World What's another year? A humiliating and demoralising setback or a second chance at success; the debate over children repeating a year in school is complicated and emotive 03/01/2014
North Korea Was Kim Jong-un's uncle fed to the dogs? That's not really the point It’s one of the viral rumours of the start of 2014: North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is said to have executed his uncle by having him stripped and 03/01/2014
Algeria Paris’s blue dog and wall of separation A group of people crawling up a bus, trying to get inside it through the window. Right next to that, a man is busy rolling out a red carpet. These 03/01/2014
Israel Ariel Sharon, controversial life of a soldier turned politician Sharon was born Ariel Sheinermann, in 1928 in Palestine which was then under British mandate. His Belarusian parents had fled there from the pogroms 03/01/2014
Israel Israel's ex-PM Sharon suffering multi-organ failure Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a 2006 stroke, is close to death as his health continues to decline, the head of the 03/01/2014
