One Bag (all about packing, luggage, and travelling light) Independent Online Edition > Middle East 1 Art-house Iranian films by such directors as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf wow foreign audiences. But the domestic film industry also churns out hundreds of more popular pictures. Last year's big hit The Lizard, drew the clerics' wrath for depicting a convict escaping prison disguised as a mullah. This year's hit was Girls' Dormitory, about a psychotic killer terrorising students. 2 In the form of Shia Islam practised in Iran, Muslims are allowed to enter into temporary marriages with each other, sometimes lasting only a few hours. 3 More than 3,600 Iranians have been killed in the past 25 years fighting heroin smugglers, whose main trade route to the West passes through the Islamic republic. 4 Transsexuals are permitted to have sex-change operations in Iran by the decree of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini himself. 5 According to the UNHCR, Iran hosts more than one million foreign refugees - more than any other country on earth.
Chinese black helicopters circle Google Earth | The Register Top 5 truths about Big Data hype and security intelligence Those among you who like your skies darkened by black helicopters are invited to mosey on down to the remote Chinese village of Huangyangtan which hosts what must be the strangest military installation ever spotted by the Google Earth Community: Zooming in for a closer look, we have what appears to be a 900x700m scale model of a mountainous landscape... ...complete with lakes, valleys and snow-capped peaks: Truly bizarre. Google Earth aficionados can examine the evidence for themselves here (.kmz) while wondering what on Earth, or where on Earth for that matter, this remarkable landscaping project is. Top 5 truths about Big Data hype and security intelligence
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