AFCON: all winners from 1957 to 2025

AFCON: all winners from 1957 to 2025

Complete record of the Africa Cup of Nations AFCON: all winners from 1957 to 2025 Since its inception in 1957, the Africa Cup of Nations has shaped the history of African football, unveiling generations of champions and finals forever etched into collective memory. From its embryonic beginnings to becoming a major continental showdown, AFCON has…

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What Makes a Good Mother?

What Makes a Good Mother?

It is only in the modern era that women’s own experience of pregnancy, childbirth, and mothering begins to be widely recorded, and here, too, there is an omnipresent sense of the contingency of maternal life. In seventeenth-century England, there was a vogue for books by pregnant women addressed to their unborn offspring, offering preëmptive guidance…

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When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills

When Bernie Sanders Headed for the Hills

Bernie Sanders was just a skinny, gap-toothed kid from Brooklyn in the autumn of 1953, when Vermont opened an information bureau at 1268 Avenue of the Americas, next door to Radio City Music Hall. The Green Mountains beckoned! Under a shop sign that read “VERMONT,” a wide storefront window exhibited seasonal dioramas that trapped pedestrians…

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Yemeni politicians meet in Riyadh after dissolving a southern separatist group

Yemeni politicians meet in Riyadh after dissolving a southern separatist group

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Yemeni politicians met Sunday in Saudi Arabia’s capital in their first public gathering since a southern separatist group backed by the United Arab Emirates was disbanded following weeks of clashes. The meeting in Riyadh discussed the future of southern Yemen ahead of a Saudi-sponsored conference, the dates of which haven’t…

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Acts of Self-Destruction

Acts of Self-Destruction

Friedkin’s film sucked much of the humor and twisted romance from the play, I realized, treating it as straight horror. Although I have some issues with the latest interpretation, directed by David Cromer (it veers hokey, and it is missing the feeling of the vertiginous, the fear that we might be at risk of falling…

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Ban for teacher who criticised colleague to parent

Ban for teacher who criticised colleague to parent

A teacher has been struck off after a panel found she suggested to a parent that colleagues were targeting their child. Erin Dempsey taught the pupil history at Furze Platt Senior School in Maidenhead, Berkshire, when she was found to have also inappropriately contacted the pupil on WhatsApp using her personal mobile phone. She was…

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