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50 years of Notting Hill carnival
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'Aftermath was creative death'
Writer Rachel Cusk talks about the hostile reaction to her 2012 account of the breakdown of her marriage -
Jihad in a social media age
Video of James Foley's murder by a Briton appalled the world. The use of social media to further the aims of Isis is now a major security issue -
Migrants risk their lives on 'the Beast'
A crackdown in Mexico is making life hard for Central American people trying to flee poverty and violence via rail to the US -
Who really killed Pier Paolo Pasolini?
A biopic by Abel Ferrara at the Venice biennale will reconstruct the last hours of the Italian film director, who was murdered in 1975 -
Foreign fighters' WWI stories
David Olusoga: we should recognise the role of non-European troops in the First World War
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