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Roman Holiday is one of the most beloved and classic romantic comedies of all time. These are some of its behind the scenes stories!

Adam MacLeod’s new book, “The Age of Selfies,” represents a worthy contribution to the intellectual retracing of our steps that we must pursue if we hope to restore reason and civility to our public discourse. Our freedom and social tranquility depend on a renewed seriousness about natural law and objective moral truth.

The Rugby Championship has been thrown into chaos with news the world champions South Africa officially withdrawing from the tournament.

IMDb ranks every season finales of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Find out how your favorite season finale ranks and which ones are ranked lower.

Washington has added the Iranian ambassador to Iraq to its sanctions blacklist, claiming he works for an elite military unit it has deemed a terrorist cell, as well as three groups it accused of “sowing discord” in the 2020 race.
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Iran hackers linked to threatening emails. Alabama won't have curbside voting. More will vote before Election Day than on Election Day. Latest news.

Mindy Kaling may be best known for The Office but she has a number of great movies and shows. These are her best, according to IMDb.

By Joanna Plucinska and Alicja Ptak WARSAW (Reuters) - Protests gathered across Poland after the Constitutional Tribunal ruled on Thursday that abortion due to foetal defects was unconstitutional,

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The challenges facing the economy are well known, but new companies continue to form. Thursday night, some Edmonton entrepreneurs are getting set to promote their ideas – some which could turn into the next big thing and bring some new prosperity. Vinesh Pratap reports.

Funnyman Will Ferrell makes audiences laugh in all his roles, with Ron Burgundy as his most iconic. But the anchorman has some stiff competition.

Today's voter suppression often takes the form of purging eligible voters from the rolls, cutting back early and absentee voting, closing polling places, and using strict voter ID requirements -- disenfranchising voters of color at every turn.

FAA's STEM Aviation and Space Education Airport Design Challenge now open for enrollment through Oct. 25, 2020.

Table of contents from London Review of Books Vol. 42 No. 21 (Friday 23 October 2020)

The letters page from London Review of Books Vol. 42 No. 21 (Friday 23 October 2020)

One​ of the puzzling things about feminism is that it can be confused with being self-centred. If it’s good for me, a woman might say of something she wants to do –...

How best to touch these woody objects or a person?     She batted together the parts of the sycamore stick she had broken in two and then made of them the self-important capital...

He dis­liked autograph-hounds and being ident­ified wherever he went – but he would have been lost without these things. When a passer­by told him he didn’t look like Cary Grant, he replied that no­body did – he had spent a lifetime honing that look.

Most photographs​ of Aby Warburg, who was born in Hamburg in 1866, the eldest son of a Jewish banking dynasty, show a melancholy man, gaze withdrawn or staring into the distance. In others, we...

‘Since this trouble with my back, I’ve read all the detective stories there ever were, I should think,’ a character says in Agatha Christie’s Peril at End House....

Fifteenth-century tracts instructed the imperilled soul to repent, make a good confession and detach from worldly goods, including wife and children. But the idea of dying as an art points to something even more essential: it is a work to be accomplished, not merely a fate to be endured. Dying can be done well or badly, and the only way to assure salvation is to do it well.

Most climate dystopias are set in this temporal and spatial landscape: well into the obliterated future. The terrible thing has happened, and the details of how we got there are unimport­ant, as are the bigger questions about com­plicity and our responsibilities to others. The difficulties of survival expand to fill the vacuum left by society and government and elections. The setting of Diane Cook’s first novel is unusual in this re­spect.

Suha Ahmad​ lives on the outskirts of the port city of Tartus in north-west Syria. Her husband was killed in March while fighting on the government side in the war, her mother and father are...