Project Jacmel

Audio blog: Faith amid the ruins

An impromptu church service and steel drums in the park draw hundreds of faithful

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The FOSJ Art Centre, a non-profit art centre and school in Jacmel, Haiti, was hit hard by the quake but has some random pieces of art left inside. Its director, Flo McGarrell, was killed.
Project Jacmel

Another casualty of Haiti quake: art

Jacmel's renowned arts community took a number of hits, including the death of its champion

Pietro Masturzo, an Italian freelance photographer, has won the World Press Photo of the Year 2009 award with this picture of women shouting in protest from a rooftop in Tehran
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World Press Pictures of the Year

See the 2009 pictures of the year, including the winning shot that captured the spirit of protest in Iran

Two employees of a downtown cafe in Nashville, Tennessee, formed a human barricade, November 25, 1962, to keep black sit-in demonstrators from entering. Shortly before the action shown above, the owner, Herschel Erwin, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for squirting a fire extinguisher at the demonstrators.
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Racial change was slow in coming – until Nashville

How the South has changed - and how it hasn’t - since the lunch counter protests 50 years ago

Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, left, and President Robert Mugabe
Geoffrey York

Zimbabwe: A nation with little to celebrate

On the anniversary of historic coalition deal between reformists and Mugabe, few of the changes it promised have come through

The aftermath of a crash between two passenger trains, which collided head on, on February 15, 2010 in Halle, Belgium.

At least 18 dead in Belgian commuter train crash

Two trains collide during morning rush hour in the Brussels suburb of Buizingen

University shooting takes new turn with pipe-bomb allegation

Questions raised on Amy Bishop's hiring despite a dispute with a former boss who received a pipe bomb and the shooting death of her brother

Afghanistan

NATO's novel battle tactic spawns opposite effects

In Maraj, where residents stayed put, 12 people die as rocket goes astray; in Nad Ali, everyone left town

Pope holds summit on sex-abuse scandal with Irish bishops

Irish bishops hold two-day meeting with pope on scandal, part of a ‘journey of repentance, reconciliation and renewal' for the Irish Church

Ontario hockey team unhurt after U.S. arena roof collapses

If not for a missed shot on goal, the seven-year-olds would have been battling it out in overtime at a Pennsylvania tournament when the roof caved in

Vancouver 2010

Georgian town mourns favourite son

Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, had called his father from Vancouver to say that he was terribly afraid of one corner of the track, a final, high-speed bend that banked high and lacked protection

Eleven Europeans sought by Dubai in Hamas leader's death

Police seek ‘masterminds' in the alleged assassination of a senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Mabhouh at a Dubai hotel last month

5 Australian men sentenced to long prison terms in terror plot

Judge says he had little hope that the men could be rehabilitated, saying they were motivated by ‘intolerant, inflexible religious conviction'

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