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Valuable slips include those carved with the earliest Nine-Nine Multiplication Table, a previously lost version of The ...

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Unicorns are far more than just magical horses with pointy horns and sparkly manes. From ancient Chinese mythology to ...

Thousands of students from across the Caucasus and Central Asia now study in China, and it seems Beijing is expanding such ...

It is almost 100 years since the death of Ryunosuke Akutagawa by suicide in 1927 at the age of 35, so it is timely to republish his novella Kappa (Pushkin Classics, £9.99, 140pp, including the ...

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The diagnosis: The man appeared to be having clonic seizures — repeated jerking movements — in his arm while solving sudoku, ...

Maestro Stefano Vignati returns to the podium of Opera Carolina to conduct Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Suor Angelica ...