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Festival season is upon us, with Venice getting underway now and Toronto not far behind. LFF 2015 is only a few more weeks away as well, and the BFI has just unveiled a brilliant line-up, featuring many of the brilliant movies heading to both of those...

1.    Name the world's longest domestic cat, (48.5in (1.23m)) who has died at the age of eight after a year-long battle with Cancer? Stewie. The cat was awarded the record, measured from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail, by...

Book of the Month Abantu Abadala – Conversations with the Elders We know about the lives of famous struggle heroes, but what about the lives of the ordinary South Africans who struggles with injustice, discrimination and poverty on a daily basis? Abantu...

November 10 1290: The community of Huesca, Spain prohibited Christians from buying meat or poultry from Jews under a penalty of 70 days in jail. 1509: Emperor Maximilien issued a second mandate reproaching the Jews of Frankfort for disobeying his first...

By Mike Allen (@mikeallen; mallen@politico.com) and Daniel Lippman (@dlippman; dlippman@politico.com) DRIVING THE CONVERSATION: Rubio pile-on at tonight’s debate – “Rubio walks into the lions’ den: ‘There is no question that the target on our back has...