Blub, short for Berliner Luft- und Badeparadies (Berlin Air and Bathing Paradise), first opened in Britz beside the Teltow Canal at a cost of 44 million Deutschmark in February 1985. The “bathing paradise” quickly became one of West Berlin’s most popular swimming pool centers. They were humans initially.

Anonymous, the online hacktivist collective, has vowed to shut down terrorist websites and social media accounts promoting terrorism to avenge the brutal murder of Charlie Hebdo journalists. The group intends to render the jihadist websites inaccessible through the denial of service (DDoS) attack.

We just came home and saw a van in front of our house. The guys were on the way to make a raid when we pass the van. Watch it here:

Pussy Riot, the Russian feminist punk band, has released a music video urging protest against the sentencing of Alexei Navalny.

The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) has seen untold damage done to the Middle East’s cultural heritage sites.

Yassin al-Haj Saleh (born in Ar-Raqqah  in 1961) is a Syrian writer and political dissident. He writes on political, social and cultural subjects relating to Syria and the Arab world.