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Being pretty is a major disaster for women,’ Diana Melly once told a friend, and beauty certainly had a hand in ...

Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

When Iman shows his wife, Najmeh, his new gun, it comes with the news that he’s been promoted to the post of investigating prosecutor in Iran’s judiciary. He needs the gun for security, he says. Yet ...

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Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

That is pure fiction.’ Los Angeles takes most of its water not from the delta but from the Owens Valley (Payahuunadü, the ...

The ceasefire should mark a pivotal moment rather than a temporary pause, a chance to stop the devastation and create a foundation for enduring justice. As the slow and expensive work of rebuilding ...

Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo boundaries. But in the event, Hamas was useful to Israel's larger strategy of ...