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The exam is notorious for extremely difficult problems, some of which seem to have little to do with the test topic. Even the president has complained.

Capt. Jamie Frederick of the U.S. Coast Guard said Canadian planes detected unidentified sounds on Tuesday and again on Wednesday. “We have to have hope,” he said.

The names of Nazi-era doctors are still found on diseases and body parts. By expunging them, will doctors forget lessons of the past?

The site where Caesar was assassinated by a group of senators in 44 B.C., nestled among four ancient temples, has been opened to the public for the first time in a century.

He introduced sex and glamour to Italian TV and then brought the same formula to politics, dominating the country and its culture for more than 20 years.

Support for Scottish independence has dipped, but backing for Scotland remaining part of the United Kingdom is fragile, too. Nicola Sturgeon’s arrest leaves the fate of the movement in flux.

The former Italian prime minister and media mogul, who died at 86, was a divisive figure, but even his foes acknowledged that he was an influential political and cultural force.

Melissa Kirsch takes a look at some of the big books coming this summer.

A new wave of writers is making the genre its own, rooting it in local homelands and histories.

NATO is more optimistic that Turkey will approve Sweden’s membership before or soon after an alliance summit next month.