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How 250,000 refugees were rescued in Turkey

Friday, 3 July 2015, 14:58 Last update: about 11 years ago

It reads like a story drawn from contemporary headlines: U.S. Navy warships deployed to the Middle East; ISIS-like beheadings and other atrocities targeted at Christians; fears in Washington about...

In 'Keepers,' film critic revisits a lifetime at the movies

Thursday, 2 July 2015, 14:56 Last update: about 11 years ago

A theater up the street asks its employees to include the title of a favorite movie on their nametags. The choices of these teenagers and twentysomethings can be anything from "Fast and Furious 5" or...

Lots of twists and turns in 'The President's Shadow'

Wednesday, 1 July 2015, 14:53 Last update: about 11 years ago

A visit to the Rose Garden by the first lady opens "The President's Shadow," the latest historical thriller from Brad Meltzer, and the twists and turns that follow will keep even the most jaded reader...

Reliving migration that helped settle America's West

Tuesday, 30 June 2015, 14:44 Last update: about 11 years ago

The "lunatic notion" to attempt a 21st-century journey in a mule-drawn covered wagon along the historic Oregon Trail may have been embedded in Rinker Buck's DNA. After all, it was a longer, more...

New Zealand artist honoured at festive Hollywood Gala

Tuesday, 23 June 2015, 11:37 Last update: about 11 years ago

Amit Dutta of Wellington, New Zealand and a De La Salle College graduate was honored Sunday night, April 12, at the 31st Annual L. Ron Hubbard Achievement awards at the prestigious Wilshire Ebell...

Introducing Malta: A City State, complete and fragile

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:08 Last update: about 11 years ago Oliver Friggieri

An introduction to the island The newcomer can immediately discover the real essence of that stretch of land permanently lurking alone, in apparent oblivion of all, in the middle of the...

Xbihat fuq it-Tila

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:06 Last update: about 11 years ago

Horizons Communications has published another book written by Salv Sammut, Xbihat fuq it-Tila (Figures in a Landscape). The title instantly implies an element of symbolism and metaphor of imagined...

Alexandra

Monday, 22 June 2015, 15:06 Last update: about 11 years ago

Milenco had the world in his hands. He was the heir of Barcellon's Diego Garcia Department Stores, one of the biggest in the whole of Spain.  He was filthy rich. Yet life wasn't a picnic. In fact...

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