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The French president Francois Hollande announces that an operation to protect civilians in the violence-torn Central African Republic will begin within hours.
Hatred-motivated terror attacks could be prevented by more work on community cohesion says a government taskforce. Too woolly or can it work?
Tit-for-tat killings, rape, refugees – the Central African Republic has been described as “on the brink of genocide”, so should the international community intervene?
Lindsey Hilsum
Mourners wept in the Catholic church in Tabala, near the old city of Damascus, as a priest performed funeral rites for Major General Joseph Fadlallah Dakhlallah, “the best in the Syrian army at fixing tanks”.
Matt Frei
Faced with the Vietnam war and revelations of his serial philandering, the young, dashing JFK may well have ended his tenancy at the White House in failure and disgrace.
The founding members of Britain’s favourite comedy troupe are reuniting for a new show. What has Monty Python ever done for us, I hear you ask? Here’s what you need to know.
Paul Mason speaks to the conspiracy theorists about the assassination of former US President John F. Kennedy, and meets the students who wish the past would stop haunting American politics.
Is the music industry hanging on to relics of the past? Ahead of the Mercury Prize, Culture and Digital Editor Paul Mason asks what future there is for the album.
Matt Frei
New research has discovered that the actual number of Roma living in the UK is 200,000 higher than the original estimate of 225,000.
Is the music industry hanging on to relics of the past? Ahead of the Mercury Prize, Culture and Digital Editor Paul Mason asks what future there is for the album.
We’ve all heard of Hurricane Mitch or Katrina, but why the blustery weather due to strike the UK on Monday has been named after a saint is unknown to Britain’s official storm watchers, the Met Office.
Alex Thomson
Elements of the police and the British army were working hand in glove with the UVF to murder people with no paramilitary connection whatsoever during the Troubles.
A school in Lancashire bars two Muslim schoolboys from classes because they will not shave off their beards. Should school uniform rules be respected – or is this a step too far?
Jon Snow
Both these priests have huge mountains of prejudice and doubt to climb but Pope Francis and Iran’s Rouhani may herald a more creative and hopeful era.
US diplomat Richard Haass holds all-party talks in Northern Ireland this week on challenges to the peace process. 15 years after the Good Friday agreement, we look at the challenges that remain.