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What is a song?
New York Times, Published on 03/05/2024
» NEW YORK - For most music fans, a song is a simple thing to define: It is the melodies, the lyrics, the grooves that come out of your speakers.
Suicide bomber kills 5 Chinese workers in Pakistan
New York Times, Published on 27/03/2024
» ISLAMABAD — Five Chinese workers were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber rammed a vehicle into their convoy in northern Pakistan, the latest in a string of terrorist attacks highlighting the security challenges Pakistan faces in protecting Chinese personnel.
Maths scores drop globally, but US still trails other countries
New York Times, Published on 06/12/2023
» The math performance of US teenagers has sharply declined since 2018, with scores lower than 20 years ago and with American students continuing to trail global competitors, according to the results of a key international exam released on Tuesday.
The ‘Devil’s Playground’ of urban combat Israel Is preparing to enter
New York Times, Published on 25/10/2023
» NEW YORK - Heavy fire from rooftops and booby-trapped apartments. Armor-piercing projectiles blowing up troop carriers. Fighters blending in with civilians, launching drone ambushes or surging from tunnels full of enough ammunition, food and water to sustain a long war.
What to know about dengue fever as cases spread
New York Times, Published on 25/10/2023
» NEW YORK - Cases of dengue fever, a mosquito-borne viral illness that can be fatal, are surging around the world. The increase is occurring both in places that have long struggled with the disease and in areas where its spread was unheard-of until the last year or two, including France, Italy and Chad, in central Africa. Last week, health officials in Pasadena, California, reported a first case of locally transmitted dengue.
Emerging Thai artist explores subjectivity of memory
New York Times, Published on 02/09/2023
» SEOUL — Sometimes a painting can be adjusted slightly and suddenly take on a new meaning for the artist. For Prae Pupityastaporn, a Thai landscape painter whose works are being presented at Frieze Seoul by the Nova Contemporary gallery in Bangkok, working with two similar paintings side by side can depict the delicate balance between memory and the present moment. An image can change ever so slightly, and ever so profoundly.
YouTube streamer faces riot charge after park erupts in chaos
New York Times, Published on 05/08/2023
» NEW YORK: A popular social media streamer faced a charge of inciting a riot Friday when an event at Manhattan's Union Square Park where he planned to give away video game consoles descended into mayhem, drawing a crowd estimated at several thousand young people.
5 die in quest to see Titanic, implosion suspected
New York Times, Published on 23/06/2023
» NEW YORK: A vast multinational search for five people who had descended to view the wreckage of the sunken RMS Titanic ended on Thursday after pieces of the privately owned submersible vessel that had carried them were found on the ocean floor, evidence of a “catastrophic implosion” with no survivors, according to the United States Coast Guard.
‘The Little Mermaid’: 13 differences between the original and remake
New York Times, Published on 27/05/2023
» This article contains spoilers about the live-action version of "The Little Mermaid".
Quake death toll above 23,000 in Turkey, Syria
New York Times, Published on 11/02/2023
» The death toll in Turkey and Syria from this week’s catastrophic earthquake surpassed 23,600 on Friday as relief organisations struggled to overcome an array of obstacles to deliver aid to survivors in both countries.