In December, the Book Review Book Club will read and discuss Ian McEwan’s latest novel, about a long-lost poem, the 2014 dinner party where it was read and the future dystopia that embraced it. By MJ ...

Some drivers will go to surprising lengths to dodge tolls, but one particularly elaborate attempt has now landed its architect in hot water. Back in August, a motorist in Australia captured something ...

Investigators have found substandard protective nets that were not flame retardant, deliberately concealed by the contractors responsible for renovation work, at the high-rise blocks where Hong Kong’s ...

Investigators say contractors wrapped the buildings in substandard scaffolding netting and then sought to hide it from inspectors. The toll from the fire rose to 151. Green netting and bamboo ...

Bad luck can be seismic, a life-shattering act of god. More often, it’s mundane and self-perpetuated, no great sleight of destiny but merely the sum of a series of poor choices. In Fulfillment Centre, ...

One month after Sanae Takaichi became Japan's first female prime minister, young women share mixed views: from hope and empowerment to skepticism about real change. Some young women feel pleased, ...

Ian Machado Garry has made his latest pitch for a UFC welterweight title shot as he looks to build hype around a potential clash with Islam Makhachev. Machado Garry put on a clinic to ease past former ...

POLICE are investigating three separate fatal shootings over the weekend, including the murder of a 38-year-old Caroni man who was gunned down outside a bar in Kelly Village early Saturday morning ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - A popular Lehigh Valley book fair is kicking off on Thursday. Thousands of books and items have been donated for the 63rd Annual American Association of University Women Used Book ...

A senior judge presiding in an ongoing trial linked to the sale of Nama’s Northern Ireland loan book told the jury on Monday that the case against one of two accused cannot continue at this stage.

Sri Lankan authorities said Wednesday they would need some $7 billion to rebuild homes, industries and roads destroyed by Cyclone Ditwah, which has left at least 465 people dead so far. Hopes have ...

TCU guard Brock Harding was named to the Big 12 Starting Five on Monday. His first conference honor comes after his electric performances at the Rady Children’s Invitational in San Diego, CA, where he ...