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TV host Anthony Bourdain and fashion pioneer Kate Spade took their own lives this month—Spade in New

Lionel Messi has been but a bystander in this World Cup as Argentina fought Iceland to a draw and fe

Andres Manuel Lopes Obrador, a leftist candidate pledging to fight corruption and revive the agricul

Juul, the most popular brand of e-cigarettes, was designed to help smokers quit by giving them the n

The world’s most anticipated sporting competition, FIFA’s World Cup, starts today with a match betwe

Hurricane Maria was one of the worst natural disasters to hit the United States, but the true human

They are calling him ‘Le Spiderman’: A 22-year-old immigrant from Mali climbed the side of a Paris a

A group of artists called the Night Lords has turned vacant walls into graffiti murals of The Simpso

Gareth Bale scored two goals as a substitute and Karim Benzema scored an embarrassing goal against L

On Plain English’s 50th episode: Captain Liu Chuanjian landed a Sichuan Airlines flight safely after

Prince Harry, the grandson of Queen Elizabeth II of England, married American actress Meghan Markle

The last home-grown terrorist organization in Europe officially disbanded. The Basque country’s ETA,

Electric scooters are taking over the streets in some American cities, including San Francisco. New

Nazaré, Portugal, attracts surfers and observers from around the world for its world-class surfing w

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii is erupting and sending lava flowing through residential areas, puttin

Eighty years ago, the original Superman cartoon was published in issue #1 of Action Comics—and the m

Leaders of North and South Korea met in a historic one-day summit at the border of their two countri

Raúl Castro will formally step aside as Cuba’s president and Miguel Díaz-Canel, the vice president,

The music world was shocked at the news that Swedish DJ Avicii, known for his high-energy concerts,

The US government released a 90-page memo detailing much of the evidence they plan to use in the tri