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Sofia Russo

Sofia Russo

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The Italy national football team (file photo)
Sports
Tuesday, 6/30, 09:08 AM

A World Cup without Italy, again: a fallen giant searches for answers

  • As the 2026 World Cup unfolds, one of football's great names is missing from it — again.
  • Italy, four-time world champions, have failed to reach the finals for a third tournament running, an absence that has plunged the Azzurri into soul-searching about how a giant fell so far.
A black-veined white butterfly (Aporia crataegi)
Science 4 d

A zoo's bid to bring back a butterfly Britain lost a century ago

  • Dartmoor Zoo has begun breeding black-veined white butterflies — a species extinct in Britain since 1925 — with plans to release them into the Devon countryside as early as next summer, in a conservation push partners hope can restore a small piece of the nation's depleted wildlife.

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