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'Then the shooting started': Afghan asylum seekers on the moment they lost their family video |

Said fled Afghanistan with his wife and seven children. Only he and his nine-year-old son Wali Khan made it to Britain. Their life in Derby is precarious and for Said, who is struggling to learn English, lonely. We will follow this family as they attempt to make a home in Britain and seek a legal

20 of the best food tours around the world

Feast your eyes on these foodie walking tours, which reveal the flavours and culture of cities from Lisbon to Lima, Havana to Hanoi Taste Portos tours are rooted in fundamental beliefs about the gastronomic scene in Portugals second city. First, Portuenses like to keep things simple: so, no fusion experiments. Second, its as

Bodies by Ian Winwood review rock and a hard place

Destruction and depravity is normalised in the transgressive world of rocknroll. Is it too late to reassess the human cost? In 2000, Ian Winwood, a longstanding writer for hard rock magazine Kerrang! was sent to interview an up-and-coming rock band. He liked them immediately, recognised their potential and struck up a friendship with them.

Harry Magdoff | US news

From the time of his youthful work as an economist with President Roosevelt's 1930s new deal onwards, Harry Magdoff, who has died aged 92, believed in the necessity of planning, as opposed to market chaos. It was in 1969 that Magdoff, the US's most prominent Marxist economist, published The Age of Imperialism: The Economics of

Sharif Abdel Kouddous | The Guardian

As the bombs fall behind them, desperate Palestinians mass at the Rafah border crossing. This is just what Netanyahu wants, writes Cairo-based journalist Sharif Abdel Kouddous