Park advocates say the permanent staff cuts will leave hundreds of national parks - including some of the most well-known and ...

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Ma acquired the violin in 1969 and his estate gifted it to the New England Conservatory in Boston after his death. Ma attended the conservatory, where he earned a master’s degree in 1950.

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A public consultation has been launched on plans for a £600 million theme park in north Oxfordshire. Puy du Fou, which currently has a park in Les Epesses, France, and in Toledo, Spain, has ...

A chilling message of distress has emerged from the ashes of the recent wildfires in a Los Angeles region near a shipping port. Social media users have been captivated by the words "help" and ...

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"I am afraid," said the talkative 63-year-old on Lenin Avenue in Gomel, a town of half a million near where the borders of Belarus, Ukraine and Russia meet. "I want peace," the former electrician ...

“The near-death stuff turbo-fueled all that,” he said. “It made me go, ‘Oh, right, yeah, I could die at any moment.’ I was throwing myself out of planes, taking all sorts of risks.” ...

Stephen Green, Victoria Conservatory of Music dean and chief artistic officer, is pictured. (CHEK News) The Victoria Conservatory of Music is expanding their services, opening a new Centre for ...