Welcome to Bangui the capital of the Central African Republic, for the past two years the country has been torn apart by a violent religious conflict that has seen the Muslim Séléka and Christian Anti-balaka militias pitted against each other. The Séléka is a coalition of predominantly Muslim armed groups from the North-East who seized power back in March of 2013, they committed mass atrocities ag
This Saturday on December 12th Conor McGregor faces the current Featherweight champion Jose Aldo in an attempt to unify his interim Featherweight title which he earned fighting Chad Mendes back in July at UFC 18, he was originally scheduled to fight Aldo who unfortunately was forced to pull out due to injury.Jose Aldo hasn't lost a fight in over ten years and is currently considered the best p
In modern-day Russia it is estimated that just a mere 1% of the LGBT population live their lives completely open in regards to their sexuality. A recent anti-gay amendment to the "propaganda" law seems to have triggered an ever increasing number of assaults on the gay community, both men and women seem to be getting beaten up by vigilantes, who for the most part are going unpunished for their crim
For most of our history, horseback was as fast as any human could hope to travel but then came along the industrial revolution which saw the birth of steam powered and internal combustion engines. Cars transformed our world they made travel easier, more accessible and faster than ever before.This speed however also brought danger with it and for more than 60 years Horizon and the BBC have report
In Thailand getting up close to jungle animals is one of the most popular attractions on the tourist trail, wether it's riding an elephant, petting a tiger or feeding a monkey, you can do it all in Thailand. But in the rush to meet tourist demand and make profits, animals are often mistreated and neglected. In this episode of East 101 by Al Jazeera, Drew Ambrose heads to Thailand in order to find
This is the tale of the biggest car crash in all of the automotive history, the story of how a modern day Machiavelli spend 85 million pounds of tax payers money in pursuit of his dream to build a stainless steel sports car. Over a quarter of a century ago, the only sports car ever built in Ireland ceased production, the car itself was as controversial as it was nonconventional, gull wing doors,
Harold Adrian Russell Philby, better known to the world as Kim, was an Englishman who spied for the Soviet Union. Philby was a high-ranking member of British intelligence but who decided to operate as a double agent, that was until he defected to the Soviet Union in 1963. It was around this time that it was revealed that Philby was in fact a member of the spy ring now known as the Cambridge Five.
RT (Russia Today) recently released this film which shines a light on one of the more controversial issues faced by some parents in living in the United Kingdom today and thats forced adoption. The UK is one of only two European countries that allows for the state to force a child into adoption without the consent of a child's biological parents. Some families have had no other choice but to leave
March 2014, an airliner with 239 passengers and crew on board simply vanishes off the face of the earth without a trace and a year later it is even more certain that it was a unique event, in the sense that we have never seen anything like it before since the invention of flight. A year on and the agony for the families of those that where on board still goes on, with no bodies there can be no bur