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Grand angle - Another school shooting - another week of funerals

1. In this picture, crosses adorn a makeshift memorial for the young victims of the shooting at Robb Elementary School ...

On parle d'eux

1.~Moses Ingram Obi-Wan Kenobi actor, Moses Ingram, revealed she has received “hundreds” of racist messages since appearing in the ...

Baz Luhrmann turns focus to Elvis

1. What do you get if you cross an Australian ballroom dancing teacher with the owner of a little cinema? ...

Focus

1.~The life of Elvis Presley Musician and actor, Elvis Presley, rose to fame in the mid-1950s—on the radio, TV and ...

How the King of Rock ’n’ Roll Still Makes Australia Sing

1. The Elvis Presley from Japan bowed with quiet respect. Then he tore into a rendition of “Burning Love” that ...

How Women Sports Teams Got Their Start

1. In 1922, Sybil Bauer, a student at Northwestern University, swam the 440-yard backstroke in just under 6 minutes and ...

Zoom sur Serena Williams

1.~Prodigious child Serena Williams was born on 26 September 1981, in Saginaw, Michigan, to Richard Williams and Oracene Price. ...

U.S. Gun Production Triples Since 2000, Fueled by Handgun Purchases

1. The United States is in the middle of a great gun-buying boom that shows no sign of letting up ...

The coming food catastrophe

1. By invading Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will destroy the lives of people far from the battlefield—and on a scale even ...

Sur le vif

1.~Drink coffee, live longer Previous studies have suggested that drinking coffee may be beneficial to health, with a lower risk ...

Wheat Can’t Catch a Break Right Now

1. For the past few days, a heat wave of mind-boggling scale and intensity has gripped South Asia. More than ...

À 360

1.~Only yes means yes Spain’s parliament has approved a bill that makes consent a key determinant in sexual assault ...

Local squeezebox company weathers a century of accordion ups and downs

1. Joe Petosa Jr. isn't a particularly talkative guy — until you ask him about accordions. Then you might as ...

Artist pilloried after creating half-horse, half-man sculpture

1. In Irish mythology, a púca is a mischievous, shapeshifting spirit that can take the form of a horse and ...

Les échos

1.~Eurovision trophy sold to buy drones Kalush Orchestra, the Ukrainian band which won this year's Eurovision Song Contest, sold their trophy ...

Creating a buzz: These bats pretend to be bees to seem more dangerous

1. Sometimes you have to fake it until you make it. Well, at least for some animals, you have to pretend ...

Le dessin

1.~Student debt : to cancel or not to cancel ? President Joe Biden is considering canceling some federal student loan debt. But the ...