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This picture signaled an end to segregation. Why has so little changed? | Civil rights movement

In 1957, Dorothy Counts endured a taunting mob to integrate a North Carolina school. Sixty-one years later, her work is being undone One afternoon in early June, graduation week in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dorothy Counts-Scoggins answers the landline phone and waits for an update on the white people who want to flee the local school

10 of the best things to see and do in Batignolles, Paris

Away from Pariss more touristy areas, the Batignolles district in the 17th arrondissement is loved by locals for its bistros, bars, offbeat culture and romantic gardens This could be renamed the Batignolles food street, as both sides of the road are lined with restaurants symbolising the new image of the quartier. Meat-lovers should book the

Colombian beauty queen jailed for role in drug smuggling racket | Colombia

They call her the narcomodelo a one-time Colombian beauty queen who dreamed of catwalk fame and a life of luxury and glamour. But 31-year-old Angie Sanclemente Valencia's modelling career came to an abrupt end in an Argentinian court after she was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison for her role in

Did you solve it? The simple question almost everyone gets wrong | Mathematics

The answers to todays stencil stumpers Earlier today I set you these six stencil puzzles, based on a IQ test for children devised by the American psychologist Grace Arthur in the 1920s. In each puzzle there is a patterned square at the top. The challenge is to work out how to create this square by

Farnborough airports biggest critic silenced as expansion plans continue

UKs busiest private jet airfield announced plans to double weekend flights weeks after campaign group chair received injunction For four years, Colin Shearn, a 62-year-old retired corporate executive, led the Farnborough Noise Group, a watchdog for locals worried about the operations of Farnborough airport, the UKs busiest private jet airfield.