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News of the World | Sudan’s deadly crackdown evokes Arab Spring bloodshed
In the Middle East, it has often begun the same way: a popular swell of street protests against long-entrenched autocrats and demonstrators inspired by ... -
Travelog | Famed Indian climber nearly died on peak where team was lost
To Manmohan Singh Kohli, who led the first Indian team to the peak of Mount Everest, modern mountaineering bears little resemblance to the expeditions ... -
News of the World | Help your children play out a story and watch them become more creative
Children express creativity through “pretend play” – an activity that involves using imagination and make-believe. They make up stories and ideas “from scratch” and ... -
News of the World | Simply elegant, Morse code marks 175 years and counting
The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, ... -
Exclusive: Europe’s far-right parties wooing the young
They are strikingly young, but emphatic that they should not be considered newcomers. Rather, they are claiming the mantle of Old Europe at its ... -
Travelog | Space-tourism enters ‘home stretch’ toward commercial flight
Billionaire Richard Branson is moving Virgin Galactic’s winged passenger rocket and more than 100 employees from California to a remote commercial launch and landing ... -
News of the World | UN report Humans accelerating extinction of species
People are putting nature in more trouble now than at any other time in human history, with extinction looming over 1 million species of ... -
News of the World | Eight things you may not know about Leonardo da Vinci
Studies of hands for the Adoration of the Magi, by Leonardo da Vinci , as seen under ultraviolet light This year marks the 500th ... -
Science | Seeing is believing: Black holes are cosmic prisons
Black holes are cosmic prisons, where nothing escapes, not light or even data. But lots did come out of last month’s first image of ... -
News of the World | Notre Dame fire was a warning bell. But will Europe listen?
It’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. Like with so many ... -
Exclusive | Mysterious operative haunted Kaspersky critics
Keir Giles’ first thought was that the man’s cheap-looking suit didn’t seem right for a private equity executive. The man seated in front of ... -
Smoking pot vs. tobacco: What science says about lighting up
As more states make it legal to smoke marijuana, some government officials, researchers and others worry what that might mean for one of the ... -
News of the World | Scammers peddling bogus tax breaks find traction on Facebook
The scam ads used photos of nearly every U.S. governor — and sometimes President Donald Trump — to claim that with new, lucrative tax ... -
News of the World | The surprising (and Long) story of the first use of ether in surgery
In the small town of Jefferson, Georgia, about 20 miles from the University of Georgia in Athens, a 26-year-old physician named Crawford Williamson Long ... -
News of the World | Upstart party turns cannabis into key Israeli election issue
The Cinderella story of Israel’s current election campaign is a fringe party led by an ultranationalist libertarian with a criminal record who vows to ... -
Decline in readers, ads leads hundreds of newspapers to fold
Five minutes late, Darrell Todd Maurina sweeps into a meeting room and plugs in his laptop computer. He places a Wi-Fi hotspot on the ... -
News Of The World | Las Vegas bets on Elon Musk for tunnel transit system
Las Vegas’ tourism agency announced yesterday it is recommending that an enterprise backed by the divisive billionaire receive a contract to build and operate ... -
News of the World | How ‘completely avoidable’ measles cases continue to climb
The U.S. has counted more measles cases in the first two months of this year than in all of 2017 — and part of ... -
News of the World | Oscars predictions: What will win, what should win
BEST PICTURE The Nominees: “Black Panther,” “BlacKkKlansman,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Favourite,” “Green Book,” “Roma,” “A Star Is Born,” “Vice” The guild wins, which usually ... -
Travelog | NYC’s Chinatown welcomes Year of the Pig with vibrant parade
Drums, dragons and dancers paraded through New York’s Chinatown last weekend to usher in the Year of the Pig in the metropolis with the ... -
News of the World | Naked pot-smoking sect grows at Indian Hindu fest
The Kumbh Mela, or pitcher festival, is a series of baths by Hindu sadhus and sadhvis, holy men and women, and other pilgrims who ... -
Technology | Drivers, connect your Wi-Fi! iRacing a hit in NASCAR
Ray Alfalla got hooked on NASCAR in the late 1990s after his family left Cuba and settled in the Miami area. He’s the type ... -
News of the World | Old friend keeps word to Hemingway
When the 1958 film adaptation of “The Old Man and the Sea” hit theaters, Ernest Hemingway happened to be in New York City to ... -
News of the World | Valentino’s dramatic Paris couture has Celine Dion weeping
Valentino took drama to its height at its spring couture collection in Paris, where Celine Dion wept theatrically as a solemn Naomi Campbell swept ... -
News of The World | Grammy-nominated album shines light on transgender pioneer
For decades, Jackie Shane was a musical mystery: a riveting black transgender soul singer who packed nightclubs in Toronto in the 1960s, but then ... -
News Of The World | No more than one wife: Israel looks to tackle Bedouin polygamy
On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife. She ... -
News Of The World | Memorable news satellite photos of 2018
From Russian war games to lava flows on Hawaii to raging fires in California, images gathered from high above Earth by satellites in 2018 ... -
News of the world | At new Museum of Black Civilizations, a call to come home
The Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal opened this month amid a global conversation about the ownership and legacy of African art. The West ... -
TRAVELOG | Digital detox: Resorts offer perks for handing over phones
Can you take a vacation from your cellphone? A growing number of hotels will help you find out. Some resorts are offering perks, like ... -
Music Review | Quintessentially Baroque
Part I – Once forgotten, now recollected The story of Baroque is a perpetual one, as told by past and present editions of the ... -
Zhang Yimou’s ‘Shadow’ is breathtakingly beautiful saga
Black ink drips from the tip of a brush and daggers into clear water, spiraling out like smoke; a Chinese zither sounds a ferocious, ... -
‘Diamantino’ is bizarre political satire
The pro-European Union lobby just got the silliest, sexiest cinematic endorsement it could hope for in “Diamantino,” and that’s merely one of the surprises ... -
SHOWBIZ | Julia Roberts finds life (and her roles) get better with age
Julia Roberts is sitting on a couch in a Soho hotel when Lucas Hedges bursts in and begins frantically searching for his phone, sending ... -
A delicious, vicious acting feast in ‘The Favourite’
Yorgos Lanthimos’ “The Favourite,” a wicked blast of nasty fun, gleefully dispenses with the usual decorum of the period drama to free its powerhouse ... -
Travelog | Food chain disruption eyed in Hawaii whale sighting decline
Research into the decline of humpback whale sightings in Hawaii points to a food chain disruption likely caused by warmer ocean temperatures in the ...
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