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Windows users: right-click and choose "save as." Mac users: hold down the control key, click and choose "save as." “Monty Python’s Personal Best,” a series of six outrageous one-hour specials ...

The world’s oldest known wild bird, Wisdom, the Laysan albatross, has returned to Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge to nest. Wisdom the Laysan albatross (Phoebastria immutabilis) — band number ...

When I was at prep school in the 1960s, a series of old military buffers came to give a lecture to my motley group of school friends about how we were predestined to run the British Empire; this was ...

In Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, a sailor who shoots an albatross is forced to hang it around his neck as penance, with the bird becoming a heavy burden and a ...

Would you rather start or end a round with an eagle? Through two days at the Alfred Dunhill Championship, Eugenio Chacarra doesn't have to choose because he's already done both. Must be nice. The ...

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Lee Kuan Yew’s preference for a looser federation clashed with Goh’s conviction that racial tensions and economic disappointments made union unsustainable. The Malaysian Solidarity Convention became a ...

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s separation from Malaysia in August 1965 was the result of a “bloodless coup” orchestrated by then Finance Minister Goh Keng Swee and then Malaysia’s Deputy Prime Minister, Tun ...

, edited by Susan Sim and published by Straits Times Press and National Archives of Singapore, sheds new light on this brief, turbulent period. The book, which was launched by Senior Minister Lee ...