British Prime Minister David Cameron may want a politics-free Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, but campaigners have railed against sponsors鈥 links to deaths and human rights abuses at home and abroad.
The Tory PM told business leaders on a jaunt to Glasgow University on July 23 that he wanted to steer clear of politics as the clock wound down to the games opening ceremony. A crowd of protesters thronged outside the university library where he spoke, with picketers ranging from the Radical Independence Coalition to Our People鈥檚 National Health Service.
Rory MacKinnon
A New Zealand newspaper has sparked outrage after declaring 鈥減rotest-free news鈥 and printing a white power symbol to mark the country's official founding as a European colony.
The New Zealand Herald drew ire from readers over its outspoken refusal to cover otherwise high-profile protests by indigenous Maori on Waitangi Day. Commemorated on February 6, it is a state holiday marking the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi between the British crown and tribal delegations.
Olympic organisers and their corporate sponsor Visa were still keeping mum on August 1 after yet another ironic twist to their 鈥渃ashless Olympics鈥.
Hungry spectators at Wembley to see Team GB women's victory over Brazil took to social networks on the night of July 31 to complain of a second breakdown in three days of payment systems at food counters 鈥減roud to only accept Visa鈥 under the company's exclusive sponsorship deal.