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    The World Cup of Everything Else

    How the tournament would play out if 32 countries were competing in things other than soccer.

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    Scoring: A National Style Guide

    From Spain to Brazil: Six goals and what they show about team strategy.

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    World at Their Feet: Team Profiles

    Key players to watch, from Lionel Messi to Xavi to Cristiano Ronaldo.

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    Meet Team USA

    The players on the U.S. national team are a mix of MLS stars and players for second-tier European clubs. They play hard for 90 minutes, though not always well.

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    World Cup: A Guide to Brazil's Costly Stadiums

    Take a look at the 12 venues, their state of readiness and what the plans are for each after the World Cup ends in July.

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    Executive Compensation: How CEOs Rank

    CEO pay rose a median of 5.5% to $11.4 million in 2013, according to The Wall Street Journal/Hay Group CEO Compensation Study.

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    Tracking Online Retail Sales

    Amazon maintained its domination of online retail sales in 2013 compared with the next 14 largest retailers.

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    California Gunman's Trail of Violence

    Investigators say 22-year-old Elliot Rodger's rampage started with the stabbing deaths of three men, and ended with chaotic shootings the streets of Isla Vista, Calif., Friday night.

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    Interactive: Kowloon Walled City

    Explore the history and legacy of Hong Kong's lost labyrinth.

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    Two Popes, Two Saints

    Pope John Paul II and Pope John XXIII: their lives in pictures and video as they are made saints.

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    How Health-Insurance Subsidies Are Calculated

    The federal government offers subsidies to help lower-income people pay for their health-care premiums. See how those subsidies are calculated.

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    The Clear-Cut History of Shaving

    See the history of shaving from Prehistory to present, including razor innovations.

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    Emoji Uncovered

    Translate WSJ headlines into emoji, plus more about emoji, from the popular to the obscure.

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    How Ad Targeting Works on Facebook

    With the click of some buttons, anyone can create ads that encourage people to 'like' items on Facebook, install apps, visit other websites and more. See how ad targeting works on Facebook.

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    How Ted Cruz Followed His Boyhood Idol to Washington

    Acquiring his Cuban-immigrant father's love of Ronald Reagan, the Texan geared his life toward emulating the president.

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    15 Tragedies on the Seas

    As rescuers continued to search for missing passengers of a ferry that sank in South Korea Wednesday, review a list of the worst maritime accidents over the past 10 years.

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    U.S.-Russia Relations After the Cold War

    Read about key events.

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    The Kashagan Debacle

    How four energy giants, 10 man-made islands and nearly $50 billion add up to zero barrels of current oil production.

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    The Tangled Web of the Chinese Internet

    China's three Internet giants, Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent, are weaving a tangled web as they compete to snap up stakes in smaller firms.

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    The Zhou Yongkang Network

    China's government says it is pursuing a broad corruption investigation, which has resulted in the detention of several of Zhou Yongkang's associates from government and his days as an oilman.

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    Sanctions on Russia: Who is Who

    The latest sanctions on Russia target close friends and advisers to Putin, a bank, and more. See the full list.

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    Hungry Borrowers, Reluctant Lenders

    The financial crisis, economic slump and changes by lenders hit small-business borrowers hard. Recovery has been especially slow for black entrepreneurs.

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    East Harlem Explosion Site, Before and After

    Compare before and after pictures of the site of the explosion and buildings collapse at 1644 and 1646 Park Avenue, New York.

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    Behind the Bull Market

    The record stock market climb that began after the financial crisis low in 2009 turns five years old. Explore record bulls and what if you got your money in at the bottom of the market.

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    Before and After: Photos Show Rise of Tents at Bangui's Airport

    Satellite photos from December show the proliferation of tents as more than 100,000 gathered at Bangui International Airport in Central African Republic to escape sectarian strife.

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    Venezuela's Opposition Leaders

    University students have been the backbone of the antigovernment movement, but demonstrators recently have looked to Leopoldo López, a former mayor of the Chacao district of Caracas and leader of the Popular Will party. Read more about the opposition to President Nicolás Maduro.

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    Missing Plane: Tracking MH370

    The search continued for a Malaysia Airlines jet that vanished from radar screens about an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur for Beijing Saturday.

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    History of Heartbreak: Airline Crashes in Recent Years

    Every year brings aviation accidents. Whether because of pilot error or mechanical failure, the result is usually the same: death or injury to those on board or on the ground, and grieving relatives at the airport.

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    How the Land Lies for U.S. Home Builders

    Before even considering things like public schools and transport links, choosing a site for a home rests on one thing: The availability of suitable land. See a map of how easy or difficult it is to build homes in the U.S.

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    The Year of the Meltdown: Federal Reserve Actions in 2008

    The year 2008 marked the worst of the financial crisis, a time when the Federal Reserve struggled to prevent the financial system from collapsing and triggering another depression. Read about key events during those dark 12 months, with excerpts from Fed meeting transcripts released Friday.

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    Fukushima Daiichi: The Battle for Containment

    Three years after suffering one of the world's worst nuclear accidents, the Fukushima Daiichi compound remains a challenge for the operator and regulators.

