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David Ojok was walking home from school when the gunmen came for him. He was just 13 and was taken prisoner before being inducted into Ugandan rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army. Led by self-proclaimed messiah Joseph Kony, the rebel group inflicted unimaginable suffering during two decades of violence in Africa's longest running civil conflict. David, now 18, was one of 60,000 children abducted by the LRA - trapped in a terrifying limbo - in fear for his life with little hope of a future free from violence. Summoning incredible bravery, the teenager escaped his captors and is now looking ahead to a brighter future as a brick layer with training supported by British aid.

Food and water contamination kills more children than AIDS, malaria, or measles, combined. Human waste is an impressive weapon of mass destruction. So here's what's being done about it.

The third and final part of my Star Trek editing endeavours. I hope you all enjoy it as much as the previous two parts. Part 2 www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n1zmyMbdg Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0SJ9HuB5k

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Max von Sydow has been making movies since 1949, with everyone from Ingmar Bergman to Woody Allen. Now, at 82, he could be about to win his first Oscar, writes Hadley Freeman

Global Pulse (www.unglobalpulse.org) is an innovation initiative of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time anal...

I said yesterday I hope not to need to see teams like this ever again. Before I get to that, let me give you a quick rundown on what they’re doing.

Spending two weeks on the beach basking in the sun is a common way to enjoy spring break vacation. But in the past decade, many young Canadians are opting to...

Adding whole wheat, rice or barley to a slow-cooking stew is the easiest way to beef up the thinnest of suppers

Designers have turned webpages from simple sources of information into bloated showcases

Pastiche? Mash-up? The best form of flattery? Whatever you want to call it, artists have enjoyed riffing on historical paintings for ages. For some, it’s a fun way to learn and explore issues of co…

People with faith say secularism has become an aggressive and intolerant force in Britain. What has gone wrong? It should bring society together, says Julian Baggini

For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.

Deborah Orr: I'd like to see a national, collective endeavour to protect individual privacy, because privacy confers a kind of freedom

Photos I shot in Kibera, Nairobi, one of the biggest slums of Africa.

Growing up in the 1970s and early ’80s, I obsessively read and collected Marvel comics. I knew each hero’s origin story, rogue’s gallery, and costume...