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Feature: Shock & Ore

Apple, Sony, Dell and Nokia are some of the biggest electronics brands in the world, but mass-producing their staggering array of constantly updated gadgets means they regularly need to get their hands on more metal than Ozzy Osbourne's got in his record collection.

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry

Blog: Russell Myrie -The Boot

Someone had to get the boot. Every scandal has a scapegoat and because this was some cross party effrey it was hard to tell who was going to get the boot when it began to hit the fan a couple of weekends ago.

Submitted by Russell.Myrie

Feature: Peru - Inca Heartland

Wednesday July 27th: The people, united, will never be defeated... Cusco, Inca heartland of Peru, is hot and high and alive to the sound of protestors today, as between the heavy beating of a hundred drums shattering off the Cathedral in Plaza de Armas come the voices of thousands of campesinos (country/working people) bringing the city to a...

Submitted by Ryan.Gunn

Young Blood: Would You Like Dog With Your Fries?

By day, Wangfujing Road, located at the heart of Beijing’s Dongcheng District, is home to a cosmopolitan crowd of high-flying professionals, tourists, students and bargain-hungry shoppers. So packed are the pavements of this historic limb of China’s capital, that you eventually tire of apologising for knocking someone over amid the...

Submitted by Bertan.Budak

Lemmer's Rogue Report - Insein

“The Name Says It All“, says Amnesty. It’s Burma’s Insein (pronounced Insane) Prison. It’s where over 2,100 of Burma’s political prisoners are being held. Disease such as tuberculosis, scabies and dysentery are rife, but with only three doctors for 10,000 prisoners it’s not surprising. Cells can be as...

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer

Stray Bullets - Gurkha Rights

Ayo Gorkhali: Thousands of Gurkha’s who have served with the British Army will be allowed to settle in England. Absolutely Fabulous actress Joanna Lumley, whose father served with the 6th Gurkha Rifles for 30 years, campaigned with numerous Gurkha rights groups to allow veteran Gurkhas, originally from Nepal, to settle in England.

Submitted by Richard.Lemmer

Postcards From The Edge: Egypt

Let me introduce myself. The name's Bede, I'm an adventurer in my early twenties, of mixed origin, from somewhere in north east London. I've been working a range of jobs, from office work and customer services, to coaching.

Submitted by b

Blog: Russell Myrie - Obama and Pakistan

All of the problems created by Bush and Pervez Musharraf directly after 9/11 are either going to be sorted out once and for all or ( let’s hope not), horribly compounded when President Obama meets Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai and Pakistan’s Asif Ali Zardari in Washington.

Submitted by Russell.Myrie