The rising spectre of tuberculosis across Russia
Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
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Facebook seemed like the perfect way to publicise Mark McAndrew’s online fundraising project – until he began to suspect that many of the fans of his Facebook page were fakes.
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Cases of drug resistant tuberculosis are on the rise in Russia. So why has Putin’s government banished one of the country’s biggest funders of TB programmes?
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Best known for its two great boomtime products – cars and Tamla Motown – Detroit is now a shell of what it was in the 50s and 60s. So what happened to the motors and the music?
“Let me be blunt: Detroit is broke.” Michigan’s governor says the city has gone bankrupt after 60 years of decline. But can the city that was once a symbol of industrial might bounce back?
Once the symbol of America’s industrial boom, the city of Detroit files for bankruptcy with debts worth $15bn, after a long, slow decline in population and in the auto manufacturing industry.