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Corporations’ tax avoidance cost African nations billions of dollars each year
African nations such as Zambia are often seen as grossly corrupt. Yet it is corporate tax “avoidance” on the part of mining companies that costs the nation hundreds of millions annually, while […]
The U.S. has ‘lost’ $18 billion of Iraqi oil money!
Osama al-Najai, the Iraqi parliament speaker, has told Al Jazeera that the amount of Iraqi money unaccounted for by the US is $18.7bn – three times more than the reported $6.6bn. Just […]
Teenager builds anti-terror nuke detecting device
Taylor Wilson built a functioning device that can detect nuclear weapons smuggled in cargo containers. He’s 17. It works via a nuclear fusion reactor that he also built. When he was 14. […]
Linda McCartney – Life in Photographs
In 1966, during a brief stint as a receptionist for Town and Country magazine, Linda Eastman snagged a press pass to a very exclusive promotional event for the Rolling Stones aboard a […]
A football revolution
Every tiny aspect of a football match can now be recorded and scrutinised. FT Weekend Magazine commissioned artist Giles Revell to create a series of images of the recent Champions League Final […]
Interview with Ozzy Osbourne
Sacked from Black Sabbath and battling addiction, Ozzy Osbourne’s career should have been dead and buried by 1979. Instead, he met an inspirational young guitarist called Randy Rhoads and took America by […]
The Devil In Miss Jones
Although she was named after January Wayne, the prototypical Seventies heroine of Jacqueline Susann’s Once Is Not Enough, January Jones projects the cool but complicated leading ladies (Deneuve!) of the Sixties: gorgeous but […]
Lou Reed Recording With Metallica
METALLICA.COM: “A few months ago our own Kirk Hammett hinted at a new Metallica project that’s “not really 100 percent a Metallica record.” While Kirk may have jumped the gun a […]
Monocle Top 25 Cities on Facebook
Monocle magazine just published their annual ‘Top 25 Best Liveable Cities’ index. The list is topped by Helsinki and fellow Nordic capital Copenhagen in the top three. Bongorama.com crosschecked all 25 cities […]
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