The 2014 World Cup is helping shine a spotlight on Brazil’s child prostitution crisis. CNN’s Shasta Darlington reports. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAttQ2MGQTY
World Cup highlights child prostitution crisis in Brazil
I case you are wondering where all the young people are…they are on WeChat!
Forget Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Young people are flocking to WeChat, KakaoTalk and LINE!
New Music: Jack White – High Ball Stepper
Jack White will release his new solo album Lazaretto on June 10th via his own Third Man Records and Columbia, and the former White Stripes frontman already has a blistering new cut […]
Happy Birthday, Rachmaninov!
Rachmaninov disliked calling this work a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments were equal. Because of this, it is often referred to as Sonata in G minor for Cello and […]
‘Women conductors? It’s not getting any better, only worse!’
Jorma Panula has been the most successful spotter and trainer of conductors for the past 30 years. His pupils include Esa-Pekka Salonen and at least 20 others who hold international posts. Panula, […]
Have you ever heard of Morocco’s ‘Mule Ladies’ ?
It was 9 a.m., and hundreds of Moroccan women, many of them older, were already at work, bent over and straining, trying to inch up the hill to the border post here. […]
Rare records: The New Year – My Bleeding Wound (1974)
This is a the b-side to a rare 7″ released by 360 Degrees Records in Ohio in 1974. The track was included in a compilation reviewed by The Queitus: Penultimate track ‘My […]
Libya has the least public debt in the world [interactive graphic]
The clock is ticking. Every second, it seems, someone in the world takes on more debt. The idea of a debt clock for an individual nation is familiar to anyone who has […]
Photo of the day
Kevin Magnussen in a McLaren Mercedes F1 car. Photo by Ong Chi Hang on Google+.
The Eiffel Tower celebrates 125 years
It’s an ironclad celebration of freedom: The Eiffel Tower is 125 years old. Christiane Amanpour has the story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnwNpEEXTqw
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