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Answer FIVE Geography questions each week based on major news events.

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Singapore tries a dating app as birth rate sinks

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This Week's lesson:

No grand slams in Grand Teton: Major League Baseball drops national park game request amid outcry

Major League Baseball leaders struck out on a swing that missed. They dropped a request to the federal government to allow a construction of a temporary ballpark in Grand Teton National Park for a regular season game. "It's become clear the comm...

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Diversity, multiculturalism, worldwide events. You'll find plenty for classroom discussions in this listing of events.

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FlyDubai pilot attacked by co-pilot speaks out

FlyDubai pilot Smit Machchhar described his desperate struggle last week to save himself and the 173 other people on board the plane after his co-pilot attacked him with an axe in the cockpit. “I managed to open the door, and then everyone else came ...

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