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Alternative Behaviour

Reality Check: The new Iranian President tweets and talks calmly, Chinese elites have trouble with accountability, alternative Nobel Prizes are handed out, Greeks want to 'crush the Nazis', and the European bison is back baby!

Iran's New Softly Softly Approach

Everyone has their own way of communicating. Some are aggressive, some mumble. Some make outrageous statements, others take measured stabs at a peaceful future.

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Hassan Rouhani, President of Iran addresses the general debate of the 68th session of the United Nations General Assembly at United Nations headquarters in New York

What sort of impression has Iran's new President Hassan Rouhani been making at the UN General assembly this week and what has he been proposing? Mark Fitzpatrick at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, knows...

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Do You Know WHO I Am??

Bringing it to people's attention that you are the rich son or daughter of a prominent Chinese celebrity, politician or military star, isn't going to keep you from being held accountable these days. There has been a public outcry and backlash against wealthy spoilt rich Chinese who think that the laws of the land do not apply to them. Take Li Tianyi, 17 years old and just now sentenced to ten years in prison for taking part in the gang-rape of a woman this past February. Li Tiyani thought he had legal immunity thanks to the high position his parents hold in Chinese society. As ORF Beijing correspondent Jörg Winter tells us, Li Tianyi thought wrong...

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Hans Rudolf Herren, Swiss entomologist, agriculture scientist and development specialist

Right Livelihood Awards

Billed as the 'alternative Nobel Prizes', the Right Livelihood Awards were established in 1980 to honour and support those "offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today". People like Hans Rudolf Herren, the Swiss entomologist, agriculture scientist and development specialist and one of the world's leading experts on sustainable agriculture. Today, he won a Right Livelihood Award for his commitment to end hunger and poverty in our world. He was in good company according to Sharan Srinivas, the programme and research manager at the Right Livelihood Foundation.

Crush the Nazis!

Thousands have taken to the streets of Greece to protest against the far-right political party The Golden Dawn. Our Athens correspondent Mark Lowen was amongst the protesters...

12 Buffalo Soldiers...

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European bison chilling at the Lower Oder Valley National Park, in north Germany, on the Polish border

There were literally only 12 European bison left in zoos in Europe but they've made an astounding COMEBACK!
A detailed study compiled by the Zoological Society of London, BirdLife International and the European Bird Census Council and in collaboration with experts from across Europe, revealed threatened species such as European bison and beaver are gaining population numbers thanks to man's help. One such man is Frans Schepers, the Managing Director of Rewilding Europe.