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The Spelling Bee finals had parents, teachers and other students on the edge of their seats as they completed the spelling book. The top five students were an interesting mix as there were two visually impaired students, as well as two sisters who...

On her visit to Jamaica, Princess Royal was presented with The Keys to the City. She was praised for her interest and her actions towards improving the lives of youth. In her address, she pledged to continue her work with the younger generation....

The nation's top student-athletes were put on show at the the 54th annual inter-school championships. It was a great display of talent from schools right across the country. Neville Myton of Excelsior was among the favourites and fastest of the...

Experts say that many suffer from coulrophobia – a fear of the face-painted entertainers – as clowns do not look human and their "exaggerated facial features convey a direct sense of threat". Researchers at the University of...

NEW YORK CITY: The world is becoming accustomed to the drip-drip of catastrophic headlines following each new climate-driven disaster. Increasingly frequent and severe heatwaves are causing wildfires in California and widespread coral die-offs in...

ATLANTA: The US intelligence community’s annual threat assessment for 2023 certainly cannot be faulted for having a narrow focus or Pollyanna perspective. From a rising China, Russian aggression, and Iran’s nuclear ambitions to climate...

LONDON: Disruption is coming to the agriculture sector. Around the world, livestock farmers are leaving the land, policymakers are targeting the harmful environmental and social effects of industrial meat production, and consumers are shifting away...

WASHINGTON, DC: The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in northern California and Signature Bank in New York are the largest bank busts since 2008. Regional and midsized bank stocks have tanked, and depositors and businesses are worried about...

NEW YORK: One advantage that historians have over journalists concerns time, not so much in the sense that they are free from urgent deadlines, but that they have the deeper perspective conferred by the years – or decades – between...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then it is likely the cartoonist's pen, chock full of underlying meaning and different ways of seeing an issue, may be worth so many more.  Take a look at this week past's line-up of cartoons as...
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