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As a child in Egypt coming home from Sunday school, Khairy Gurgis remembers being taunted with verbal slurs, slapped or pelted with stones by Muslim kids. His crime: being a Christian. He also recalls vandals painting a big, red cross on the sides of his uncle’s and neighbor’s house identifying …

Egyptians armed with low-tech electronic gadgets like dial-up modems, landlines and old-school satellite phones are finding ways to get their message out, despite efforts by the teetering government to block communication. Those who had been using social media sites like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to distribute images and video to …

In the film, “The Day After Tomorrow,” the world is wrapped by ice in just a few weeks. New research suggests an eerily similar event might indeed have occurred in the past — and could again. Looking to the future, there is no reason why such a freeze shouldn’t happen …