Argentina imposes currency controls to support economy

Firms will have to seek central bank permission to buy foreign currency and make bank transfers abroad.

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The former monk who runs a $100m meditation firm

After a decade as a Buddhist monk, Andy Puddicombe set up Headspace with one of his clients.

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How Gothic cathedrals can inspire modern architecture

Floors with arched designs can be thinner and lighter than conventional slabs.

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Voices Of The Past: Questions For Poet Renato Rosaldo

As a kid in Tucson in the 1950s, anthropologist and poet Renato Rosaldo ran with a crew called the Chasers. 50 years later, he interviewed them at a reunion and created prose poems in their voices.

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'The Turn Of Midnight' Looks Towards Dawn

Minette Walters' sequel to The Last Hours finds her medieval villagers beginning to deal with the fact that they've survive the Black Death — and what that means for what's left of society.

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A Show For Las Vegas: 'Mondays Dark'

Mondays Dark is a show that's for Las Vegas, a city seen by many as a place to go crazy and then leave. The city's performers volunteer to entertain a local audience and raise money for charity.

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'Just Ask!' Says Sonia Sotomayor. She Knows What It's Like To Feel Different

We're all different and that's good, says the U.S. Supreme Court justice. Her new children's book about embracing diversity portrays kids of all abilities working together to create a gorgeous garden.

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French air traffic control 'outage' hits UK flights

Airlines warn of delays and some cancellations due to problems affecting French airspace.

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Whatever Happened To ... The Farmers Who Danced In The Mud For The 'Kiki Challenge'?

Last summer, they danced to Drake's "In My Feelings" in a rice paddy and racked up a million page views. Here's what the farmers — and the vlogger behind it — have been up to since then.

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In 'The Ventriloquists,' The True Story Of A Fake Newspaper

E.R. Ramzipoor's novel tells the story a group of resisters in Belgium during World War II who lampooned the Nazis by putting out a satirical edition of the newspaper Le Soir, then a Nazi mouthpiece.

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