I always get sneezy and congested around the holidays. Is my Christmas tree to blame?
Shortly before the first domestic flight since Bashar Assad’s fall landed at Aleppo International Airport late Wednesday morning, the final preparations were still being made.
When the hammer fell at Christie’s in Manhattan on May 15, 1990, a Vincent van Gogh painting, “Portrait of Dr Gachet,” set the record at the time for the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, going to a Japanese paper magnate for $82.5 million.
The 13-year civil war between Syria’s government and rebel fighters has ended. But the peril is not over for Syria’s Kurdish minority.
Before this year, Tobias Kammann, a German container ship captain, had only once sailed around the southern tip of Africa, and the lack of other vessels in the little-trafficked waters made him feel very much alone.
Rebel forces have swept through Syria and forced former President Bashar Assad out of the country where his family had ruled with an iron fist since the early 1970s.
When I first discovered the existence of made-for-television Christmas movies, maybe 15 years ago, they struck me as sentimental and anti-feminist.
After climate change brought another year of record-breaking heat and dwindling rainfall to Greece, the reservoirs that supply water to Athens have dropped to their lowest levels in over a decade. Farmers are struggling to produce crops, wildfires have increased the demand for water and priests are conducting prayers for rain.
In May 2010, Laszlo Hanyecz, an early cryptocurrency enthusiast, used Bitcoin to buy two pizzas from Papa John’s. He spent 10,000 Bitcoins, or roughly $40 at the time, in one of the first purchases ever made with the digital currency.
Electrolyte drinks, ibuprofen, a bagel overflowing with bacon, egg and cheese – everyone has their own way of nursing a hangover.
Almost five years after COVID blew into our lives, the main thing standing between us and the next global pandemic is luck. And with the advent of flu season, that luck may well be running out.
Daisy Harris likes birds – there’s one outside her window. Her cat is named Fluffy, and she’d love to tell you about her knitting hobby. She likes tea and biscuits. And she just can’t seem to figure out this internet thing.
Denmark, known for its inventive restaurants and elegant design studios, is about to become known for something more basic: the world’s first belch and manure tax.
After an hour or so of scrolling through Bluesky the other night, I felt something I haven’t felt on social media in a long time: free.
China’s recent breach of the innermost workings of the US telecommunications system reached far deeper than the Biden administration has described, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday, with hackers able to listen in on telephone conversations and read text messages.
In the outbound dock of an Amazon warehouse near Nashville, Tennessee, a robotic arm named Cardinal on a recent day stacked packages, Tetris-style, into 6 1/2-foot-high carts.
Russia’s military made its largest territorial gains in more than two years in October, as it pressed farther into Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region — but at a heavy cost.
After two centuries of faithfully guiding sailors around a blustery headland in southwest Scotland, the lighthouse needed some attention.
Getting around the West Bank is never easy, but it’s a lot harder if you are Palestinian. That’s no accident. We rode along on two bus trips, one for Israelis, the other for Palestinians, that tell a story of separate and unequal roadways.
We have entered a new political era. For the past 40 years or so, we lived in the information age.
You might be excited about Election Day, dreading it, or desperate for it to be over. Regardless, it is here. But the end of this high-drama presidential campaign on election night may not bring immediate clarity about who has won.
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