There’s a scene in the Twin Peaks pilot that starts with the normal, humdrum, boring rhythms of everyday life. We’re in a high school, where a schoolgirl sneaks a smoke, a boy is called to the ...

A months-long standoff between South African authorities and illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in the town of Stilfontein ended this week with at least 78 people killed – likely from ...

Around 150 years later, the historic Ozaukee County shipwreck site is receiving local and national recognition, according to a Jan. 15 news release from the Wisconsin Historical Society.

While banks use the Fed's actions as a guide for what they offer savers, they don't need to follow those actions directly. And if they start to think that another interest rate cut is imminent ...

The South African Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) has castigated government for the agonizing death of more than 50 miners at Stilfontein, North West, whose bodies have now been extracted ...

Coincidentally, later that day, Twitter user @backwoodbuddha [2] posted a screenshot of a person sending her that exact message, gaining over 13,000 retweets and 66,000 likes (shown below, left). In ...

It notted that the firm no longer has expedition plans to the shipwreck that could break federal law. The scuttling of the government's latest legal battle isn't necessarily the end of RMS Titanic ...

The famous king of Babylon Nebuchadnezzar II was lately enthroned when a group of Phoenician sailors watched their boat sink in shallow water off the coast of Spain. Now, that very boat is the ...

Monty Don has revealed he and his wife were trapped in their Gardeners’ World home earlier this week because of flooding. The 69-year-old veteran broadcaster said the increasingly frequent ...

Monty Don, the horticulturalist, broadcaster and much-loved Gardeners’ World presenter has revealed a little-known truth about King Charles' most private royal residence, Birkhall. In ...

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