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The doctors told Naomi that she could not leave the hospital. She was lying in a narrow bed at Denver Health Medical Center. Someone said something about a judge and [...]

In October 2017, Diane Norelius stopped answering the phone. Her two daughters called and called. They called Diane's boyfriend, Denzil Nelson, too. Whenever Denzil picked up, he would only say, [...]

Byline: Katie Engelhart Home and Alone Loneliness is a crisis among older Americans. Can robots keep them company? It felt good to love again, in that big empty house. Virginia [...]

The article evaluates the Salomon X Ultra 4 Mid GTX Hiking Boots from Salomon which features a comfortable fit, durable construction, and excellent traction.

NATO is preparing to bulk up its military presence in Eastern Europe. Will it thwart Putin, or merely prod the bear? In Brussels last Saturday for an emergency meeting of [...]

ON A RECENT Monday evening, a handful of people met at their usual rendezvous point: an immense parking lot outside of a grocery store in Bathgate, Scotland, an old industrial [...]

On a Saturday in August 2013, a 98-year-old man named Laszlo Csatary died in a hospital in Budapest, Hungary. The cause was pneumoma, his lawyer later confirmed. At the time [...]

IN AUGUST 2010, dozens of far-right politicians from across Europe flew to Tokyo for a week of plotting and scheming. They were invited by Japan's right-wing Issuikai group, famous for [...]

Barely 26 hours into his life, and William and Kate's first child is already an heir to the throne, an international celebrity and a comforting symbol of continuity. His life, [...]

IN 2003, a young Mark Zuckerberg sat in front of his computer and instant-messaged a friend. Back then, 'the facebook thing' was still a rough idea, and 18-year-old Zuckerberg was [...]

AS OF THIS month, the British Empire is on trial. Or so goes the story in London. On Oct. 5, a British high court ruled that three elderly Kenyans who [...]

FOR THE PAST 22 years, Pierre Savard has, off and on, been searching for the Higgs boson particle. On the morning of July 4-shortly before physicists at CERN (the European [...]

IN LATE JULY, a great crowd gathered in Sarajevo to mark an occasion: the opening of Bosnia-Herzegovina's first McDonald's. Beneath the golden arches, perched high above the routine bustle of [...]

WHEN COUNCILMAN Beto O'Rourke looks out the 10th-floor window of the El Paso, Texas, city hall, he sees a fence: 'a big, ugly, Berlin-style fence. It's disgusting.' The structure separates [...]

The Green 30 is based on how employees perceive their employer's environmental efforts. We asked each organization that made the 2010 list--compiled by Hewitt Associates, a global HR consulting and [...]

A list of Canadian organizations that have made efforts to become environmentally responsible is presented. The various 'green' programs that these companies have initiated are discussed.

On April 30, 1945, Adolf Hitler took his own life with a simultaneous bite into a cyanide pill and gunshot to the temple. The day before, he dictated his will [...]

One drizzly Thursday last May, the townsfolk of Ghent, a Flemish burg of some 250,000 souls famous for its stoverij--a stew of beef braised in beer--gathered outside a centuries-old slaughterhouse [...]

FEB. 12 DAY 1 10:00 A.M. SKI JUMPING Normal hill individual qualification round 6:00 P.M. OPENING CEREMONY FEB. 13 DAY 2 9:45 A.M. SKI JUMPING Normal hill individual round 1 [...]

It is being touted as the last great Nazi trial. In November, John Demjanjuk--now first on the Simon Wiesenthal Center's list of most-wanted war criminals--will appear before a Munich court. [...]

When it comes to fluoride in his community's water, the mayor of Lambton Shores, Ont., Gord Minielly, has one thing to say: 'Better out than in.' But he's not the […]

At 6 a.m. on a Saturday morning in late January, a police squad entered a large conference hall in Koblenz, Germany and swept the place for explosives. Outside, some 1,000 [...]

On March 16, citizens in the autonomous Republic of Crimea will vote to secede from Ukraine. Indeed, they will have no choice. The Crimean referendum ('so-called referendum,' according to the [...]

Carpentras-a town of 30,000 in southeastern France-is known for its quiet stateliness and its Friday morning black truffle market, but it was once a place of import: a residence for [...]

THE LATEST VERSION of the story of Princess Diana's tragic death goes something like this: 23 minutes past midnight on the evening of Aug. 31, 1997--just after the black Mercedes [...]

LATER THIS YEAR, the leaders of European Union nations will meet in Brussels for their annual European council. On the agenda: a discussion of Europe's military might. At the summit, [...]

A HUNDRED YEARS ago this week, half a million men and women in Belfast filed into City Hall to sign the Ulster Covenant: an official petition against 'Home Rule'--a move [...]

We're used to seeing the potato as a focal point of conflict and discord, the cliched casualty of the carbohydrate wars. But hoopla over green beans, that healthiest of vegetables? [...]

Sixteen years ago, an eternity in Internet years, media mogul Rupert Murdoch became one of the first newspaper publishers to venture online. In a now-forgotten deal, his sprawling News Corp. [...]

A new rule is forcing Google to 'forget' personal information. Will it make for a kinder Internet, or will it kill free speech? Earlier this year, a woman in Italy [...]

Early last year, two young men from Birmingham, Mohammed Nahin Ahmed and Yusuf Zubair Sarwar, left Britain for Syria, where police believe they spent eight months fighting with the al [...]

Last September, Saffron Dickson, then 15 years old (now '16 and three-quarters'), attended a televised BBC debate in Glasgow on the subject of the upcoming Scottish referendum. Partway through the [...]

Ukraine is not the only place that Mother Russia has its eye on. In Europe's 'de facto states,' separatists are rising. Last month, Leonid Tibilov--the unrecognized president of the nonexistent [...]

In April, Victoria Coren Mitchell became the first two-time winner on the European Poker Tour. Today, she is one of the winningest women in poker, ranking ninth internationally with total [...]

Professional historians working under the Soviet Union found themselves in a pinch. Early on, authorities proved adept at seizing control of history and deploying it as propaganda drenched in Communist [...]

Almost 25 years ago, in November 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Thousands of Germans gathered in the biting cold to embrace and weep and drink champagne, and to dance atop [...]

As a state-appointed poet laureate, Jang Jin Sung reached the pinnacle of elite life in North Korea. He spent his days writing epic poems for dictator Kim Jong Il--and overseeing [...]

Nina Khrushcheva is the granddaughter of the former leader of the Soviet Union, Nikita Khrushchev. An associate professor of international affairs at the New School in New York City, and [...]

Sviatoslav Yurash, a second-year university student with side-swept blond hair and a white cable-knit sweater, cuts a figure quite different from those who dominate the television coverage of Ukraine's uprising--the [...]