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“I was a rebel,” says Jiliane Gracie, whose father once beat her with a frying pan. “I wasn’t afraid to tell my father it was going to get even worse if he did not…
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“I was a rebel,” says Jiliane Gracie, whose father once beat her with a frying pan. “I wasn’t afraid to tell my father it was going to get even worse if he did not…
Written by By Sophie Dickens, CNN Influenza, whooping cough and measles have reached historic highs in the US so far this year, and public health officials say we could be in for a long…
Written by Daniel Bennett, CNN To hear this Airbus A340 tell it, it might have looked like something out of “Star Wars” or a scene from “The Three Musketeers.” “I found myself here today,…
OAKLAND, CA – APRIL 12: A visitor takes photographs of Civil War relics at the Victorian Heritage Museum in Oakland, California on April 12, 2013. The museum opened in 2009 and features some 250…
Written by Beth Ferguson, CNN When Thierry Escalante was a student, he watched the 1975 film “Dog Day Afternoon,” which follows an older bank robber who injures a bank manager and is arrested. Escalante…
Darktrace and Johnson Matthey were among five technology companies removed from the FTSE 100 on Sunday because of concerns over accounting practices and a corporate governance issue, according to a report in The Guardian….
Nigeria’s Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola recently sent a legal warning to CNN about his claims on the corruption allegations against President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. But as the Guardian reports, Fashola…
I think nature is divine, and art owes it to nature to extend transcendental sources of inspiration. — Smaug the Dragon Flowering in the tranquil serenity of the Owsley State Forest, recently I happened…
The toy store Toys ‘R’ Us is opening a new store… again The toys are back. Or will they be? Toys ‘R’ Us, which has gone into liquidation in the US, Europe and Australia,…
Despite ongoing public concerns about the safety of food and water, scientific credibility and trust is rising in many countries around the world, according to the annual science and the media survey released this…