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Nepal’s parliament elects nation’s first female president
October 29, 2015Bidhya Devi Bhandari said her election marked a first step toward assuring the new constitutional guarantees of equality are fulfilled.
Read moreWhat really happened to the 43 students in Mexico?
October 28, 2015The disappearance of 43 students in Iguala last year on September 26 remains an open, festering wound in Mexico.
Read moreCocoon: The story of Dominga
October 28, 2015Nothing that happened from now on would destroy Dominga. She had flown with no wings, powered by a blessed cocoon.
Read moreToday in history: Birthday of South African liberation fighter Oliver Tambo
October 27, 2015Oliver Reginald Tambo, anti-apartheid politician and revolutionary, was born on this date in 1917.
Read moreToday in history: Pelé, greatest soccer player ever, turns 75
October 23, 2015Pelé, the now retired Brazilian professional soccer player widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, was born on this date in 1940.
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