On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

the world's tallest woman: She stands just over 7 feet tall. Anadolu Agency / Getty Images 19.This is Valentine Tapley, a man who, in 1860, vowed never to cut his beard again if Abraham Lincoln ...

Activist artist Probir Gupta highlights inequalities, injustices and instances of shocking violence in his works. The latest ...

Who owns the Guelph Treasure, worth millions? The question seems open again after new documents raised suspicions of ...

I Dream of Joni” by Henry Alford and “Song So Wild and Blue” by Paul Lisicky are wonderful reminders of Joni Mitchell’s ...

Annie Ernaux’s semi-autobiographical book Les Années charts a woman’s life across time and space, history and memory, through what the author describes as a collective consciousness. Perhaps the most ...

From a cool double bill of 1980s bands to a revered classical music quartet, there is a lot to see and do in the Bay Area.

As the world’s largest single provider of humanitarian aid, USAID last year allocated $860m to the region alone. The agency operates in six out of Southeast Asia’s 11 countries – Cambodia, Laos, ...

When I think of ‘Gangaramaya Navam Perahera’ the name of the then chief incumbent thera, Venerable Galaboda Gnanissara Thero ...

By Kathy Perschmann At 2 p.m., every Sunday this month, there is music at the Chanhassen Library, as part of the “Music in March” series. Sunday, March 4, Kathy and Leo Lara perform music of the ...

Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

a bear bone with spaced holes from 50,000-60,000 years ago that is believed to be the oldest instrument in the world. Through December, Nova Gorica and Gorizia will see around 400 events in the ...