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A monstrous tornado at least 800 meters wide roared through the suburbs of Oklahoma City on Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds of up to 320 kph. At least 91 ...
If you work in an office, you probably spend a fair part of your time sitting at a desk, which, of course, isn’t very healthy. To combat that the Pomodoro technique recommends that you work in intervals with regular breaks — for example, 25 ...
“I was stopped by two men in a government-registered vehicle, blindfolded and dragged off the street. They took me away to a house in a place I did not know. I was forced into a room with blood all over the walls and floor, ...
"Outsider art" is relatively new in Japan and, as a genre, works made by self-taught Japanese artists are still not very well known on the category-delineating, label-loving international art scene.
After all these years, Rafael Nadal still knows how to dominate Roger Federer. In the 30th meeting between the two tennis greats, Nadal controlled the final from start to finish to win 6-1, 6-3 Sunday for his seventh Italian Open title. “Rafa was just ...
Mount Fuji has become far more visible from Tokyo than half a century ago, possibly because the air around the capital has become cleaner and drier, a long-term survey by schools in Tokyo says. Using a fixed point in the city of Musashino, western ...
A crested ibis chick has hatched in the wild for the second year in a row, the Environment Ministry said. Ministry officials said Sunday they confirmed via video footage that a pair of crested ibises on Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, had fed a chick ...
Perched on a hill by the iron ore mine it was once built around, the sleepy northern Swedish town of Kiruna is in the process of reinventing itself. It has little choice: In four years, it will have been moved somewhere else. At the ...