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CB: In Britain, people usually go south to Spain, France, or Italy for their holidays because it’s warmer. They don’t really go north. Plus, when people talk about adventure, they’re usually talking about South America, South Africa, or Asia. We thought it would be lovely to just take a ferry and experience Europe. All the countries are connected, but they’re still very different.What location surprised you the most?EM: There was an area in Finland a day’s ride from Helsinki. There were these huge fresh water wetlands with hundreds of little rocky islands. We went there on this little, beautiful, old…

A typewriter recently discovered in a basement in upstate New York holds important clues about the origins of Chinese computing. And brings up questions about language and culture.(Image credit: Elisabeth von Boch)

A point had to be replayed in the men’s singles quarterfinal match between Taylor Fritz and Karen Khachanov at Wimbledon due to a malfunction of the new electronic line-calling system. It is the latest in a series of problems that have occurred with the tournament’s newly implemented system. The incident occurred during the opening game of the fourth set on Court No. 1 after Fritz had served at 15-0 and the players exchanged shots. Then came a random “fault” call. Chair umpire Louise Azemar-Engzell stopped play and a few moments later announced: “Ladies and gentlemen, we will replay the last…

PIEN HUANG, HOST: It is summer, and that’s the time of the year when the open road beckons – and the road movie. There’s “Grapes Of Wrath.”(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “GRAPES OF WRATH”)UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #1: (As character) How about a lift, Mister?HUANG: There’s “Easy Rider”…(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “EASY RIDER”)UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR #2: (As character) Oh, I’ve got a helmet.HUANG: …Even “Dumb And Dumber.”(SOUNDBITE OF FILM, “DUMB AND DUMBER”)JEFF DANIELS: (As Harry Dunne) According to the map, we’ve only gone about 4 inches.HUANG: You might be noticing a pattern here. It’s not just the lines in the center of the road. Road movies…

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday expressed frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the growing death toll in Ukraine, stating that weekly casualties have surged to 7,000, a figure he called “unacceptable.” “I’m not happy with Putin. I can tell you that much right now, because he’s killing a lot of people, and a lot of them are his soldiers, his soldiers and their soldiers mostly,” Trump told reporters. “And it’s now up to 7,000 a week.” The president’s comments come amid renewed scrutiny over the direction of the Ukraine conflict, which has dragged on for more than three…

The economics world has countless people doing fascinating research, and as much as we try at Planet Money, there’s a lot of stuff that we don’t end up covering. So periodically, we like to do a little roundup of interesting research we’ve come across and share it with you in the Planet Money newsletter. Welcome to Planet Money Paperpalooza. OK, no. Planet Money Researchstock. Hmmm. Paperchella? Fine, we still don’t have a good name for this recurring newsletter series. Please send suggestions: planetmoney@npr.org. And fun ideas for a logo 😉 Anyways, today in the Planet Money newsletter: five recent papers…

The U.S. men’s national soccer team came into the Gold Cup missing many of its usual starters — but, in their absence, a 21-year-old bleach blonde Mexican-American winger named Diego Luna stood out. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: The U.S. men’s national soccer team was missing many of its usual players this summer at the Gold Cup tournament it lost to Mexico in the final last night, 2 to 1. But that allowed new stars to shine, with less than a year before the FIFA World Cup. NPR’s Becky Sullivan has the story of one of them.BECKY SULLIVAN, BYLINE: Coming into this…

Four years ago, the 34-year-old was elected the mukhiya of her village in Madhubani district. Now, amidst the confusion stirred up by the ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, a question mark hands over her status – as it does over hundreds of others originally from Nepal who, for generations, have had marital ties with people in eight border districts this side of the border.“Yahaan maamla phas raha hai (We are getting stuck on this),” admits a Booth Level Officer (BLO) and a relative of the 34-year-old, both of whom don’t want to be identified. “Every…

A beluga whale at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium is the first to successfully recover from general anesthesia in captivity after a surgery to remove a network of cysts. LEILA FADEL, HOST: We often celebrate medical breakthroughs for humans because we see ourselves in them. We can imagine someone benefiting that we know, maybe even ourselves. But we want to take a minute to shout out a group of experts at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago who recently made history by successfully administering anesthesia to a whale in captivity.KARISA TANG: Undertaking something like this – surgery and anesthesia on a 1,000-pound aquatic…

US president voices frustration over the continuing war in Ukraine, says Vladimir Putin is ‘killing a lot of people’.United States President Donald Trump says he is not happy with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, over the continuation of the war in Ukraine and suggests he is considering additional sanctions against Moscow. “We get a lot of b******t thrown at us by Putin,” Trump said during a meeting with his cabinet at the White House on Tuesday. “He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless.” Putin is “killing a lot of people” and a lot of them…