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Banksy's home city an urban canvas for elusive artist
Five years ago, British street artist Banksy adorned the side of a once uninspiring white brick building in Bristol with the familiar image of a girl gazing out solemnly.
Banksy shocks art world by shredding 1 mn work at auction
British street artist Banksy has stunned the art world with arguably his most audacious prank yet, self-destructing one of his best-known works moments after it fetched more than a million pounds at auction in London.
World Cup: Pussy Riot Protesters Charged over Pitch Demonstration
BBC - Russian authorities have charged four members of the punk activist group Pussy Riot for disrupting the World Cup final by running onto the pitch.
They are accused of violating the rules for spectators at sporting events and of wearing police uniforms illegally.
The two offences carry maximum fines of 10,000 roubles (£121; $161) and 1,500 roubles, respectively.
France Beats Croatia to Win Second FIFA World Cup Title
MOSCOW — Taking turns sliding across the rain-soaked turf holding the World Cup trophy tight, teenager Kylian Mbappe and the rest of France's players acted like the youthful bunch they are.
Nothing, not a Pussy Riot protest nor a postgame downpour that soaked Russian President Vladimir Putin, was going to stop the party.
Banksy needles France with migrant mural blitz in Paris
The mysterious British street artist Banksy appears to have taken aim at the French government's crackdown on migrants in a series of new murals in Paris.
Turkish opposition İYİ Party 'trolls' ruling AKP with Google ads
The opposition İYİ (Good) Party, which is set to race in the upcoming June 24 elections, has started a Google ads campaign for a number of keywords to target the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which has been dubbed by some social media users as "clever trolling."
Zombies in major cities celebrate “World Zombie Day” (photos)
Thousands of people around the world donned zombie costumes Saturday to mark World Zombie Day, a fundraiser to combat hunger that was filled with fake blood and braaaaiiiins.
The real power of social media
Sometimes it is best to follow global news to understand the real workings of any phenomenon. Social media is a strong tool in Turkey, but it is mostly used for negative effects. Aside from animal rights activists who are very organized in Turkey, no one seems to create a positive change because everything is very political and all the political parties use trolls very effectively.
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Internet trolls are harmful for Turkey
According to Wikipedia: "In Internet slang, a troll (/ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is a person who sows discord on the Internet by starting arguments or upsetting people, by posting inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community (such as a newsgroup, forum, chat room, or blog) with the intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal, on-topi
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Show of Banksy’s works opens in Rome
The works made by the artist known as Banksy are displayed for the first time in Rome’s Palazzo Cipolla Museum.
The unique exhibitions, titled War, Capitalism and Liberty, features works taken from private international collections, which look at social and political events through the irreverent artistic eye of the author.
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