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Can we domesticate anything?

Dogs and cats are great companions, but what other animals can be domesticated? Why don’t jockeys ride zebras rather than horses and could we ever domesticate a hippo to take the kids to school? Maddie Moate unravels how humans have shaped the nature of so many species and discovers the boundaries that dictate domestication.

CIA admits staging Iran coup in 1953

60 years to the day after Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadeq was ousted in a coup d’etat, the CIA has finally admitted that it organised the action alongside the British Secret Intelligence Service.The US and UK conspired to have the democratically elected Mossadeq replaced with General Fazlollah Zahedi in order to strengthen the position of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The Shah went on to repress political opposition and used his US-trained secret police service, SAVAK, to brutally crackdown on suspected dissidents.