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The anxieties of millennials today seem so 21st century. They aren’t.

The attacks,coming only six weeks before the opening of the Olympics just 400 miles away,sowed widespread fear across the country.

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The Taliban has threatened the lives of health workers who immunise children.

When US gynaecologists were told to stop treating men,it led to a debate on male-female boundaries.

In the semiaquatic Zeus beetle,the female is about twice the size of the male.

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Margaret Thatcher’s death sparked much debate — not least over her £1.2 million funeral cost.

For many of Belfort’s victims,the movie brings back old pain of being cheated.

A powerful bomb shook central Beirut Friday morning,rattling windows and sending a black plume of smoke into the sky. Lebanese Red Cross officials reported five dead and 15 injured in the blast. The Associated Press,citing security officials,said Mohammed B Chattah,a former Lebanese government minister and ambassador to the United States,was among the victims and possibly […]

Nakaima also said he would call for the closure of the old base in five years.

This blunt tool only works because it collects everything,Judge Pauley said in the ruling.

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A postponement would be a victory for the protesters who oppose the elections.

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A pair of rockets that had been fired by the Taliban struck the United States Embassy in Kabul shortly before dawn on Wednesday,sending hundreds of American diplomats and aid workers based at the mission scrambling into fortified bunkers to start their Christmas Day,the embassy said. There were no reports of casualties at the embassy. However,Afghan […]