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Most Kyiv residents say they are ready to endure the war for as long as it takes to stop Russia, opinion polls show.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

The Brazilian changed the face of English football with his footwork, spraying short and long passes across the pitch, and there are few keepers who can come close to matching that.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

As she continues her residency in Las Vegas, the veteran R&B star looks back on her long career and considers a string of recent accolades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2026

While investors have praised the reforms as long overdue, ordinary Nigerians have suffered soaring inflation as fuel and other costs skyrocketed.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026

That was a long time ago—we don’t play anymore, for the same reason we don’t come into this room often.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

Elected officials in the former no longer have to pledge allegiance to the King ending a 40-year tradition of swearing loyalty to the monarch.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

But replacing them with better models, with blades 20% longer, will let each supply about 15% more power, Jablonski said—a boon when electricity demand is rising and developing new energy projects is slow and expensive.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

Rather than simply progressing toward stronger wings and more efficient flight, some early bird lineages appear to have moved in the opposite direction, adapting to lifestyles in which flying was no longer necessary.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Residents of rural areas are waiting longer for everything from prescriptions to bills, a report published in September by the Postal Service’s inspector general said.

From Salon ● Oct. 24, 2026

He stripped off his cloak, hung it on the hook, then instinctively attempted to remove the monocle that was no longer there.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

One particularly extraordinary axon had a total reconstructed length of 70.32 centimeters, making it part of the longest single neuron ever measured in a mouse.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 23, 2026

Since 2018, Australia’s biggest airline has operated one of the world’s longest nonstop flights: Perth to London.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 23, 2026

"I think the longest I spent in A&E was 13 hours," says the 25-year-old.

From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026

It would also go down in history as one of the longest and most complex cases in the court’s history, staggering to a conclusion only in 1963.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

I gawk at a photo of a man holding the record for the longest toenails in the world.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan