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From hip-hop that tackles toxic masculinity, to frank online discussions about mental health, a global movement is asking afresh: what does it mean to be a man?
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New York City records fewest shooting incidents in 25 years
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‘Rip-off’ charges for paying by card to be banned
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Being mankind: new issue of Positive News magazine focuses on masculinity
From LA’s ‘gangsta gardener’ to a stay-at-home man in Hertfordshire, the new issue of Positive News magazine interviews people who are ‘rewriting the man code’
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The under-reported decline of global poverty
Since yesterday, 250,000 people have been lifted out of bone-crushing, one-meal-a-day, soul-destroying, unrelenting, extreme poverty, writes Dr Angus Hervey. It’s time to tell that story of progress
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New London tube map designed to help people with claustrophobia and anxiety
People with claustrophobia and other anxiety conditions could find their journeys less stressful by using a Transport for London map that shows which stations and sections of its network are underground
Rage against the latrine: the safer, more sustainable loo that’s changing lives
A lack of hygienic sanitation is a major issue in many parts of the world, but are resource-hungry western style toilets the only option? Not according to the company piloting a loo that's waterless, off-grid and able to charge your phone. Lina Zeldovich travels to Madagascar to witness the start of a lavatorial revolution
The social enterprise that matches struggling artists with temporarily empty properties
Matching up London’s struggling artists with the empty properties of holidaying homeowners, social enterprise Launch Pad is seeking its first applicants. It’s ‘house-sitting for creative folk,’ they say
Colombia’s Farc soldiers plan normal lives after peace deal
Thousands of Farc guerrillas in Colombia have begun the process of becoming civilians again following a peace deal with the government
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