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About 20 Chinese rescue workers in bright orange ​worked excavators, shovels and radar detectors on ‌Sunday in an effort to find hundreds of people missing since a tsunami-like mudslide wiped out China’s main ​border crossing with Nepal.

Festival organiser would not reveal whether Taylor Swift would be among next year’s headliners Madonna will not be performing at next year’s Glastonbury, the festival’s organiser, Emily Eavis, has said. The singer, who has the most top 10 singles in UK chart history of any female artist, has never featured at Britain’s biggest music festival. Continue reading...

When Carlo Petrini founded the Slow Food movement in Rome in 1986 to protest the arrival of Italy's first McDonald's, ​Edward Mukiibi was not yet born.