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Next time you go to the disco don’t get caught out in the cold. Show your friends that you know what it takes to be real hot. Pep yourself up and do your passinho routine. Hailing from the slums of Rio de Janeiro, this pyrotechnic new hop is fast becoming a global hit, going viral [...]

Something has changed in the world. Something fundamental, if names actually mean anything. As of the start of this month, Internet browsers find the name “Palestine” when they google anything related to what has long been known as the Palestinian Territories. This is in line with “the lead of the U.N.,” Google’s managers point out. [...]

The web is in. The TV and the printed press are out. Shaken by the meteoric rise of a protest movement suddenly turned into a major political force, and mired in the squabble for power among parties with equal shares of the electorate, Italy has become the showcase of a singular socio-political phenomenon, which is [...]

These are the first images from North Korea since war has threatened to break out. While no live rounds have yet been exchanged across the Demilitarized Zone running along the 38th parallel, North and South Korea have formally returned to warring terms after Pyongyang invalidated the armistice treaty and cut the phone hotline between the [...]

Quick: what do ping-pong, baseball and basketball have in common? Of course they are all sports, but the point is: they are sports used at crucial times in contemporary history for major US diplomatic offensives. It was after some ping-pong matches – until then unheard of – that in the early 1970s the American administration [...]

Information, it is said, is the currency of knowledge. If this is true, the flood of data available today through the Internet can certainly be labelled as information inflation. Every cyberspace surfer and new media user – exposed daily to a data overload – should be familiar with the phenomenon. Looking for and finding accurate [...]

On the face of it, things are changing in Myanmar. And were change to be gauged by the unprecedented level of freedom enjoyed by the press, the new course on which the South East Asian nation has embarked would seem to be real, although still fraught with uncertainties and dangers. A report released last week [...]

Hop and shake. Leap and quake. Wave your fists. Cross your wrists. And wag. And wiggle. And… He does it, she does it, we all do it… gangnam style. Oppa, gangnam style. Oppa, oppa. Gangnam style! Easy and cool, guileless to the extent of being predictable, available and expendable, the South Korean pop hit Gangnam [...]