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Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
>> The new BBC wildlife series Africa will make it clear when animals have been filmed under controlled conditions. The move comes a year after an episode of Frozen Planet, featuring a polar bear with her cubs, was criticised. Some shots in the programme were filmed in a Dutch zoo, but viewers assumed that the footage came from the Arctic. The producers of Africa said they felt it “appropriate to be more explicit” about the origins of such sequences.
The fag end
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
The British government’s department of health is on a mission to dissuade smokers. In mid-January, it will launch a series of hard-hitting advertisements featuring people smoking cigarettes with a tumour growing from the end.
Pills tell stories
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
Young Iranian artist Sanaz Sohrabi ended 2012 by setting up a performance-art protest across the street from UN headquarters in New York. Sohrabi, 24, wants to raise awareness of the crippling impact international sanctions are having on ordinary Iranians, especially those living with illnesses.
Tsunami bomb
Issue Date: Jan 31, 2013
A new book has revealed rare historical gems buried in New Zealand’s national archives, including a bizarre World War II plan to create a “tsunami bomb” and military files detailing supposed UFO sightings. Author Ray Waru said he wrote Secrets and Treasures to highlight the material publicly available at Archives New Zealand in Wellington.
NASA goofs up
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
The US space agency NASA has admitted it mistook a mountain in India for Mount Everest when it posted online a picture taken from space.
Africa’s poster city
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
Lagos now has its edition of the famous board game Monopoly. The Nigerian metropolis, one of the fast-growing cities in the world, is the first African city to have a Monopoly edition. The board’s layout was unveiled on December 12 at Lagos City Hall, with the manmade Banana Island named as the upmarket equivalent of Mayfair in the London edition.
Apple loses its track
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
Inaccuracies in Apple Maps could be “life-threatening” to motorists in Australia’s searing heat, police have warned. Sharon Darcy, the acting senior seargent of Victoria state, said, “Tests on the mapping system by police confirm the mapping system lists Mildura in the middle of the Murray Sunset National Park, approximately 70 km away from the actual location of Mildura.
Iran’s YouTube
Issue Date: Jan 15, 2013
The depleted online menu for Iranians has got a little better. The country has launched a video upload site, Mehr, to promote Iranian culture. But just days after its launch, the website, that officials hope will rival Google’s popular YouTube, has been marred by poor download speed and technical glitches.
Risky roads
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2012
Politicians in the UK have joined cycling groups to condemn a BBC documentary which purports to show the “war” between cyclists and other vehicles on British roads, but ends up stereotyping cyclists as reckless.
From streets to cyberspace
Issue Date: Dec 31, 2012
They have battled the police in streets and fought the authority in courts. Now, faced with an 80-fold hike in fines for unauthorised demonstrations, Azerbaijani anti-government activists are turning to Facebook.
