The Syrian conflict has had outsized impact on global politics. It saw rise of the Islamic State, Russia's emergence as major global player, a destabilized Europe due to inflow of migrants and terror attacks, the subversion of Syria's neighbours and Iran's rise.
Actress Stephanie Beacham, whose roles include TV series Dynasty and Tenko, tells a newspaper about being raped during the early 1970s.
English rugby breaks new ground with the first Premiership game in the USA, but was the experiment successful?
He idolises Mahendra Singh Dhoni as a cricketer and Pakistani wicketkeeper batsman Sarfraz Ahmed said he would love to play the role of a finisher like the celebrated Indian skipper.
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Life and Times During the Great Depression
The Money Project is an ongoing collaboration between Visual Capitalist and Texas Precious Metals that seeks to use intuitive visualizations to explore the origins, nature, and use of money.
The economy of the United States was destroyed almost overnight.
More than 5,000 banks collapsed, and there were 12 million people out of work in America as factories, banks, and other shops closed.
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The Cloverfield ARG ate the Internet back in the day, but how have have those websites weathered the intervening years? The post Remember When Cloverfield Ate the Internet? Good Times appeared first on WIRED.
Searching for signs of life on faraway planets, astrobiologists must decide which telltale biosignature gases to target. The post Scientists Search for Signatures of Alien Life Hidden in Gas appeared first on WIRED.
It's time for Canberra to get behind Callum McPhie has the nation votes for the winner of the grand final of Australia's Got Talent.
Ken Liu's new The Paper Menagerie, collects fifteen of his Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories. Critic Amal El-Mohtar calls it "stupendously good work" that strikes chords profound enough to hurt.
Pancake Week (Maslenitsa) is currently underway in Russia, marking the end of winter and the beginning of spring, as well as serving as a prelude to Great Lent - a seven-week fast ahead of the Orthodox Easter.
Sinisa Mihajlovic's side, currently sixth in the table, will be hoping to bounce back from last weekend's defeat to Sassuolo but have won just two of their last five league games
Mr. Sportsknowitall, Ken Hambleton, answers your questions in his weekly reader mailbag.
In 1999, a Lincoln developer got a small undeveloped rural parcel -- without city sewer service -- annexed into the city, an exception to traditional policy and a proverbial nose under the camel’s tent.
As 2015 wound to a close, Feingold'ss share of out-of-state fundraising increased.
Capetonians from across the city showed they support to the family of 19-year-old rape and murder victim Sinoxolo Mafevuka.
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TILLIGTE - Vrijwilligers hebben een bijenschuur in Zwolle opgehaald en afgelopen zaterdag weer opgebouwd in Tilligte. De schuur maakt onderdeel uit van de insecten- belevingstuin waaraan de dorpsgemeenschap momenteel werkt.
The bag containing a portion of Simon Darby's ashes initially tested positive for ketamine
An avalanche warning was again issued today for higher areas of Jammu and Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, advising people not to venture into these places over the next 24 hours.
Penalty rates should be preserved to protect Victoria's "most vulnerable" workers, the state government has told the national workplace tribunal.
?Sir Mike Tomlinson, Birmingham's education commissioner, has argued the phrase is "not helpful"
HENGELO - Sinds vrouwencentrum Rosa de deuren moest sluiten - als gevolg van de gemeentelijke bezuinigingen - krijgt Internationale Vrouwendag in Hengelo nog maar mondjesmaat aandacht. Met uitzondering van de Hengelose Es.