An innocent man in the United Kingdom was burned to death after being wrongly accused of pedophilia.

According to the Bristol Post, Bijan Ebrahimi, an Iranian man who lived in Bristol, England, was murdered in July after rumors began swirling in his community that he had been taking indecent photographs of children.

The Telegraph reports that Ebrahimi, who was an avid gardener, had indeed taken photos of local youths. However, it is now believed that these youths had been harassing Ebrahimi by damaging his flowers, and that he may have been collecting the photos as evidence to present to the police.

Ebrahimi’s family says that he had been a victim of racism and harassment for years.

On July 11, Ebrahimi’s neighbors reportedly contacted the authorities to complain about this photo taking. When the police arrived, Ebrahimi is said to have been arrested for “breaching…

In central Africa, there’s an orphanage that is a last refuge for hundreds of children. For kids whose parents have died — many of them from AIDS — the Kaliro School and Orphanage is a place where they can grow and thrive, safe from the hazards all around them. It’s typical of many such institutions in Africa, which suffer from a lack of funding, and are taking care of many more children than they can handle.

But at least students and residents of the orphanage no longer have to sit in the dark at night. By installing Israeli-developed solar energy systems, Innovation: Africa has brought light to not only the 500 children of the Kaliro School, but to hundreds of thousands of others as well. The project is unique in Africa and it recently won a top award from the United Nations.

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 Brooklyn’s Community Board 3 elected five new officers on Monday, including a board chair to officially replace now-District Manager Henry Butler.The board, which serves most of Bedford-Stuyvesant, elected treasurer and interim chair Tremaine Wright to replace Butler, who in August stepped down as chair to accept a paid position as the board’s district manager.

Wright, who has served 10 years on the board and also owns Common Grounds Cafe at 376 Tompkins Ave., said she was excited for the opportunity to take the board into the future.

Men aren’t from Mars and women aren’t from Venus, but their brains really are wired differently, a new study suggests.

The research, which involved imaging the brains of nearly 1,000 adolescents, found that male brains had more connections within hemispheres, whereas female brains were more connected between hemispheres. The results, which apply to the population as a whole and not individuals, suggest that male brains may be optimized for motor skills, and female brains may be optimized for combining analytical and intuitive thinking.

“On average, men connect front to back [parts of the brain] more strongly than women,” whereas “women have stronger connections left to right,” said study leader Ragini Verma, an associate professor of radiology at the University of Pennsylvania medical school. But Verma cautioned against making sweeping generalizations about men and women based on the results.