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Another fake cop learned a hard lesson after picking the wrong person to mess with—a sharp Filipino expat in Kuwait. The impostor demanded to see a civil ID with a fake English accent, but the expat ...

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The Los Angeles Rams are headed to the NFC Championship Game against the Seahawks, and for a change, quarterback Matthew Stafford did not play the starring role. While facing the Bears on the road, he ...

For Goethe, Italy was an educational journey. Over 200 years ago, the poet liked to romanticise the “land where lemons blossom”. But the topos of Italy changed over the years in literature, especially ...

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