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    Tracking Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán

    Mexico's most-wanted drug lord, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán Loera, was arrested early Saturday, likely closing the most notorious career in organized crime in the country. Track some of his known whereabouts across Mexico on the map below.

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    Cable Connections

    Two decades of consolidation have created the four biggest U.S. cable-TV providers from dozens of smaller companies.

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    Global Illness

    A look at diabetes prevalence and diabetes-related expenditures around the world

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    How Obama's Message Was Received

    A look at the topics and quotes that earned the lengthiest applause in President Barack Obama's 2014 State of the Union address.

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    Google's Plans to Alter Europe Search Display

    Google has agreed to give comparable prominence in online search results to services offered by three rivals, settling its European Union antitrust case.

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    Libor: The Spider Network

    Explore the web of connections that reveals the breadth of the alleged conspiracy to manipulate Libor.

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    Lane Closure Fallout

    What started as an order to temporarily close two of three local access lanes to the George Washington Bridge in September 2013 turned into a political controversy over the motives for the closure.

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    A Volcano Awakens

    Mount Sinabung volcano, on Indonesia's Sumatra Island, has displaced nearly 30,000 people from their homes since eruptions began in September. See aerial images, maps of Sinabung and the fault lines of the Pacific Ring of Fire.

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    Global Gulen

    The Gulen movement says that it runs more than 2000 educational premises in 160 countries.

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    The New 10-Euro Note

    The European Central Bank Monday unveiled a 10-euro note designed to make it harder to counterfeit. It will enter into circulation on Sept. 23.

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    The Future of Coal: Sector Survives the Doubters

    Coal remains the biggest source of fuel for generating electricity in the U.S. Even as coal production has dropped in Appalachia, it has climbed in Wyoming and in the country's midsection.

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    2014 Poll Tracker — Senate, Governors, Other Races

    Explore the Wall Street Journal's guide to top Senate and governor races and compare sentiment in national polls. Data provided by Real Clear Politics.

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    European Elections 2014: Live Results

    About 400 million citizens across the European Union's 28 member states had the chance to elect a new European Parliament. Track live projections and results.

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    Hotspots Along the Ukraine-Russia Border

    Follow the continuing conflict in and around eastern Ukraine.

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    Does Your Hand Fit Your Phone Screen?

    Screen sizes vary. The length of your thumb and index finger mean some phones will be more comfortable to use. Follow these steps to see how phones with small, medium and large screens will fit your hand.

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    Behind the Private-Equity Payout Bonanza

    The founders of publicly traded private-equity firms derive much of their wealth from owning stakes in the firms they launched and investing in the firms' funds. See where the cash came from.

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    Meet the Women of the Fortune 500

    Women have made great strides breaking into the executive ranks, but at the biggest companies, the chief executive is almost always male. Women currently hold the top job at 4.6% of Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies.

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    The Night of the Killing: Floor Plan

    The series of events according to Oscar Pistorius on Feb. 14, 2013, that led to his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp's death.

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    Sochi Olympic Panoramas

    The Journal's team in Sochi presents 360-degree views from inside the Games and around the city. By: Jim Chairusmi and Pia Catton.

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    Primer: Olympic 500m Speedskating

    Get to know the men's 500m speedskating event, the classic sprint of the winter games.

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    Sochi Medal Count

    Which country has the most gold medals at Sochi 2014? Keep tabs with our medal tracker.

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    Every Step to Sochi

    Three contenders for spots on Team USA measured their physical activity ahead of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, at the request of The Wall Street Journal.

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    Assessing the Bank of England's Forecasts

    Compare the BOE's forecasts for the U.K.'s gross domestic product growth and inflation one year ahead, and how GDP growth and inflation actually turned out.

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    Olympic Venues in Sochi

    Much of the competition, fanfare and fun at this month's Winter Olympics is centered in the 'Coastal Cluster' and 'Mountain Cluster.' Explore the Olympic venues.

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    They Could Turn Flaws into Gold

    Here's a look at five Olympic athletes and how they managed to turn their physiques to best advantage.

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    Super Bowl Spending Driven by Car Ads

    Spending on Super Bowl TV ads has more than doubled since 2000. Track the amount spent by industry during the game broadcast, based on data provided by Kantar Media.

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    Chain Redaction

    Documents released to The Wall Street Journal by the SEC were heavily redacted.

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    Tale of One City

    House prices in London are racing higher at a much faster pace than elsewhere in the U.K. But vast differences exist within the capital as well.

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    Delhi's Women Investigators

    The female graduates of the Delhi police academy's class of 2011 have been thrust onto the frontlines of India's struggle to curb violence against women, enforcing the law in an area once governed by family and tradition.

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    Bangladesh: Voices From the Rubble

    Survivors tell their stories eight months after the Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,100 workers.

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    Private Property

    The booming nontraded REIT industry has been criticized for not being transparent enough with shareholders about how much the REITs' assets are worth. Here is a list of all 108 REITs that have offered stock since the early 1990s, and how their shares have performed.

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    Comparing Fed Chair Nominations

    See how Janet Yellen's confirmation compares with previous nominees to head the Federal Reserve.

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    News Quiz: June 1 - 7

    This week's news quiz includes questions on the Bergdahl prisoner exchange and a Spanish abdication.

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