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Google is celebrating civil rights leader Fred Korematsu with its Google Doodle today, on the day that would’ve marked his 98th birthday. Korematsu was born in Oakland, to Japanese immigrants parents, and went into hiding when then U.S. President Roosevelt issued its executive order to people of Japanese descent living in the U.S. into internment camps. Korematsu went into hiding instead of entering a camp voluntarily, and was arrested in 1942 for fleeing the order. He was then imprisoned in a camp in Utah until the end of the war. Korematsu was later issued the Medal of Freedom by Bill Clinton, and following the events of September 11, he spoke out about how the U.S. should not go down the same path with those of Middle-Eastern descent as it did with people of Japanese heritage during WWII. Korematsu would also file amicus briefs in court cases involving detainees at Guantanamo Bay who were arguing against wrongful and prolonged unlawful detainment, arguing tha...

Lewis Hamilton of Great Britain and Mercedes GP   CREDIT:  GETTY IMAGES   N o-one left to blame this time.  As his hold on this title slipped further still , so too did Lewis Hamilton’s grasp on reality after a weekend of self-destruction rarely seen in Formula One by a three-time world champion. The last seven days have been vintage Hamilton against the world. Among the echo chamber of his own devoted fan base online, where he is worshipped like a deity, he may have won, but in every other sense he lost. He was diminished among those who admire him enormously as a sportsman, and usually find it in their wit to gloss over some of his more colourful public behaviour – this correspondent included - he left Mercedes fearing their lead driver is in meltdown at one of the most critical junctures in his career, and most importantly of all of course, he lost.   Hamilton is running out of people to blame   CREDIT:  ...