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Political cartoonists risk death, injury to shine light on life

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Peggy Curran – April 6, 2012

For political cartoonists, the pen really is mightier than the sword - even when that sword might be used against them. It happens.

On a war-torn street in the Middle East or a tranquil neighbourhood in northern Europe, a satirical sketch can get you killed, maimed or sent to prison.

'Corruption tours' shine light on Czech graft

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Jan Flemr – March 24, 2012

Riding a wave of public disgust at graft, a new Czech travel agency has started tours highlighting sites linked to corruption, a social ill that has plagued the ex-communist country for decades.

The aptly-named CorruptTour agency touts the "best of the worst" trips to posh villas, a nonsensical funicular, an empty meadow hosting a non-existent Olympic stadium, even a big, boxy concrete mausoleum.

The bugger, bugged: News of the World hacker stung by Hugh Grant

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Hugh Grant – April 12, 2011

After a chance meeting with a former News of the World executive who told him his phone had been hacked, Hugh Grant couldn’t resist going back to him – with a hidden tape recorder – to find out if there was more to the story...

When I broke down in my midlife crisis car in remotest Kent just before Christmas, a battered white van pulled up on the far carriageway. To help, I thought. But when the driver got out he started taking pictures with a long-lens camera.

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