Harvard University for decades assumed it had a cheap copy of the Magna Carta in its collection, a stained and faded document it bought in 1946 for $27.50 — about $450 (¥65,000) in 2025 dollars. But ...

If you’re looking for an authentic day trip experience from London, you can’t go wrong with Bournemouth, just a couple of hours from the capital. Bournemouth is no stranger to celebrities. It was here ...

Former Uruguayan President José Mujica, a onetime Marxist guerrilla and flower farmer whose radical brand of democracy, plain-spoken philosophy and simple lifestyle fascinated the world, died on May ...

The Cannes Film Festival red carpet is perhaps the most rigidly controlled red carpet in the world. Now, the festival has added a new stipulation: No nudity. While nudity was never previously endorsed ...

A suicide bomber in Mogadishu on May 18 targeted recruits waiting to register at a military camp, killing at least 13 and wounding 21, witnesses said. Somalia’s capital has been repeatedly targeted by ...

The unofficial national fruit of New Zealand isn’t native to the country — it’s South American. It isn’t exclusively found in New Zealand. And it’s not, perhaps surprisingly, the kiwi. It’s the feijoa ...

A 31-year-old Japanese man has achieved the feat of dribbling a soccer ball for about 2,000 kilometers across India, taking around 2½ months to go from Kolkata to New Delhi. After breaking the finish ...

A lawyer for former popular television personality Masahiro Nakai has refuted a third-party committee’s report that found Nakai committed “sexual violence” against a former Fuji TV announcer. “There ...

Tom Cruise hit the Cannes Film Festival’s red carpet on May 14 to a live band rendition of the Mission: Impossible theme song as organizers pulled out all the stops to celebrate what may be the action ...

Police arrested a 42-year-old Chinese man May 18 in connection with a hit-and-run incident in Saitama Prefecture that injured several schoolchildren May 14. The suspect, Deng Hongpeng, has admitted ...

Alexander Yashin hears opera in the smell of clover. Blind from birth, the 31-year-old can see only light and shadow. Perched on his work stool in the laboratory of the Moscow perfumery where he ...

Maya： Zack, hi. Sorry about the other day. I was stuck in meetings for forever. I’m ready to hear the rest of that presentation, if you still have some time now. Zack： All done, I’m afraid. But it ...