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This interactive map from the BBC website shows how countries under Communist rule after World War II collapsed one by one between 1989 and 1991.

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A sustainable energy initiative that will start with a huge solar project in the Sahara desert has been announced by a consortium of 12 European businesses.

The Desertec Industrial Initiative aims to supply Europe with 15% of its energy needs by 2050.

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The Swiss People's Party has unveiled a campaign poster depicting a woman wearing a burka against a background of a Swiss flag upon which several minarets ressembling missiles were erected. It is aimed at getting the population to vote for a ban on minarets in Switzerland in a referendum on the issue in November.

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After the French authorities closed the migrant camp known as 'the jungle' Andrew Hosken returns to find out what has happened to the migrants, and why Calais is the town most people are happy to pass through on their way to somewhere else.

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This current event shares a series of images of what life is like for African migrants who arrive in Malta looking for a new life in Europe. It shares inside looks at the detention centers that people are held in and some pieces of their stories.

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This current event details a collection of world wide protests held on what was called International Climate Action day. Protesters from around the world came together in important locations to pressure world leaders to commit to seeing the amount of carbon in our atmosphere reduced to 350 parts per million---a number that scientists agree is the upper limit of safe carbon in our atmosphere.

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One of the scary trends in Europe today is the rise of political parties that have racist ideas. One of those parties is the British National Party (BNP), which won't let anyone who isn't white join their party and dislikes immigrants. Recently, protests broke out in Britain when the BBC allowed the leader of the BNP to appear on television.

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The Pirate Party, a political movement born out of music file-sharing, has gained support in Sweden and Germany, and is planning to field candidates in the next UK general election.

It wants to encourage all file-sharing and slash copyright - to the horror of many artists and entertainment executives. So are they a significant force or a fleeting bunch of freeloaders?

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Residents in Stockholm are divided over reports that rabbits are being used to make biofuel.

The bodies of thousands of rabbits are fuelling a heating plant in central Sweden, local newspapers say.

The city of Stockholm has an annual cull of thousands of rabbits to protect the capital's parks and green spaces.

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Without it international travel would be in turmoil and calling friends in faraway places at the right time impossible. Exactly 125 years after the Greenwich Meridian line was drawn, how and why did Britain become the centre of time?

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An Edutopia article on Voicethread that highlights my work with the tool. Very nice bit...

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While reading through the following table---created by Matt Copeland for his book Socratic Circles: Fostering Critical and Creative Thinking in Middle and High School Students, consider the differences between dialogue and debate. Then, use Diigo to engage in a conversation around the following four questions:


1. Which type of conversation are students exposed to the most often in schools? What about in the media? In their interactions with peers?
2. Which type of conversation are your students more comfortable with? Does this answer change as students grow older? Would younger students be better at one type of conversation than their older peers? What about older students---is there a type of conversation that they can master easily?
3. Is one type of conversation "better" than the other? Should we be emphasizing one more than the other in our work with students? Does one play a larger role in building global citizens than the other?
4. What does your school do to systematically teach students the differences between dialogue and debate?

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Britain will not take in hundreds of migrants evicted yesterday from the French refugee camp known as the Jungle, the Home Secretary claimed last night.

Alan Johnson insisted that suggestions Britain will be forced to accept some of the migrants were 'wrong'. He added he was 'delighted' French police had bulldozed the squalid camp near Calais.

However, evidence from France last night suggested Mr Johnson's optimism was seriously misplaced.

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French police have moved in to dismantle a makeshift camp set up by migrants near the port of Calais.

French officials said 278 migrants had been held in the operation at the camp known as "the jungle". More than 1,000 were thought to have already left.

Rights protesters scuffled with police and some arrests were reported.

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Britain should be prepared to accept some migrants from the illegal camp in Calais known as "the jungle", a senior United Nations official has said.

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The world's tallest man - who also has the largest hands and feet - has been named by Guinness World Records for the launch of its 2010 book.

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Who doesn't love the "For Dummies" books, right? This one is using Skype in School for Dummies.

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One thing that everyone wants to do with kids is Skype with people in other countries or states. This website provides information about other teachers who are willing to Skype with you!

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This website provides a bunch of activities divided by grade level for teaching tolerance to students. Could be a great source of easy to tailor lessons.

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