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Japanese Yasutaro Koide, 112, receives the Guinness World Records certificate as he is formally recognized as the world's oldest man. He lives in a nursing home in Nagoya, in central Japan.
Health
Japan is home to the world’s oldest population — and the world’s oldest man
A house and vehicles damaged by the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, as seen in Ishinomaki, northern Japan.
Environment
A decade after Katrina, one researcher looks for global lessons in its aftermath
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Science
Humans kill adult animals much more than other predators, are in fact ‘super predators’
Jarryd Hayne scores during the centenary rugby league test match between Australia and New Zealand in Wellington, 2007.
Sports
How a rugby superstar is taking on the NFL
The view from the tracks
Media
In photos: A view of America from the tracks
Semen samples at Canadian sperm bank Can-Am Cryoservices
Health
Why Canada has to import much of its sperm from the US
Kids play soccer during a training session at Sao Carlos slum in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2014.
Books
For this expat, moving back to Brazil wasn’t all sunshine and samba
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras shows his watch while leaving the European Council headquarters on the first day of an EU-CELAC Latin America summit in Brussels, Belgium June 11, 2015.
Global Politics
Greece’s prime minister has resigned — after only seven months in office
Former President Jimmy Carter takes questions from the media during a news conference about his recent cancer diagnosis and treatment plans, at the Carter Center in Atlanta. Carter, 90, said he will cut back dramatically on his schedule to receive treatme
Health
Jimmy Carter: ‘I would like the last Guinea worm to die before I do’
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Justice
The white supremacists lining up behind Trump
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Music
Hip-hop until dawn marked this Colombian singer’s days in the US
JiHAE at her studio in New York City.
Music
JiHAE cares more about what’s underneath — and it shows on her new record ‘Illusion of You’
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Justice
First Saudi women register to vote
A surf shop in the Philippines town Baler, where some surfing scenes from Apocalypse Now were filmed.
Culture
How Francis Ford Coppola helped bring surfing to the Philippines
US troops wade ashore on D-Day. Belfrage is alleged to have passed information to the Soviets about the Allies plans to open a second front in World War II.
Global Politics
New documents reveal this British WWII spy may have been one of the most important agents for the Soviets
Jan Wanggaard (l), Bjørn Myrann (c), and Stig Pettersen (r), from the “Maud Return Home.”
Technology
A Norwegian artist wants to raise a storied ship using some really big balloons