauru http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/redefining-confinement/715/ 3 comments worldnews
- What Happens When Half The World Stops Making Babies http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/what-happens-when-half-the-world-stops-making-babies/573/ 190 comments worldnews
- The Global Economy Is A Giant Ponzi Scheme (and we're all in on it) http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-global-economy-is-a-giant-ponzi-scheme/575/ 6 comments worldnews
- 'The humans were delicious, especially their brains. But this was just a perk. It was a final act of love by the grief-stricken.' An incredible medical detective story, 50 years in the telling. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-last-laughing-death/470/ 5 comments worldnews
- Rupert Murdoch, "a tottering, cowardly supplicant and a prime candidate for criminal prosecution" http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-new-new-black/457/ 30 comments worldnews
- The Clash Within Civilisations: How The Sunni-Shiite Divide Cleaves The Middle East - An undeclared war within Islam is at play in Syria, as popular uprisings get entangled in old religious disputes across the region. In the remaking of the Middle East, it's not just geopolitical, it's religious http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-clash-within-civilisations-how-the-sunni-shiite-divide-cleaves-the-middle-east/349/ 5 comments worldevents
- Shoot the humans to save the tigers? Does saving India's tigers mean compromising human rights? http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/save-the-tigers-shoot-the-humans/348/ 4 comments worldnews
- How Women Are Leading Taliban Sons And Fathers To Peace http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/how-women-are-leading-taliban-sons-and-fathers-to-peace/340/ 3 comments worldnews
- Share And Share, But Not Alike: Dual-class share structures allow some CEOs to take the money and run — run the company, that is, according to their own vision http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/share-and-share-but-not-alike/305/ 8 comments business
- The Revolution Will Be Politicised: Egypt's young secular revolutionaries playing the long game. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-revolution-will-be-politicised/262/ 17 comments worldnews
- How Google avoids taxes: The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/google-dont-be-evil-dont-pay-tax/261/ 12 comments worldnews
- Pyongyang appears to be booming. Just why this is happening, no one can fully explain. This is North Korea, after all, where economic data are treated as state secrets. But there are fairly well educated guesses being tossed around. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/tiramisu-time-in-pyongyang/88/ 21 comments worldevents
- Saudis are protesting. They've been protesting for over a year. Their numbers are growing. And there's no sign of them stopping. http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/the-growing-rebellion-in-saudi-arabia/84/ 11 comments worldevents
- Star-Spangled Canberra --- Essay on Americanisation of Australian politics. Change has accelerated recently "especially in regard to the quality and rancour of public debate". Now ultra-partisan with high, and rising, levels of public disaffection http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/star-spangled-canberra/76/ 19 comments worldnews
- Room For Everyone At The Hague --- Fourteen years after its inception, and almost $1bn later, the International Criminal Court has yet to complete a case. It's had more judges than defendants. And some of those judges have had no formal legal qualifications http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/room-for-everyone-at-the-hague/42/ 27 comments worldnews