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Brazil’s embattled ex-president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who is currently serving a jail sentence

A new study published in The Lancet medical journal refutes the myth that having a drink a day is he

The Big Bang Theory, the longest-running comedy on television and the number-one show in the United

Though the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union over two years ago, there are still majo

Aretha Franklin, a musician whose songs combined themes of feminism, religion, the civil rights move

Some brave early-adopters have surgically implanted a microchip in their hands, and are using it to

A ground employee at the Seattle airport stole an empty airplane, took off, flew it for an hour, and

A plane crashed shortly after taking off from the city of Durango, Mexico, but all 103 people on boa

The McDonald’s Monopoly game—the fast-food chain’s most popular promotion—was scammed for over ten y

The government of Brazil released a video of a lone indigenous man surviving in the Brazilian state

Greece faced its most devastating tragedy in over a decade when a wildfire swept through a seaside t

Recent studies by music streaming services Deezer and Spotify have found that most people reach an a

Rome is building a new subway and archaeologists keep finding hidden treasures buried deep beneath t

Several companies are developing robots to automatically prepare restaurant meals. One California re

The movement to eliminate plastic straws is spreading: the UK government plans to ban them and Starb

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist leader who twice lost presidential races in Mexico, swept to

In a high-scoring and at times odd final, France defeated Croatia 4-2 to win its second World Cup in

Twelve boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach were rescued from a cave in northern Thailand after f

As part of Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman’s Vision 2030, the government of Saudi Arabia began issu

The final four teams are set: they are France and Belgium, who face off on Tuesday, and Croatia and