The four-time World Cup winners were knocked out on penalties by Paraguay in the round of 32, to suffer another embarrassing ...

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In 1954, the USPS was looking for innovative ways to process the 54 billion items mailed. National Geographic traveled to ...

Mike O’Brien has a couple of memorable stories stretching from early in his childhood to just a month or so ago that ...

How the aftershocks of an 1812 quake that hit Venezuela changed the world. On June 24, Venezuelans were struck by two powerful, back-to-back earthquakes, each measuring more than seven points on the ...

Some people walk into your life for thirty seconds and leave something that stays forever. They don’t know your name. They ...

Family doesn’t always get it right. But when it does, it heals something words can’t reach. These real moments of compassion, ...

In this evocative Kashmir diary, the writer revisits a moonlit valley that recalls classic Hindi films yet carries fresh, ...

Michael Longley, who was all too familiar with protracted writer’s block, often spoke of precariousness in the ...

Arsenal were the best team in the country last season, always a step ahead of Manchester City throughout a gripping title ...

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