Standing atop a life-size statue of BR Ambedkar, the chief architect of India's constitution, a man kept hammering away, defacing the sculpture in the heart of Amritsar as the country celebrated ...

Well, now Turkey's anti-government protesters have their own symbolic hero — Erdem Gunduz, also known as the "Standing Man." Gunduz set out to stage a solo protest in Istanbul's Taksim Square ...