After Darrell Simester, then 30, went missing on vacation at a south Wales seaside resort in Aug. 2000, his family didn’t see him again for almost 13 years. They never gave up trying to find the “vulnerable” and “timid” Simester — and their perseverance eventually paid off. In March 2013, an anonymous tip-off led Simester’s …
Nearly 18 years after the war ended, the scars of war are visible in Bosnia, whose 4 million-strong population still live in a society shaped by the bloody conflict that sundered the former Yugoslavia. There’s the bullet-marked …
The christening of Prince George, the first child of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, will be an “intimate, family affair” attended by a limited number of members of the Royal Family, reports The Times. In a break with more formal royal tradition, several senior members of the family will not be attending – including the Duke of …
Sachin Tendulkar, the legendary Indian cricket batsman, has announced that he will retire from the sport next month. The 40-year-old former India captain, profiled by TIME last year as the “God of Cricket” and the …
Sachin Tendulkar will step away from the sport next month
Experts have warned that Madagascar faces a bubonic plague epidemic unless it slows the spread of the disease, reports the BBC. The Red Cross and Pasteur Institute have said the inmates in the island’s dirty, crowded jails are particularly at risk.
The number of cases rises each October as the hot, humid weather attracts fleas, …
Activists compare ruling to Soviet era jailing of dissidents
Hoping for end to six-year slump
Unclear exactly when they’ll return home
Leader says it ‘will show the world Russia the way it is and the way we love it’
