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Business reporter for @postandcourier. Previously learned, interned or worked at @CoMissourian, @mcall, @dickinsonpress and @wvgazettemail Andrew Brown has over 2585 followers on Twitter.

Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan is tackling tax peculiarities

S Sudan: Slaughter on sacred ground

A priest tells of the bloodshed in Malakal, South Sudan, and of a daring escape from its cathedral.

Former Zimbabwe first lady Grace Mugabe. (AFP)

Losing my religion: Is the internet killing faith in the US?

The number of Americans saying they have no religion has risen alongside internet usage – but there is a simple explanation.

Alan Turing at school in Dorset

10 Things about Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing:Renowned British mathematician and computer scientist.

Italy’s ‘Vanity Fair’ magazine showing Archbishop Georg Ganswein on the cover. Archbishop Georg Ganswein

What is it about priests and sex?

Many people find male priests sexy – perhaps because spirituality and sex are closely linked as a result of their transformative power.

Cape Flats: On the border of war and privilege

Choppers, gunshots, dead dogs and dust. Faux fur, a silver Mercedes and immaculate detention.

Cardinal sin of sex in the church

They call it a resignation, but it looks as though Cardinal Keith O’Brien was pushed before he could even think of jumping.

Mixed views on Norway mass killer’s state of mind

Anders Breivik’s spider web of hate

An analysis of the Norwegian killer’s manifesto reveals the online network that helped him to withdraw into a paranoid universe.

Move over PC, MUC is coming

Could one of the inventors of the webcam transform the economics of computing for the poor? In 1991, when he was a doctoral student at Cambridge, Quentin StaffordFraser hooked up…

Collaboration won’t make the sun orbit the Earth

It is not often that something makes me laugh so hard I cannot breathe, but a recent piece on "wikigroaning" did. It consists simply of a list of paired topics on Wikipedia: the…

The demise of professional photographers

Half-a-dozen lurid and splodgy pictures in the local paper brought home to me the death of an honourable profession this week. I took them. I am in my small way responsible for…

The perfect system for people who hate computers

It seems a terrible shame to throw away perfectly good old computers just because they won’t run a modern version of Windows. What we need is a Granny Linux, something that is…

Fat lady gets ready to sing for Opera

Two months ago I stopped using Opera — the smallest, once the fastest and often the best browser built to date. Opera had all the good ideas years before everyone else. It had…

Keeping the dream alive

The most heroic figures of last week were the astronauts crawling around the edge of the space shuttle to repair the craft in which they must return to the Earth 400km below.…