Japan's Emperor Naruhito planted a cherry tree at Oxford University on Friday in the gardens of the college where he was once a student. Naruhito was joined by Empress Masako for his return to Merton College, where he studied for a postgraduate history degree between 1983 and 1985. Masako also studied at Oxford's Balliol College a few years after her husband.
The few steps required to walk across the stage to accept her high school diploma were ones Hala Najm envisioned for years.Not just the two years it took for her complete her course load — the 61-year-old says receiving her diploma is an idea that's tugged on her for decades, having come to Canada from Lebanon in 1977 at a young age."I always felt I had a void in my life," Najim told CBC Radio's Ottawa Morning on Monday. She came to Canada when she was 14, married young and had six children by t
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.N. cultural agency has discovered five bombs hidden within the walls of the historic al-Nouri Mosque in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq, a remnant of the Islamic State militant group’s rule over the area, UNESCO said in a statement Saturday.
The chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet, told the Wall Street Journal that he does not plan to continue donations to the Bill and Melinda Gates' foundation after he dies.
LONDON (AP) — Before Emperor Naruhito of Japan hopped into a horse-drawn carriage with King Charles III, laid a wreath at Westminster Abbey or toured one of Britain’s premier biomedical research institutes, he kicked off his trip to the U.K. by visiting a site that has special meaning for him: The Thames Barrier.
Six years of sometimes controversial transformation came to an end in downtown Fredericton on Friday evening as a large crowd came to Officers' Square for its long-awaited reopening. The historic public plaza has been under renovation since 2018, and is now the home of a skating rink in the winter and a gathering place during warmer months.Dignitaries from the city, province and Wolastoqey Nation joined a crowd of more than 500 people on a warm, sunny evening to kick off a weekend of festivities
Last June, the Supreme Court struck down the use of affirmative action in college admissions. The court held, in a 6-3 decision, that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s admissions programs, which had accounted for race at various stages in the process, violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Now, students applying to post-secondary schools following the court’s decision are navigating a new landscape.
Jamie Oliver's wife Jools has been in the United States over the past few days and the model wowed her followers when she revealed a special gift for her youngest child, River
The "Butterfly" rocker, whose real name was Seth Binzer, died of an accidental drug overdose on June 24
The longtime couple, whose 73rd wedding anniversary falls on June 30, exclusively tells PEOPLE about their enduring love story
My husband and I were monogamous before we got married. When we stopped wearing our wedding rings, we decided to try polyamory.
"We started having the 'our past relationships' talk, and she told me about her high school and college boyfriends. Then, she admitted that she cheated on her college boyfriend..."
‘Your mom is out of line, if you would have checked her a long time ago it wouldn’t have gotten to this point,’ one Reddit comment reads
Harrison tells PEOPLE in a statement that the pair met at the start of 2024
"Desperate for a new love life, I talked to him for months online and on the phone. One day, he asked me for $1,000. He asked to get directly into my bank account to transfer the money to where it needed to go. I ended up broke with zero in the bank..."
It's unclear where the couple currently stand.
"People only change if THEY want to. All the flaws you see before marriage will still exist, and no matter how much you try to change someone, it won't work. You either grow together or grow apart."
Audrey Hepburn wore a tea-length dress with puff sleeves for her 1954 nuptials to Mel Ferrer
I don't know how common it is to have an alive person accidentally brought to the mortuary, but judging by these stories, it happens much more than I anticipated!
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