Best songs written by Stephen Sondheim
By Allison Hassett, CNN • Updated 26th July 2016 (CNN) — Award-winning composer Stephen Sondheim is best known for crafting intricate theater works that employ a triple dose of themes, including a wistful tale…
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The last good chance to save the Atlantic coast’s kelp forests
In the century or so since skivers and thrusters were sent out from the Maryland and Delaware coasts to starboard and starboard the kelp forests and coral reefs of the Atlantic have grown and…
Merkel wins deal to form coalition government in Germany
BERLIN — Leaders of Germany’s Social Democrats said they have reached a deal with Angela Merkel’s conservatives on forming a coalition government, ending the chancellor’s lengthy, tortuous search for a new coalition partner. The…
Toronto mayoral candidates on city’s proposed tolls
Mayoral candidates Fred Eisenberger and Jon Haddahl went on the CBC’s Metro Morning program this morning, and the candidates both opined on Mayor John Tory’s pending decision to announce his legacy of tolls on…
Joe Biden received mild applause for wishing family a ‘great Thanksgiving’ at Nantucket’s Christmas tree lighting
Former Vice President Joe Biden was met with cheers when he made his way to the Nantucket Christmas tree lighting Wednesday night. A slight amount of criticism was directed at Mr. Biden for a…
Brazilian president signs deal with SpaceX — as the company struggles to build his broadband network
Photo President Jair Bolsonaro and Brazilian Space Agency President Gisela Malbron de Paula on Thursday celebrated a contract signed between the government and SpaceX to send NASA satellites into orbit to monitor the world’s…
Iranian governor slapped in the face during public speech
This article is over 5 months old Footage shows Salavati Sorouri being slapped in head after criticising incumbent president, Hassan Rouhani Iranian governor slapped in the face during public speech A senior Iranian official…
25 best-selling books every holiday-attending friend, aunt, family member should read
Which books would our holiday-attending friends, aunts, friends’ children, friends’ grandmothers and others gift-givers read? We asked Toronto Star staffers what books they’d pick for friends, family, colleagues and other loved ones. Here are…
Billionaire’s son sells $676m art collection in divorce settlement
Son of Michael and Annette Sturgess, Bambos Agathangelou, says he wants a quiet life and his ex-wife ‘needs to go spend her money somewhere else’ An art heir to the Bharti family fortune has…
Another hiker is hit by a pack of wild hogs roaming the woods of Virginia
A large number of wild hogs besieged a Virginia golf course and caused three days of closures, NBC12 reports. As of Wednesday, the dogs on rescue teams had freed 29 of the animals, most…