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The dark web: Guns and drugs for sale on the internet's secret black market By Adrian Goldberg Presenter, 5 live Investigates Out of reach of regular internet searches is the secretive online world known as the 'dark web' - anonymous, virtually untraceable global networks used by political activists and criminals alike. "You have the availability of multiple dealers so you can compare products - and customers can review the dealer's product, too." American student, David - not his real name - explains why he chooses to buy illegal drugs on the so-called 'dark web'. "You don't have to go in front of a street dealer, where there might be a risk of violence," he adds. And it is not just drugs which are available on this online black market. Fake passports, guns - even child pornography. Anonymous drug dealers The dark web is facilitated by a global network of ...

Davos 2012 hails a year of worries By Tim Weber Business editor, BBC News website, Davos   Some of the world's richest and most powerful people attend the World Economic Forum When more than 2,600 of the world's richest, cleverest, most powerful, influential or entrepreneurial people are cooped up in a Swiss mountain valley, surely something must come out of it? Call it the curse of high expectations. With a track record like the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) - peace deals struck, political breakthroughs achieved, massive aid projects launched, wars averted, or at least the global agenda set - expectations are high. Against these benchmarks, Davos 2012 felt somewhat flat. Now don't get me wrong. By definition the World Economic Forum can't be boring. There are just too many interesting people here to make it a dull event. Walk 20 yards, chat to four or five people, and you ...

Why do some people never get depressed? By Geoff Watts BBC World Service Confronted with some of life's upsetting experiences - marriage breakdown, unemployment, bereavement, failure of any kind - many people become depressed. But others don't. Why is this? A person who goes through experiences like that and does not get depressed has a measure of what in the psychiatric trade is known as "resilience". According to Manchester University psychologist Dr Rebecca Elliott, we are all situated somewhere on a slidling scale. "At one end you have people who are very vulnerable. In the face of quite low stress, or none at all, they'll develop a mental health problem," she says. "At the other end, you have people who life has dealt a quite appalling hand with all sorts of stressful experiences, and yet they remain positive and optimistic." Most of us, she thinks, are somewhere in the middle. ...

Trendfear: Do you ever feel you're being left behind? By Tom de Castella BBC News Magazine   January is a cornucopia of technological tipping and frantic futurology, but do you ever get a nagging fear that trends are passing you by? What is Pinterest ? And is it important what it is? And will Summly have a big year in 2012? And does that matter? There are plenty of people who would answer these questions with a stock "I don't care". These people might refuse to even look at social media, and choose to eschew the smartphone and the tablet. But there are plenty of jobs where you might have to take notice. There are areas of advertising, marketing, public relations, journalism, academia, design, and finance where workers might find themselves looking a bit silly if they reveal they have no idea of the technological lie of the land. And the narrowly defined technology sector itself is ever-more important. ...

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Chandragupta Maurya Chandragupta Maurya Mauryan Emperor Reign 320–298 BCE Born 340 BCE Birthplace Patliputra (Patna) , Bihar, India Died 298 BCE (aged 42) Place of death Sravana Belgola , Karnataka, India [1] Predecessor Dhanananda of Nanda Dynasty Successor Bindusara Consort Durdhara Royal House Mauryan dynasty Religious beliefs Hinduism for major part of life, Jainism in older days Chandragupta Maurya ( Sanskrit : चन्द्रगुप्त मौर्य Hindi : चन्द्रगुप्त मौर्य ), (born c. 340 BCE, ruled c. 320 BCE, – 298 BCE ) was the founder of the Maurya Empire . He succeeded in conquering most of the Indian subcontinent and is considered the first unifier of India as well as its first genuine emperor. In foreign Greek and Latin accounts, Chandragupta is known as Sandrokyptos ( Σανδρόκυπτος ), Sandrokottos ( Σανδρόκοττος ) or Androcottus . Prior to Chandragupta's consolidation of power, small regional kingdoms dominated...

Lahore grieves over heart pill deaths By Orla Guerin BBC News, Lahore   Ashiq Hussain (right) : one of more than 100 victims of the pills   A chorus of grief rose from the narrow backstreets of Lahore, where members of the Hussain family were saying a last goodbye to a much-loved father and grandfather. Head-scarved women wept and wailed around the body of Ashiq Hussain, which was wrapped in a white sheet and covered with rose petals. He was the latest victim of the free heart drugs that have cost more than 100 - and doctors are warning the death toll could continue to rise. In one of the last photos ever taken of Ashiq, the white-haired pensioner was hugging his grandson, and smiling broadly. Relatives say they seldom saw him any other way. "He was smiling till the day he died," said Nazia Hussain, his granddaughter. "He was always happy and jolly. He never complained once that he was in pain, even in hi...