Karl Bushby made a barroom bet that he could walk from the southern tip of South America all the way home to England. His friends had little faith.
About five surfers tried to help the dog onto the jetty, but she got spooked and jumped back into the water, where she was pulled out by a powerful rip current and ...
Of all the ways to understand President Donald Trump’s belligerence toward Venezuela - as a campaign against “narcoterrorists,” a play for its oil reserves, a desire ...
The World Cup draw, which ostensibly exists solely to announce the schedule of matches but historically has been a way for the host country to show off at maximum ...
As climate change makes it harder to grow Arabica coffee beans, some farmers are investing in robusta, which produces a more bitter bean but can tolerate higher ...
Playing music, dancing, creating art - and even playing some types of video games - aren’t just immersive and emotionally rewarding. They may actually slow down ...
Researchers gave 10 people with HIV a complex regimen of experimental immunotherapies, then discontinued the daily pills that kept the virus at bay.
Shortly after Amanda McCowan’s divorce, she met her ex-husband’s new girlfriend. She couldn’t stand her. And yet, about 10 years after they first met, McCowen did ...
Each participant must run to nine Taco Bells scattered across Alexandria, Arlington, and the District. At each location, they must purchase and eat an item off the ...
In her first holiday back in charge of White House decor, Melania presented a straightforward, even understated - at least by White House standards - look on a tour ...
The European Union’s highest court ruled Tuesday that all member states should honor the civil status of same-sex couples married anywhere else in the bloc, regardless ...
On his first international trip as pontiff, Pope Leo XIV arrived Thursday in Turkey - site of the ancient summit - to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the ...
Her pragmatic style stands in contrast to the current trend in cities of handing power to ideologues. “I used to hate it when people called me pragmatic,” she told ...
Tens of thousands of Israelis have left the country over the past two years, with numbers spiking during the summer of 2023.
Chef Aiman doesn’t physically cook; it creates. It can analyze ingredients, generate unconventional flavor combinations and write detailed recipes that human chefs ...
Viola Fletcher, one of the last two known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre and a plaintiff in a symbolic lawsuit seeking reparations for the attack - one ...
From the first dish, he knew the meal would be a disappointment “because the chives were badly chopped.” If a chef couldn’t be bothered with the little things, they ...
In recent years the Taj has also become a contested site, targeted by those determined to recast India’s pluralist history. The symbol of love is now a flash point ...
The Frida Kahlo self-portrait “El sueño (La cama)” shattered the auction record for a work by a female artist, selling for $55 million at Sotheby’s on Thursday.
Researchers looked at data spanning a decade and involving more than ten thousand relatively healthy people, aged 70 and older. People who listened to music most ...
The complaint about his activities that arrived in a plain business envelope has spiraled into a months-long saga that is poised to change the law for all hobby ...
South Africa has about one-fifth of the global population of people living with HIV and historically has received the largest share of U. S. funding for HIV prevention. ...
In a chilling reminder of unresolved grief, Virginia police have finally traced a link between a suspected serial killer and a teen’s brutal murder from 1988, igniting ...
One minute he's claiming he's ended seven wars and deserves the Nobel Peace Prize - the next minute he's planning to go to war.
The inevitable fracturing of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is in sight, the instigator of its rupture that most narcissistic and destructive of media personalities: ...