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...June 11, Alexander Shchednov, known in Russia's art circles as Shurik, was hanging up a collage outside the town hall in the southwestern city of Voronezh. The image showed the face of a coy-looking Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin superimposed over the head of a woman in an evening dress, with the slogan, "Oh I don't know ... a third presidential [term] ... it's too much, on the other hand [three is a charm]." But Shchednov never got the chance to display his new work. Before he could hang the collage, he was arrested, becoming the latest...
...rural America, there's not many private companies that are going to hire teenagers," says Bill Renick of the Mississippi Partnership Workforce Area. "You just don't have businesses on every corner in small-town Mississippi. I've got applications from kids from Sarah - a town which has maybe 200 people - and summer-job opportunities just don't normally come around for them." As a result, Renick says more than 10,000 applications were submitted for what will likely turn out to be about 1,600 jobs...
...pitted against each other, Asha learns to cook in the microwave, to operate the washing machine and to stack the dishwasher, instead of learning the alphabet or math. Sitting in a park, keeping an eye on the children she minds, she talks about running in fields near her home town in West Bengal, playing hide and seek with her sister, and collecting raw mangoes and eating them with salt. And suddenly, from a children's nanny, Asha returns for a moment to what she is - a child...
...Thumped by a global depression, firms just about everywhere have gone to town on staff costs in recent months, from salary cuts to mandatory unpaid leaves. But BA is going further. Volunteers can sacrifice between a week and one month's worth of salary, or else spread the pain by taking a reduced salary for three to six months. Union officials have scoffed at the proposal. "Willie Walsh can afford to work a month for free," says a spokesman for Unite, BA's biggest union. "Our members can't." (See pictures of London's Heathrow Airport...
...Islamic revolution. Meanwhile, the powerful Guardian Council is investigating allegations of poll fraud, and has suggested a partial recount - a solution main opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi has rejected. So why has the hard-line President - so confident in his electoral triumph and dismissive of his detractors - quit town...