June 2012
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More great travel time-lapse videos sent in from our readers - there are some beautifully observed shots of people going about their daily lives captured in this piece on Kiev, posted by yeltz83
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Wildfires reach Colorado Springs
Raging wildfires in Colorado intensified on Tuesday, forcing 32,000 people to be evacuated. The fires are raging near Colorado Springs, the state’s popular tourist destination. Colorado Springs fire chief Rich Brown called it a ‘fire of epic proportions’
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Amazing time-lapse video from Jubilee weekend from ITN video-journalist Ben Begley. I wonder how many people standing on the embankment had wished the actual Queen’s Jubilee Thames pageant had only lasted 90 seconds. See more on Guardian Travel
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The physical and mental effort involved is exhausting. To select a single letter...
– Elizabeth Day speaks to Tony Nicklinson, who has locked-in syndrome, about communicating with the world via Twitter and his right to die campaign
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Q&A: Jonathan Safran Foer
What makes you unhappy?
Physical pain.
What is your guiltiest pleasure?
Watching YouTube videos of newscaster bloopers.
What or who is the love of your life?
Life, itself.
What is the worst job you've done?
Morgue assistant.
What is the most important lesson life has taught you?
It's better to say things aloud.
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Shocking footage: New York bullies abuse bus monitor
High school students in the upstate New York town of Greece hurl abuse at Karen Klein, a 68-year-old school bus monitor. The incident was filmed by one of the bullies and uploaded to YouTube. Klein later said in an interview that the most hurtful of the jeers was when the bullies said her family should kill themselves, as her oldest son took...
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Option 1: Order a pizza. Order two – it’s an embassy. When the delivery...
– Julian Assange: five escape routes from the Ecuadorean embassy - as envisaged by Tim Dowling
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Part of Stonehenge’s appeal is that it’s a riddle wrapped in...
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Stuart Jeffries looks again at the history behind Wiltshire standing stones as the summer solstice passes Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA
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Comedian Jimmy Carr apologises for tax...
I now realise I’ve made a terrible error of judgement.
— Jimmy Carr (@jimmycarr) June 21, 2012
More on this soon…