Shadows on the land: Fourteen years ago the new South Africa was born in an outpouring of euphoria. But works by the country’s own photographers and artists reveal a darker side of the rainbow nation. [Independent]
‘Baghdad-style’ checkpoints in US capital: Police in Washington DC have set up vehicle checkpoints in the American capital in a controversial measure aimed at tackling a wave of gun violence. [Telegraph]
Pakistani men sitting pretty: A growing number flock to salons to get facials, manicures and pedicures and even to have their backs waxed. ‘I like to look good and feel good,’ says one. [LA Times]
Police tell more than 1,000 people that someone wants to kill them: Senior officers across the country issued so-called Osman warnings to businessmen, drug dealers and gang members after receiving specific intelligence that they were at serious risk of being killed by individuals with the resources to arrange their death. [Times]
Inside Gate, India’s Good Life; Outside, the Slums: These enclaves have emerged on the outskirts of prospering, overburdened cities, from this frontier town next to the capital to the edges of seam-splitting Bangalore. They allow their residents to buy their way out of the hardships that afflict vast multitudes in this country of more than one billion. [NYT]
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