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The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in ...

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Hence the Trembita, which is one of several missile projects the country hopes will ignite a resurgence in its domestic ...

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in ...

To solve it, take the leading letter of ‘the’ (T) and put it on another word for a ‘crime’ (HEIST). Insert the letter at the ...

At the bottom of the chart are the fundamental particles—quarks, bosons (eg Higgs, w +, w -, z ), protons, neutrons, ...

Yet the axolotl has become an improbable global megastar. Shops are crowded with cuddly axolotls. Toy axolotls fall out of ...

The statues of Pushkin and Babel have prompted the biggest controversies because their writing is so central to the myth of ...

It is unlikely that most of these will be watched again and again, year after year; the best festive films, however, are ...