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" A new trend in Japan's hard-charging, competitive office culture: reserving the nap room for a 30-

" The British hit show Downton Abbey, which traces the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and

" A company offering unlimited movies in theaters for just $10 a month has gone out of business, but

" Abuse of legal and illegal opioids has become a public health crisis in the United States; overdos

" Today we present the latest news on five previous topics: French President Emmanuel Macron has rec

" Over 450 people, mostly young, have fallen ill with lung disease after using electronic cigarettes

" US President Donald Trump suggested he would be interested in buying the world's largest island. A

" Don't look now, but the mustache is making a comeback. If the 1990s were about goatees and the 200

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" Sending money via money-transfer agents or even large banks is slow and expensive. To make a trans

" A sharp increase in the number and scale of forest fires in the Amazon is threatening the world's

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" Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat are two companies chasing a new trend: veggie burgers that taste

" The Golden Gate Bridge is a marvel of engineering and the symbol of San Francisco, but it is also

" Colombian Egan Bernal became the first cyclist from Latin America, and the youngest in over 110 ye

" Protests in Hong Kong continue to escalate as they enter their tenth week. What started as a prote

" Research has shown that having more money equals more happiness, but with some major exceptions. F

" Is it possible to measure happiness? Scientists have tried various methods, but the most reliable

" A decades-old mystery of a missing girl took a surprising turn after thousands of unidentified bon

" João Gilberto, the Brazilian singer who created the ""bossa nova"" musical style in the 1950s, die