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Steubenville, Ohio, was once best known for high school sports and as the birthplace of Dean Martin. But when a teenage girl was sexually assaulted by two members of the football team, the shadowy hacker group Anonymous caught wind of the story and decided to intervene
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To date at least 20 British nationals, some with no previous experience of combat, have travelled to Syria to fight Isis on the frontline. Eight of these Brits have lost their lives. This film follows the journeys of parents as they investigate why their children went out to joining the Kurdish army in their fight against Isis, including visiting the places they died in Syria. What led these young Brits to risk everything, travelling thousands of miles from home to wage war against the world’s most feared terrorist organisation, fighting someone else’s war?
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Ten years after climate movie The Age of Stupid had its green-carpet, solar-powered premiere, we follow its director as she revisits people and places from the film and asks: are we still heading for the catastrophic future it depicted?
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Alka Pradhan, James Connell and Sterling Thomas are lawyers for Ammar al-Baluchi, one of the five men facing the death penalty for plotting the 9/11 terrorist attacks -
Bird poaching has become a silent epidemic across China, but one young conservationist is determined to set the birds free
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Everything changed for Cornelius Walker on 27 November 2000 when Damilola Taylor was killed.
Spotlight
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Ita O'Brien works on the set of Keep Breathing to ensure the wellbeing of the actors and create a clear language and process
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A look back on the week when every politician seemed to be jogging, heading or kicking while avoiding questions on water buy-backs and Adani approvals
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Prince William meets five-year-old survivor of Christchurch massacre who asks him if he has a daughter
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Cyclone Kenneth has brought heavy rainfall, strong winds and waves of several metres to Mozambique, just a month after Cyclone Idai wreaked havoc on the southern African nation
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Extinction Rebellion has carried out the final day of its campaign to draw attention to climate change, using peaceful, mass civil disobedience that resulted in more than 1,000 arrests
Explainers
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Donald Trump’s mastery of persuasive language offer important clues to his political success, says communications expert Jennifer Mercieca from Texas A&M University
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Prof Jennifer Doudna, one the pioneers of Crispr-Cas9 gene editing, explains how this revolutionary discovery enables precise changes to our DNA
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Memory does not work like a video tape – it is not stored like a file just waiting to be retrieved. Instead, memories are formed in networks across the brain and every time they are recalled they can be subtly changed. So if these memories are changeable, how much should we trust them?
Sport
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The two-time olympic gold medallist beat the previous record by almost a metre
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Turin will become the 15th city to host season-ending tournament.
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'You didn't quit?': Terence Crawford and Amir Khan clash over low blow in welterweight fight – video
Speaking after the fight, Khan insisted: 'I would never quit, I would rather get knocked out'.
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Jarrell Miller has apologised after Anthony Joshua’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, reported that the US fighter had failed a second drug test before their planned fight in New York
Technology
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What a year it's been for the Facebook founder. There was that unforgettable Senate hearing, that huge data scandal and, oh yes, those 2 million Europeans who left the site
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The Tesla founder unveils his latest visionary project – a tunnel beneath LA that his Boring Company says will revolutionise urban transport
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China’s Xinhua state news agency has introduced the newest members of its newsroom: AI anchors who will report 'tirelessly' all day, every day, from anywhere in the country
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Pepper the robot tells MPs about a Middlesex University project that is developing culturally aware robots to provide care for elderly people
Interviews
Culture
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Ita O'Brien works on the set of Keep Breathing to ensure the wellbeing of the actors and create a clear language and process
Life & style
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Guardian reporter Leah Green finds out why it is so difficult to conquer insomnia, and why good treatment is so hard to come by
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As a group of animal rights protesters roast a very realistic fake dog on the streets of Sydney, butchers in France are attacked and campaigners in the UK hold noisy protests in supermarkets and restaurants, we look at whether vegan protests have become too extreme
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Do vegan and dairy-free icecreams taste as good as the originals? Our panel decides
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London's Big Ben chimed at midnight to ring in 2019, while the London Eye became the focus of a fireworks display on the South Bank of the River Thames.
Owen Jones: my search for life at the Tory conference – video