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Too many historians have sought to “normalise” Wilhelmine Germany, ignoring the ideological and cultural pathologies an earlier generation were prepared to confront. Today -- July 28, the 100th anniversary of the Great War's eruption -- that combination of pious duty and conscienceless brutality...

The Royal British Legion is working with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission to keep alive the memory of those who fell in the First World War, for future generations. We would like every single man and woman from across the Commonwealth who fell to be individually commemorated by those alive...

The jumpy, mostly ill-trained soldiers stood at the ready by their machine guns. They looked down from their posts on top of the low buildings at the crowd of striking banana workers and their wives and children in the main square. Soon the crowd was ordered to disperse. Five minutes passed...

The announcement comes the day after it emerged that the number of women living in England and Wales who have been subjected to FGM is twice as high as previously thought. A new study reveals more than 137,000 women in England and Wales are living with the consequences of FGM. The number has...

Lifetime dumps funeral parlor reality show after owners are charged with corpse abuse ... TV show on Fort Worth mortuary canceled after bodies found | Crime and Safety | News fro...

Motorcyclist crashes after giving and interview about crashes - YouTube

India's Rural Development Ministry has decided to try to tackle two problems at the same time: Youth unemployment and bad air quality. It has unveiled a plan to hire youths - potentially up to 300,000 - to plant 2 billion trees along the country's highways. “The length of National Highways in...

If you haven't been following the Market Basket story over the past week, it's worth giving some attention: Thousands of supermarket workers and managers have been taking action—serious action—over the ouster of their company's longtime CEO. Really. Market Basket CEO Arthur T. Demoulas was...

The Belgian League Against Anti-Semitism, or LBCA, filed the complaint Wednesday against the parties responsible for hanging a Turkish- and French-language sign at a cafe in Saint-Nicolas, a town located just east of the southern city of Liege. The Turkish text reads: “Dogs are allowed in this...

As a precautionary measure after a man died of bubonic plague last week, a small city in China is in lockdown and 151 individuals have been placed in quarantine, the Guardian reports. According to China Central Television (CCTV), the 38-year-old man died from the disease last Wednesday which...

I have been watching this series for some weeks on TVO which is for Ontario only but I checked their website and the videos are available for those interested. Someone colourized these rare views...... "Apocalypse" is a monumental five-part miniseries culled from more than 500 hours of...

We’ve delved into the Telegraph’s archives and read the newspapers of 1914. They show just how unaware we were of the horrors ahead. This is the life Britain unwittingly left behind. Life on the eve of war

After a long struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder, a Mountie who witnessed the beheading of a Greyhound bus passenger has taken his own life. A family member has confirmed that recently-retired RCMP corporal Ken Barker died by suicide last weekend. A total of 13 Canadian first...

It's a feeling many keen readers have had - finding a library book that's past its return-by date and knowing there will be a penalty to pay for forgetfulness. But for one man that feeling must have stirred a deep sense of embarrassment, because the compensation he voluntarily offered was way...

Alabama family finds deflated balloons with engagement ring and wedding band attached in her backyard. She is looking for the source. http://www.al.com/news/tuscaloosa/index.ssf/2014/07/diamonds_in_the_sky_alabama_fa.html Related...........?

Right now, in Canada, there's a battle going on for its citizens' genes, as health insurance companies are using genome sequencing to assess risk (read: increase rates) for patients who are predisposed to certain diseases. The country's privacy commissioner issued a policy statement last week...

McNally High School in Edmonton, Canada provided students with an abstinence-only sex education workshop that rubbed 18-year-old Emily Dawson the wrong way — to the point of her filing a human rights complaint over it. The complaint states that the class, which is taught by the Edmonton...