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A timeline of major events in the life of former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who has died at age 91:
March 2, 1931: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev born in Privolnoye in southern R
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Leaving your comfort zone is very difficult and sometimes painful. In my book, DARE, I have a chapter, “Dare to leave your comfort zone” but today I’m not going to quote from my book, but from a story, po-
Kelvin Chan The Associated Press Inflation in the European countries using the euro currency hit another record in August, fueled by soaring energy prices mainly driven by Russia’s war in Ukrain
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Seth Borenstein and Sibi Arasu The Associated Press The familiar ingredients of a warming world were in place: searing temperatures, hotter air holding more moisture, extreme weather getting wilder, m
A few years ago an acquaintance of mine called me and talked about some work he wanted done with a religious organization, “ Is it all above board?” I asked suspiciously.“Maybe a few things are a little i
Danica Kirka The Associated Press Above all, there was shock. That’s the word people use when they remember Princess Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago this week. The woman
Very often I sit at home and watch a good Hindi movie. I find nothing has changed in the past few decades; in all the movies the father may be a strict man, maybe a shrewd businessman, maybe hard hearted and ti-
Habitat degradation, insufficient food and water and climate change have led to a decline in the number of North American monarch butterflies, which is now on the IUCN’s Red List. (Shutterstock) Co
How often we pray for an easy path, an easy life without problems and worries, but have we ever thought that so many of the difficult things we go through are what puts spice into our earthly lives? That what w-
Thalif Deen Inter Press Service The ominous warnings keep coming non-stop: some of the world’s developing nations, mostly in Africa and Asia, are heading towards mass hunger and starvation. T
Indian cricket, I had heard a few years ago, was against modern technology that would reduce human error when it comes to umpiring decisions! Howzat! They would prefer the men in white coats to remain on the fi-
Fabiano Maisonnave The Associated Press An illegal dirt road ripping through protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon is now just a few miles shy of connecting two of the worst areas of deforestation i
Fabiano Maisonnave The Associated Press In the Brazilian Amazon these days, it’s nearly impossible to run for office talking up the environment. More common is a scene like this: A candidate for Co
Very often I meet people who tell me, “If I wasn’t sickly, I would have done well in life!”Or it could be, “I wish I was beautiful then I would have succeeded in whatever I put my hands too!”Or, “Do-
Philip Marcelo The Associated Press Asa Peters marched into a thicket of Japanese knotweed in the woods of coastal Massachusetts this month and began steadily hacking the towering, dense vegetation do
Many decades ago my father, a businessman, decided to start exporting handicrafts to the USA. He went to the emporiums and shops which had the items, found out who the people were who were making it, and sent s
Review by Kevileno Sakhrie “Each year, Ukepenuopfü weeps, her tears bathing the skies, rushing down the mountain and flooding the plains. Each year, her beloved soaks in these tears and reme-
Ben Saul, University of Sydney “Strategic ambiguity” – the policy that has underpinned the West’s defence of Taiwan for half a century or more – rests on another ambiguity: Taiw
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Müzitalü Lohe, B.A. 5th Semester, Department of English, Modern College, Kohima Body Shaming has become a common thing which affects the lives of many young people today. Receiving unfavourable r
We are a noisy people.I remember going down to another city for a wedding, and staying with a friend, who had given me the best room in the house. A room with a sit out on the terrace with even a little waterfa
