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My Childhood Was Filled With Functional, Yet Astonishing Pottery

During my childhood, when I lived in Karachi, the then-capital city of Pakistan, every household had an open area at its centre called “sahen.” This was surrounded by a boundary wall but had no rooftop. The sahen served as a multi-purpose area for the entire family. In the morning the ladies of the house would […]

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Vietnamese defendant in Kim Jong Nam trial may walk free next month after plea deal

A Vietnamese woman accused of assassinating Kim Jong-un’s half-brother pled guilty to a lesser charge on Monday and may now be freed in early May.  Doan Thi Huong, 29, had been facing the death penalty after being charged with the murder of Kim Jong Nam, 45, who died in February 2017 after the Vietnamese woman […]

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Fortnite: Orange Shirt Kid’s Mom Joins Ranks of People Suing Epic Over Dances

Rachel McCumbers, the mother of a young Fortnite player who submitted a dance for Epic’s Boogie Down competition last year, is now suing the developer for including her son’s dance in the game. Orange Shirt Kid, as he became known on the internet, didn’t actually win the contest, but placed 23rd in the list of […]

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Ohio State’s Prantl, Baylor’s Stearns named Louisville Slugger/NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Ohio State’s Cammi Prantl and Baylor’s Heather Stearns were selected the Louisville/Slugger NFCA Division I National Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, for games play Feb. 22-28, announced the Association on Tuesday afternoon. Swinging a red-hot bat, Prantl hit .786 and was retired just three times as she helped the Buckeyes (9-4) […]

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8 Cool Canadians Share Their Favourite Christmas Holiday Traditions

Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, the end of December is a time best spent at home with family, eating cookies and arguing over whether anyone should bother covering Mariah Carey’s classic, “All I Want For Christmas Is You.” (The answer, of course, is no.) We asked a few well-known Canadians what their favourite holiday […]

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Star Wars: Episode IX: Carrie Fisher’s Brother ‘Thrilled’ With Leia Footage

According to Todd Fisher, brother of the late Carrie Fisher, the unused footage of Leia Organa from Star Wars: The Force Awakens that will potentially be used in Star Wars: Episode IX is substantial and looks “like it was shot yesterday.” During an interview on Good Morning America, Todd said that this footage is not […]

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New Zealand terrorist Brenton Tarrant ‘visited’ Britain during ‘radicalisation tour’

The terrorist who led an attack in which 50 people were gunned down in two mosques in New Zealand is believed to have travelled to Britain on a two-month tour of Europe which galvinised his extremism, the Telegraph can reveal. Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old white supremacist obsessed with the Crusades, toured the Continent and came to […]

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India is ‘standing like a rock to counter evil designs’ – PM on tensions with Pakistan

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed workers in a video conference on Thursday. He said that India is standing like a rock to counter evil designs. “The enemy tries to destabilize us, carries out terror attacks, they want to stop our growth,” he added. “We all countrymen are standing like a rock to counter their evil […]

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Texas-Tyler again unanimous No. 1 in NFCA Division III Top 25 Poll

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Last year’s national runner-up Texas-Tyler remained in the top spot for the third straight week and regained unanimous agreement among the voters as the best team in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Division III Top 25. The Patriots, who swept past Mary Hardin-Baylor to improve to 11-2, have the same two […]

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Paul Manafort will serve a total of seven and a half years in prison, faces more new fraud charges

President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced on Wednesday to three and a half more years in prison for charges arising from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia’s role in the 2016 US election. The sentence of 73 months in prison imposed by US District Judge Amy Berman Jackson in Washington came six […]

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