Month: November 2019

The morning after the Berlin Wall came crashing down in November 1989, nine-year-old Thomas Töpfer was one of the few East German kids who turned up for school. He found his teacher in tears and half his classmates gone, having fled with their families to the West. Everything Töpfer and his fellow pupils had been

ABC is bringing back its popular “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” variety special for the holidays, this time including episodes from the 1970s sitcom “Good Times,” as well as more from “All in the Family,” the network said. The specials remake classic episodes of trailblazing producer Norman Lear‘s most popular TV shows in

The Bay Area has many murals, with images of everyone from Robin Williams to Nipsey Hussle gracing its buildings. Now, there’s a new name to add to that list: Greta Thunberg. A mural of the Swedish teenage climate activist, whose movement has caught the attention of the world, is set to be completed next Tuesday.

A man and his daughter abducted and raped a Las Vegas woman, taking her to California and holding her about a week before she was “left to die” outside Edwards Air Force Base in California’s Mojave Desert, investigators said. Among the charges against Stanley Lawton, 54, and his daughter Shaniya Poche-Lawton, 22, are kidnapping to

India’s Supreme Court on Saturday granted Hindus permission to build a temple at the centuries-old Ayodhya holy site, ending one of the country’s most politically charged land disputes. The 2.77 acres, previously claimed by both Hindus and Muslims, was the site of a 16th-century mosque demolished by right-wing mobs in 1992 in Ayodhya, a town

European leaders gathered in Berlin on Saturday to mark 30 years since the fall of the wall that divided East and West Berlin, where German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Europe to defend democracy and freedom. Leaders from Central and Eastern Europe gathered in the German capital to celebrate the pivotal moment in history that marked

The general manager of a Buffalo Wild Wings in the Boston area died after two cleaning agents combined to create toxic fumes in the restaurant’s kitchen, officials said. The incident at the restaurant in Burlington began around 5:30 p.m. Thursday, with workers and customers, some coughing, streaming out of the facility as fumes spread, witnesses