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28 August 2017

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Fatwa kiosk opens in Cairo metro

The Egyptian government is trialling new fatwa kiosks on the Cairo metro.

News imageThe USS Indianapolis

WW2 wreck's discovery 'offers closure'

Survivors and relatives of the dead react to the tracing of the USS Indianapolis, 72 years on.

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Is France already losing its Macron frisson?

What prompted the sudden slump in President Macron's ratings? The BBC's Lucy Williamson investigates.

News imageElisabeth Kendall

Why I became a jihadist poetry critic

Osama bin Laden, like other jihadists, wrote poems. These might not win any literary prizes, but Elisabeth Kendall believes they could help fight extremism.

News imageAngela King

I was a neo-Nazi. Then I fell in love with a black woman

She was a violent white supremacist. But an encounter in prison changed Angela King's life forever.

News imageNaji Salim Hussain Al-Ali

Appeal over cartoonist's 1987 murder

Palestinian Naji Salim Hussain Al-Ali was shot in the neck in west London as he walked to work.

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Trafficking victims in small Scots towns

Victims of human trafficking have been identified in small and remote communities across Scotland.

News imageYoung women waving flags of the European Union gather in the city centre for a pro-EU demonstration of the 'Pulse of Europe' movement on March 12, 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. The movement sprung up in 2016 after the Brexit referendum result and the election of U.S. President Donald Trump

Frankfurt is winning the battle for Brexit spoils

Many of Europe's largest banks have already announced their intention to relocate jobs to Frankfurt as Brexit talks go on.

News imageGraphic showing lifts moving sideways and up and down

The lifts that can go sideways

Instead of using a steel rope, the cabin is carried by linear motors.

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