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...centre of the country – and then to the south and the borders with Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso. On March 6, there was a terrorist attack on the restaurant La Terrasse in Bamako, in the south-west of the country. Five people were killed and nine were injured. On June 10, there was an attack by armed men on Malian security forces in the town of Misseni, near the border...

...centre, using a car bomb and suicide vests. That this is an apparent suicide bombing shows some form of complexity. Recent attacks in the UK have been relatively crude, low-tech incidents involving knives and vehicles. In 2010, Labour MP Stephen Timms was stabbed by a radicalised woman, and fusilier Lee Rigby was brutally murdered by Michael Adebolajo and Michael...

...centres, where Edinburgh and Glasgow both recorded Remain votes higher than the national average. Only in Moray, where just over 50% voted remain, was the outcome relatively close. What are the implications of this for our understanding of the UK as a shared political space – a genuinely united kingdom bringing together an increasingly disparate set of nations,...

...centre of an ancient civilisation, or Lumbini, the birthplace of Gautam Buddha. [Sacred fig tree in india, with various offerings around the base]Sacred fig tree, Ajmer, Rajhastan, India Natural heritage Even in highly populated and crowded cities of South Asia, urban nature is never far away. Trees are protected for their religious symbolism. Different types of fig trees...