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Service dogs provide valuable assistance to people in need, be that through guiding someone with a visual impairment or helping someone who requires emotional support. Most people know as adorable as these dogs are, you're never supposed to pet them or distract…

Audrey Hepburn (born Audrey Kathleen Ruston; 4 May 1929 – 20 January 1993) was a British actress and humanitarian. Recognised as both a film and fashion icon, she was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend from the…

If he could bottle the sound, he would. In his backyard music studio in Durham, Matthew Busch lifts his saxophone to his lips, takes a breath, and plays four languid notes. He ascends from an E to an A, then plays up an octave, holding each note for four…

About a quarter of the world’s nations drive on the left side of the road, Japan being one of them. But why do they drive on the left side when so many other countries drive on the right? Have they always used the left side of the road?

African global initiative against desertification in Africa

Officials seize 2,000 "counterfeit Apple" products despite clear branding from competitor OnePlus.

1995-02-28 04:00:00 PDT Izmir, Turkey -- A Turkish mayor who doesn't like Senate majority...

Beatles fans have already known that Paul and John had "wanking sessions" together because, apparently, neither of them could shut up about it.

Coca-Cola -- the world's ubiquitous brown fizzy drink -- is staying afloat as the soda market shrinks, and many point to a marketing strategy around the so-called "secret recipe" as key to its resilience in a struggling industry.

Hong Kong actor

the-grassmarket.com the ultimate guide to the Grassmarket. All the History, People, Photos and Information. Lists every shop, close and places of interest, places to eat and places to stay in the world's ultimate festival city

the outlawing of the consumption, sale, production etc. of alcohol

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (/kroʊˈpɒtkɪn/; Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин Russian pronunciation: [ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ krɐˈpotkʲɪn]; 9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist, socialist, revolutionary, economist, sociologist, historian…

Can a new generation of companies finally normalize mixology in microgravity?

There’s no downsizing in this pulverising set of audience-chosen tracks performed in an intimate space as they would be at Wembley Stadium

American serial killer and serial rapist

Nobleman, general, satrap and king

American actor