GlobalPost: Silicon Sweatshops
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November 17, 2009 2:18 PM Whether it's your cherished iPhone, Nokia cell phone or Dell keyboard, it was likely made and assembled in Asia by workers who have few rights, and often toil under sweatshop-like conditions, activists say.
November 5, 2009 2:16 PM
Afghanistan: The Fog of War
Finbarr O'Reilly,a Reuters photographer based in Africa, created an audio slideshow for GlobalPost that captures some of challenges facing coalition troops in the worsening Afghan conflict.
November 3, 2009 1:27 PM 
As millions of Muslims begin arriving in Mecca for this year's pilgrimage, Saudi officials face a unique challenge: how to prevent this sacred rite from becoming an inadvertent incubator and global transmitter of swine flu.
The conditions that will arise during the pilgrimage, or hajj, which officially begins in the last week of November, are the exact opposite of what health officials like to see.
An estimated 2.5 million people from up to 160 countries — including perhaps 15,000 from North America — will walk, pray and eat in close proximity to each other for several days. They will touch the same religious objects and sleep in crowded tent cities.
Some, inevitably, will arrive carrying the new virus strain, H1N1.
Will the Hajj be an Incubator for H1N1?
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The conditions that will arise during the pilgrimage, or hajj, which officially begins in the last week of November, are the exact opposite of what health officials like to see.
An estimated 2.5 million people from up to 160 countries — including perhaps 15,000 from North America — will walk, pray and eat in close proximity to each other for several days. They will touch the same religious objects and sleep in crowded tent cities.
Some, inevitably, will arrive carrying the new virus strain, H1N1.
October 26, 2009 11:39 AM 
One hundred years ago Sir Ernest Shackleton attempted to reach the South Pole. He and his companions came within 114 miles of the pole, and he was knighted for his extraordinary achievement. A key element in exploring such a frigid climate at that time was a good supply of whisky. According to a GlobalPost story, a few years ago two cases of Charles Mackinlay & Co. whisky were found stashed under floorboards in a hut at Cape Royds on the Antarctic coast where Shackleton staying in 1909. Next year, conservationists expect to retrieve the cases from their icy tomb.
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Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Antarctic Whiskey Stash
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Ex-NBA ref Tim Donaghy 