Anti-government street protests are not just a feature of countries abutting the Mediterranean—they’ve now taken root in one on the Black Sea. In February, protesters in Bulgaria, an Eastern European nation of 7 million people, …
Prince William and Duchess Catherine emerge from St. Mary’s Hospital in London with their baby boy, who has yet to be named. This is the first public appearance of the royal baby, but certainly not the last.
Addressing the weary press outside St. Mary’s Hospital, Prince William finally presented his newborn son and apologized for …
“Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Cambridge was safely delivered of a son at 4.24pm” read a statement from Kensington Palace, heralding the arrival of the British royal family’s latest issue—a boy who is now third in line to …
Plans to create new ports could harm the world’s largest living structure. A look at Australia’s underwater treasure as its fate hangs in the balance.
Just as they have done for 17 centuries, the Greek Orthodox monks of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Egypt’s Sinai desert and the local Jabaliya Bedouins worked together to protect the monastery when the 2011 revolution thrust …
Nelson Mandela, the revolutionary-turned-prisoner-turned-president who led South Africa out of apartheid and into an era of political and racial reconciliation, passed away on Dec. 5, 2013. He was 95. As both the father of his …
The famed nine-day San Fermin fiestas kicked off July 6 in the northeastern Spanish town of Pamplona with age-old scenes of kerchief-clad revelers confronting (and retreating from) the fiesta’s fighting bulls
Violence flared across Egypt as supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood, the party of ex-President Mohamed Morsi, clashed with the opposition
The Egyptian military stepped in July 3 to remove the country’s democratically elected, though increasingly unpopular, President Mohamed Morsi. As his opponents celebrated, his outraged supporters, including the Muslim …
After 14 years, two children and a close shave with a cream pie, Rupert Murdoch, 82, filed for divorce from his wife Wendi Deng, 44, on Thursday, saying that their relationship had “broken down irretrievably.” Deng became an …
As security experts, law enforcement officials and the public at-large ponders where NSA surveillance leaker James Snowden will end up next, we look back at 10 other whistle-blowers and what came after their well-publicized actions
The first half of 2013 has been marked by a number of industrial disasters that have claimed lives all over the world
