Love in conflict A car bomb ruined her life. Or so she thought
When Nahla al-Nadawi's husband was killed by a car bomb in Baghdad in 2007, she thought she'd never find love again. Then she met Aqeel. Read more...
Searching for a River to Skate Away On
It took decades for the writer and lifelong skater Joyce Maynard to find the perfect illusion of flight. Recently, on a frozen lake in Vermont, she did. Read more...
Anti-Semitic Comments Found Under a Chess Organizers Name
In the late 1990s, hundreds of anti-Semitic comments appeared on the Web under the name of Mansour Baghamian, a chess organizer than living in Houston. Mr. Baghamian said he did not write them. Who did? Read more...
A Scholar of Democracy Gets a 2020 Lab for His Ideas
Hes a senior adviser to Elizabeth Warren. He was one of Pete Buttigiegs groomsmen. For him, the debate between those two rivals on progressivism vs. centrism is personal. Read more...
Five Saudi men sentenced to 32 years in prison and 4,500 lashes for holding a Valentine's Day party with 'unrelated women, drinking and dancing'
The law breaking men were caught at a rented rest house in Al-Farouq area of Buraidah and accused of holding a party with women who were unrelated. Read more...
Europe can win global battle for industrial data, says EU industry chief
Europe may have lost the battle to create digital champions capable of taking on U.S. and Chinese companies harvesting personal data, but it can win the war of industrial data, Europe's industry policy chief said on Saturday. Read more...
An Iranian plane skidded off the runway onto a road
A passenger plane with 135 people on board has skidded off the runway in the Iranian city of Mahshahr and onto a road with its wheels still retracted -- and, miraculously, no one was hurt. Read more...
James Brown died in 2006. Now an Atlanta prosecutor is looking into it
An Atlanta prosecutor will examine singer James Brown's death after meeting Wednesday with a woman who said she has evidence that Brown was murdered. Read more...
Antoine Griezmann loving playing alongside Lionel Messi at Barcelona
Antoine Griezmann is loving playing alongside Lionel Messi at Barcelona as the pair try and form an intuition in attack. Griezmann was on target as Barca beat Getafe 2-1 on Saturday. Read more...
BP Pledges to Cut Emissions to Zero but Offers Few Details
It is the first oil giant to make a zero-emissions climate pledge that covers the burning of fuel it extracts. Read more...
Glamorous vegan activist refuses to stop trespassing
Brisbane animal rights activist Leah Doellinger, who has over 36,000 followers on Instagram, has been hauled before the courts over a dozen times since 2017. Read more...
Jonah Hill shows off his surfing skills in the waters of Malibu... six months after first go at it
Jonah Hill showed off his surfing skills in the waters of Malibu just six months after he conquered his lifelong fear of riding waves. Read more...
NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope Ends 16-Year Mission of Discovery
NASAs Spitzer space telescope spotted 7 Earth-size worlds orbiting another star, a new ring around Saturn and many more wonders in space. Read more...
Dominic Raab MUST tell Harry Dunn's family the truth about 'killer' spy Anne Sacoolas, says Labour
Labourhave branded Dominic Raab either 'a liar or an incompetent' over his handling of the Harry Dunn affair and the flight of his spy 'killer' and to come clean over when he found out about the US fugitive. Read more...
Test your wits with Craig Brown's festive literary quiz
Our book critic tests your knowledge of the best boosk released in 2019, with this fun, challenging literary quiz Read more...
A Grown-Up Bed That Will Last for Years
The right frame, mattress, and bedding can promote better rest and pull together the look of your entire room with a lot less effort and money than you might think. Read more...