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Indigenous wildlife officials in Australia have found new evidence of one of the countrys rarest and most mysterious birds. It is called the night parrot. The bird was thought to be extinct until a sighting in 2013. There have been very few sightings...

Savannah College of Art and Design, or SCAD, is a private university in the American state of Georgia. In 2003, Sarah Luthans believed it would be the best place for her to study painting. But after two years there, Luthans found she wanted more crea...

00:00:02 OPRAH WINFREY: Hattie Mae, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it. 00:00:08 ROGER BANNISTER: If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another chance...

A group of 55 non-governmental organizations published a letter Monday calling for a new Paris Peace Conference because of a severe deterioration in the state of human rights and democracy in Cambodia. The letter was released on the 26th anniversary...

Spain Dismisses Catalonia Government after Independence Declaration Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has dismissed Catalonias government and called for a new election. The move came shortly after Catalonias parliament passed a measure declaring i...

'The Florida Project' Explores the Lives of Poor Kids in Disney's Shadow Millions of children dream of going to Disney World, the most famous theme park in America. Families travel to the Orlando, Florida site from all around the United States and th...

Restless, always moving, forever passing like time itself, are most of the people who live in these old red houses. This is on New Yorks West Side. The people are homeless, yet they have a hundred homes. They go from furnished room to furnished room....

Pope Francis Makes Phone Call to Outer Space Here's What's Trending Today... Pope Francis is making his first telephone call above the earth -- and into space. 教宗方济各首次在地球上同太空通话。 On Thursday, the pope called the Inter...

Sierra Leone to Sell Multi-million Dollar Diamond to Help Poor Sierra Leone hopes to raise millions of dollars for development projects by selling a large uncut diamond. It is believed to be one of the largest diamonds in the world. The public sale w...

Police, Protestors Clash in Kenyas Election On Thursday, Kenyan police fired bullets and tear gas at stone-throwing protesters who were against a repeat of the countrys disputed presidential election. In Kenyas third largest city, Kisumu, gunfire kil...

Mentally Disabled Man Faces Expulsion from US Guillermo Peralta Martinez does not know how old he is or where he was born. He does not even know his mothers name. He also does not know if he is a legal resident of the United States. Martinez appears...

Verbs and Infinitives in Everyday Speech The 1977 movie Star Wars is an American classic, with many memorable lines and characters. At one point in the film, the character C-3PO says the following words: We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in...

Tom Costello Jr. was once afraid of homeless Americans. I was so afraid that if I saw a homeless person walking down the street, Id cross the street, he said. That changed seven years ago after his wife, a volunteer at a homeless shelter, persuaded h...

Five airline companies plan to question all passengers on flights going to the United States starting Thursday. 五家航空公司计划从周四开始对所有前往美国的乘客进行提问。 The companies are beginning the security interviews a...

Iraqi Kurds offered on Wednesday to suspend the results of an independence vote and to start talks with the government in Baghdad. However, an Iraqi military spokesman suggested that, regardless of talks, an offensive would continue to capture territ...