Rescue teams at the site of a bus accident on Indonesia’s Java island that left at least 15 people dead early Monday. (Image: X) follow us follow us Indonesia bus crash: At least 15 people died in a ...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia — A zoo on Java island released photos of Indonesia's first locally-born giant panda cub, and said the male cub was showing signs of being in good health. The mother, 15-year-old Hu ...

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William Golding’s Lord of the Flies (1954) is a profoundly – even unsettlingly – historical novel. Granted, it doesn’t look like one at first. Set either in Golding’s own day, or in the very near ...