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The CBS television show “It’s What’s Happening Baby” aired a music video featuring Martha and the Vandellas performing their hit song “Nowhere to Run” to kick off its national broadcast dedicated to Detroit on June 28, 1965. In the video, the Detroit-based trio sang about how they could not escape missing an ex-lover after a breakup while sitting in […]

East Asia’s “economic miracle” in the post-World War II period was predicated upon a number of factors, such as the region’s export-led growth model, but critically it also depended on an assured supply of capital to finance business investment. One source of such finance was bank loans, the supply and direction of which can be officially influenced by various means rather than being chiefly market-determined. Even today, bank loans account for most of the business financing in Japan, the...

On the 50th day of an internet blackout, Iranians under the surveillance of the IRGC for accessing the internet spoke at great risk to Maira Butt and Moha Tahery about their everyday lives amid a brutal crackdown, ongoing conflict and economic crisis

A fishing net had to be used to capture the "challenging beast" in a south of Scotland store.

A fishing net had to be used to capture the "challenging beast" in a south of Scotland store.

Vladimir Putin is in a 'very dangerous situation' as dissatisfaction grows among economic, political and military elites, with an 'Operation Twilight' coup reportedly in the works

LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer probably wishes he had never heard the name Peter Mandelson

Tyler Buchanan has pleaded guilty to plotting a widespread hack

When Alina Dotsenko returned to her museum after Ukrainian forces retook the southern city of Kherson from Russian forces in late 2022, she found thousands of artworks had vanished. “I walked in and saw empty storage rooms, empty shelves. My legs gave way, and I just sat down by the wall, like a child,” the Kherson Art Museum director said. Before Russia’s full-scale invasion in early 2022, the museum held more than 14,000 works in a collection “ranging from America to Japan”. As the Russians...

A Hong Kong charity is attempting to fast-track the supply of guide dogs for the blind by breeding a Labrador with a golden retriever for the first time, as only 10 per cent of applicants for canines were ready for immediate pairing. Jasmine Tang Yau-sheung, head of operations with Hong Kong Seeing Eye Dog Services, also told the South China Morning Post that the number of canines still lagged far behind demand, even with the imminent birth of the mixed-breed “goldadors”. This litter of...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is pursuing the first ever revision of her country’s post-World War II pacifist constitution, a step that observers say is likely to be welcomed in Washington and condemned in Beijing. Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured a historic two-thirds majority in the National Diet’s lower house in February’s election, passing the threshold needed to pass constitutional amendments without other parties’ support. “An independent constitutional amendment...

Carrageen pudding and Bedfordshire clangers might no longer be household staples, but some home chefs are bringing them back.