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Chess is popular all over the world, yet after decades of Soviet domination, few have heard of the era-old pursuit. In his analysis of the game’s rise, the Dublin-based scholar Robert Court reminscences that…
An Israeli court has ordered that auctioneers not sell the blood-stained clothes of a man who allegedly helped to murder Jews in the Nazi death camp Auschwitz, it was reported Friday. The man had…
Round-trip mission will make science discoveries and marks end of the space programme for Nasa’s Orion capsule A NASA spacecraft will crash into an asteroid to survey how vulnerable the space rock could be…
Fox News confirmed Tuesday that an unknown amount of gunfire left an adult male killed at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport over the weekend. An Atlanta-area NBC affiliate identified the deceased as Ronald Jackson, and…
Miguel García’s obsession with town hall percussion goes back to the 1970s. He has been making home-made accordions for decades, at times replicating instruments and practices during his studies at Mexico City’s Conservatory of…
[The name of the novel has not been published]. We’d been invited to the premiere of a new film, and so we’d hiked up into Buffalo from Washington DC. But it was windy, and…
Admittedly, some enterprising design team of recent graduates made the recent switch from the subway, as well as other transportation systems, to a more novel mode of transport: bicycles. But that wasn’t the original…
The sandy beach of Thailand’s Phi Phi island, the setting for the highest-grossing movie of all time, has been granted the go-ahead to reopen to the public, eight years after it was closed by…
Kyrgios’s assertion (pictured, right) was contentious after comments made by Roger Federer in the previous day’s media conference Nick Kyrgios has denied remarks he made in support of unvaccinated players was anti-vax. He also…
“I am grateful for the comments that were made in the New York Times about the Cowardcrawler’s use of the word ‘coward.’ I respect the comments of other people,” Ms. Hardwick responded. She claimed…