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The South African city of Cape Town could be the first major metropolitan area to run out of water. City officials say that a three-year drought and huge population growth have overwhelmed dams.

Authorities say they tried to break up two separate brawls involving more than a hundred Eritrean and Afghan migrants at Calais, the French port that many hope to use to cross over to the U.K.

The second line of "O Canada," which has said the nation inspires patriotism "in all thy sons," will now read "in all of us." The change has passed the country's Senate. The House approved it in 2016.

As history tells it, young Edward Jenner heard a milkmaid say she'd had cowpox so couldn't get smallpox. And thus his idea for a vaccine was born. Now a researcher has fact-checked the tale.

Up for an Oscar for best foreign-language film, Hungary's tale of two workers linked by shared dreams shifts between whimsy and visceral violence without making us care about either.

The Nazis established some of the most notorious extermination camps of the Holocaust on Polish soil — including Auschwitz-Birkenau.