The New Guard

Australia is experiencing its most raucous federal elections in years as outsiders seemed poised to disrupt the placid pace of leaders in Canberra after polls close on May 21. Voters in North Sydney, a wealthy, multicultural district of the continent-country’s largest city, usually cast ballots for...

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Prisoner Games

Iran is reviewing a request to delay the execution of an Iranian-born Swedish academic convicted of espionage in a case that has garnered international condemnation, the Washington Post reported Thursday. The case is related to Ahmadreza Jalali, a disaster-medicine doctor who was detained while traveling to...

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The Tusk Dilemma

Zimbabwe is proposing to sell its stockpile of seized ivory to gather funds needed for the conservation of its rapidly increasing elephant population, the Associated Press reported. Wildlife officials in the central African nation appealed to foreign diplomats and the international community to support the sale...

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Among Saints

Pope Francis this week canonized an 18th-century Indian convert to Christianity who fought for equality for the lower classes, and made him the first layman in India to be bestowed with sainthood, the National reported. Devasahayam – also known as Lazarus – joins a group of...

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Doh

People will immediately try to correct themselves whenever they have an “oops” or “doh” moment. Scientists call this performance monitoring, which they describe as the brain’s way of informing us that we made a mistake. Recently, a research team finally discovered the precise location of these neurons...

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