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CARMINE ‘THE SNAKE’ PERSICO WAS A GANGSTER’S GANGSTER: A STONE-COLD KILLER WHO MAINTAINED HIS POSITION AS BOSS OF NYC’S COLOMBO CRIME FAMILY DESPITE BEING SENTENCED TO 139 YEARS IN PRISON IN THE 1980S

A pride of lions silently patrolling the grassland at dusk; a cheetah closing in on its prey with mind-blowing speed; a watchful leopard curled artfully in a tree. There’s nothing quite like a big cat

Inside an unassuming building, behind a damp car park in Antwerp, Belgium, scientists are teaching two spacecraft to be dance partners for a performance that will take place in front of the Sun. It’s

Alice Diamond’s shoplifting gang descended on London’s West End stores “like a plague of locusts” – and made themselves a fortune While the Peaky Blinders, Brigton Billy Boys and Charles Sabini’s mob

When I was starting my third book about my work on the Endangered Alphabets Project – work that involves finding, researching, promoting and carving the world’s 300+ minority scripts – I found myself

Were the seeds of Civil War already written into the American Constitution?