5 July 2014 Last updated at 08:44
Country's foreign minister says the side's success is showing people that 'Belgians can achieve great things together'
I began by photographing friends who live in my street. One day they saw me carrying a camera, so they called me and asked: “Can you take a picture of us?”
Ukraine crisis: Separatists deny fleeing Sloviansk base
Pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine have denied reports they have fled their stronghold of Sloviansk.
Ukraine's interior minister said a large number of rebels had left but admitted other fighters remained.
Ukrainian forces launched an offensive against the separatists this week after a 10-day ceasefire broke down.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has said he is ready to return to a ceasefire but there has been no confirmation of any new talks.
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Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said on Facebook that a large number of insurgents had left Sloviansk but that other fighters were still in the town.
Belgium's citizens put differences aside to cheer on World Cup team
Country's foreign minister says the side's success is showing people that 'Belgians can achieve great things together'
It is perhaps western Europe's most divided nation, a country so riven that it once took 541 days to form a government.
But for the past three weeks Belgium has had a very different feel. Three weeks of cheering their World Cup heroes, waving flags and chugging beers together have shown querulous French and Flemish speakers that perhaps they can live together after all. Years of sniping between the country's fractious communities seem forgotten in the euphoria of the football as Belgians reveal a character trait unseen for a generation: belief in themselves.
That is certainly the impression in Good Kompany, the bar on Brussels' Grand Place owned by the Belgian captain Vincent Kompany, which has been heaving with crowds on Belgium's match nights. "It has been incredible. It really has brought the country together," says Jesse de Peter, Good Kompany's general manager. "In here, the fans chant alternately in French and Flemish, which is almost unheard of."
NSA whistleblowers' testimony electrifies Bundestag committee
Berlin Letter: Spy scandals have returned a Cold War atmosphere to the German capital
Derek Scally
Nostalgia is not what it used to be, but espionage fans can rejoice that Berlin is once again bristling with spy scandals just as it was in the Cold War era.
At the centre of it all is Germany’s federal foreign intelligence service, theBundesnachrichtendienst or BND. After decades in a leafy suburb of Munich, the agency is in the process of moving its secretive operations – and 4,000 staff – to a new bunker-like headquarters in the heart of Berlin.
It’s been a bumpy journey: building work on the sprawling 260,000sq m site began in 2006, with a budget of €720 million. With the job almost complete the price tag has quietly crept beyond €1 billion, largely because someone, probably a foreign intelligence service, made off with the building blueprints.
Two officers sentenced to life for the death of Argentine Bishop Angelelli
Two former senior military officers have been sentenced to life in prison for the death of Argentine Bishop Enrique Angelelli. The bishop was killed shortly after the military seized power in 1976.
Former army chief Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 86, and former air force base commander, Luis Fernando Estrella, 82 were sentenced on Friday by a La Rioja court to life imprisonment for the death of Roman Catholic Bishop Enrique Angelelli.
Details of the ruling are to be released in September.
Angelelli was a left-leaning bishop in a generally conservative religious establishment and had advocated for the human rights of the politically persecuted during the dictatorship. Angelelli was killed in August 1976 in what authorities at the time called an automobile accident.
His death came shortly after the military seized power and began a crackdown on suspected leftists, known as the "Dirty War."
Snapshots of nyaope destruction
Nineteen-year old Lindokuhle Sobhekwa, who is in his final year at school, began photographing nyaope smokers in his East Rand neighbourhood last year
Since then he’s amassed a frightening and powerfully intimate body of work on addicts in ThokozaAt Buhlebuzile Secondary School in Thokoza, where I am in matric, I got involved in a project called “Of Soul and Joy”, which was supported by the Rubis Mécénat Cultural Fund and Easigas, and sponsored by Nikon Africa Trust.
My first series was on poor living conditions in the area. I did another on born-frees. My latest body of work is about those who use nyaope.
I began by photographing friends who live in my street. One day they saw me carrying a camera, so they called me and asked: “Can you take a picture of us?”
Is watching Brazil World Cup soccer in person reserved for the rich?
When Brazil decided to host the World Cup there was hope that both rich and poor citizens could see games live on their home turf. That hasn't been the case.
When Brazil ended up using largely public funds to finance stadiums, there was a hope that at least a wide array of Brazilians would be able to witness games on their home turf to take advantage of playing host. But when the tournament began, some observed that Brazil team games appeared to be a sea of white faces in the stands. Then, pollster Datafolha decided to find out definitively, surveying attendees at Saturday's Brazil vs. Chile game. Around 67 percent of attendees identified as white, and 90 percent identified as members of the A and B classes, or the highest-earning social classes in Brazil. So why is this the case?
A larger international trend of expensive soccer tickets
In the Britain, for example, the average price for the cheapest adult season ticket to a top-four division soccer match cost around $573 last year. Plus, some observers note that overall, regardless of the teams playing, this year'sWorld Cup matches appear to have largely white crowds.
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