Our selection of some of the most striking news photographs taken around the world this week. [slideshow_deploy id=’1766′]

Participants took to the streets of Jedburgh on Thursday for its traditional annual ba’ game. It is one of a number of towns in the Scottish Borders to stage such events.   [slideshow_deploy id=’1763′]

French farmer Jean-Bernard Huon has shunned modern techniques such as machinery and pesticides, choosing the manual subsistence farming methods once followed by his peasant ancestors. Reuters photographer Stephane Mahe spent seven days with Jean-Bernard and his partner Laurence in Riec-sur-Belon, a corner of southern Brittany on France’s west coast, to capture scenes of their unique way of living. Jean-Bernard, 70, …

A selection of the best photos from across Africa and of Africans elsewhere in the world this week.   [slideshow_deploy id=’1716′]

[slideshow_deploy id=’1700′] Twenty-four photographs from the Lewis Hine archive have been auctioned in New York. The rare prints were from the collection of the late New York photographer Isador Sy Seidman. American sociologist Hine was one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th Century. Because the notion of photojournalism and documentary did not exist at the time, Hine …

Bill Morneau will table his third budget this week. It marks an important moment in the life of his government. Timing is important in politics and policy. The proximity to the next election is closing. This may have inflationary pressures on the minister’s budget figures. The result could be a higher and longer deficit. Remember the government was elected on …

Samantha Armytage has criticised a “foolish” newspaper column published in response to her recent TV segment about mammograms. Last week, the 41-year-old underwent the test during an episode of Sunrise, sharing breast cancer statistics and urging women to be diligent about screening for it. “They say after 50 get [mammograms] done every two years; I would say start at 40, …

In Germany, the novelist Carmen-Francesca Banciu is introduced as a Romanian author; in Romania, she’s considered a German author. In the United States and Britain, she writes, she is considered transnational. These days questions of identity, integration and belonging threaten to overwhelm us. It is interesting to see how the complicated and contradictory processes of joining, belonging to, integrating in …

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A NEW challenge is set to land in Paul Toole’s lap with the media revelation that Lithgow’s maximum security jail is set to lose 13 corrective services officers, posing what is seen as a security threat. Other prisons around the State face similar cutbacks, perhaps with Gladys needing more cash to build new Sydney roads and stadiums. But slashing numbers in …