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Obama speech at ASU

Ancient erotica: art through the ages

Lost Spanish civil war film negative

A close look at the Computer Virus

The state of America: population facts

Baghdad: City of walls

Baghdad: City of walls

In this unique four-part film, award-winning Guardian foreign correspondent, Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, an Iraqi journalist and photographer, takes us back to his home city of Baghdad. In the week of the sixth anniversary of the US-led invasion, this film, made by GuardianFilms for the Arab news network Al Jazeera, gives an insider's view of the real impact of the invasion on Baghdad as it became 'The City of Walls'.

May 2008
by Pual Graham
Great cities attract ambitious people. You can sense it when you walk around one. In a hundred subtle ways, the city sends you a message: you could do more; you should try harder.

The surprising thing is how different these messages can be. New York tells you, above all: you should make more money. There are other messages too, of course. You should be hipper. You should be better looking. But the clearest message is that you should be richer

Satre Stuelke's radiology art

The Reach of Mexico's Drug Cartels

Jazz on paper: art from The Jazz Century exhibition

Jazz didn't just turn music on its head - it dragged visual art into the 20th century. As Lionel Shriver writes in today's G2 , these pictures from The Jazz Century exhibition, at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris until 28 June 2009, capture the music's jangling madness

INTERACTIVE: New to English

Students learning English, labeled as English Language Learners by education officials, are among the nation’s fastest-growing group of students. In recent years these students have flooded small towns and suburban school districts in states like Arkansas, Georgia and North Carolina, which have little experience with immigrants.

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IPhone Art

Artist Jorge Colombo makes pictures of New York street life on his iPhone, using the Brushes application and his fingertips. You can watch movies of how he made them here, and here are some of the results

A New American Generation

Desert Metro Feature

Deported Immigrants Struggle To Re-Enter U.S.

The U.S. government deports hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to Mexico each year, and the majority of them are dropped just across the border.

Made During Company Time

KEEP YOUR EYES PEELED FOR RACISTS

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