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Richard HeathcoteGetty Images Ethiopia’s Shura Katata beat two other athletes to win Sunday’s London Marathon at 2:05:41. Defending champion and world record holder Eliad Kipchog had the toughest race of his career, finishing eighth at 2:06:49. Behind Katata, Kenya’s Vincent Kipchumba was second at 2:05:42, and Ethiopia’s Cice Lemma was …

Did you know that in Japan the circle button is used to confirm menu items and the X button is used to cancel? While some early PS1 titles used the same logic in the West, Sony eventually normalized the circle to use X to confirm and cancel, but until then …

Once a person becomes ill with coronavirus there is no guarantee that they will not contract it again, new research suggests. While SARS-Cavi-2 is the coronavirus that is the focus of the current world, there are many others we have known for decades who are not only known to infect …

On a recent cloudy morning in Wolverhampton, England, Wesley Appia was in his bedroom reviewing flight plans for the Canary Islands, looking for R&B playlists and giving “good wishes to his passengers”. Epiphia, 20, is an accounting and finance student at the University of Warwick, but is also an aspiring …

S.Delivering the truth to power has always been a daunting and risky business, as Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny recently recalled after being rescued from a poisoning plot that was told by the Kremlin. Countless Kurdish activists have been jailed for challenging Turkey’s modern-day sultan. In Iran, human rights lawyer …