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1.~Taylor Swift~ Last month, American singer, Taylor Swift, has broken her years of political silence to endorse on Instagram two ...
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1. It is almost a year since revelations emerged about the behaviour of Harvey Weinstein, a film-studio boss charged with ...
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1.~Brexit festival~ Last month, Theresa May’s announcement that the government is proposing to hold a Festival of Brexit Britain - ...
1.~Queen of Sweden~ An 8-year-old girl found a pre-Viking-era sword in Lake Vidostern, around 250 miles south of Stockholm, while swimming with ...
1. Beijing — The shelves of Beijing’s luxury supermarkets are crammed with familiar products that American expatriates cannot seem to ...
1.~Matilda’s new adventures~ For the 30th anniversary of the publication of the children’s book Matilda, Quentin Blake – who illustrated ...
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1. It begins with the Greek myth of Europa and the bull carved in stone and it ends with the ...
1. Farmers in Mexico have accused Volkswagen of ruining their crops by installing “hail cannons”, which fire shockwaves into the ...
1. On 8 October, U.S. President Donald Trump issued a proclamation declaring it was Columbus Day. Although Columbus Day has ...