Soot from the burning of the Amazon rain-forest and vast wetlands known as the Pantanal is headed for South America’s largest city, threatening to turn day into night. A giant dark cloud coming ...

Re “The Many Layers of the Veil,” Column One, Jan. 12: I’ve been following the fierce worldwide debate on the hijab since the mid-1990s when, as a cub reporter at Canada’s national ...

From time to time it is well to separate the facts from the mythology and propaganda that enshroud the Arab-Israeli conflict. The first point is that the nation-state and those neat lines on ...

Is she the Virgin Mary? The Blessed Mother? The Madonna? Our Lady of Lourdes? Queen of Heaven? Mother of God? . .These multiple identities of Mary, peasant woman of Nazareth, are definitions by ...

Instead, Cleopatra's appeal must have come from within. She spoke Greek, the language of Egypt's Hellenistic rulers at that time, as well as eight other tongues. More a siren than a Venus ...

Rows of dawn redwood trees along an avenue in the west Japan city of Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, create a lush arcade of red and brown autumn leaves, as seen on Nov. 28, 2021. About 500 dawn ...

Disaster hit an upmarket housing complex on Durban's outskirts, December 23rd 2014, when more than 200 000 litres of diesel poured out of an underground pipeline. The pipeline operated by Transnet ...