Growing up as a Sikh boy in South Texas, Simran Jeet Singh longed for books with characters who looked like him and his family. But each visit to a…
Continue Reading Imagine quarantining with 14 children. Karen and Deon Derrico are living that life now, but it’s not much different from their pre-pandemic…
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Two female gentoo penguins are new moms at an aquarium in Spain and are raising the baby chick they adopted as an egg. Officials at Oceanogràfic…
Continue Reading Happy birthday, Sean Connery! The first James Bond turned 90 on Tuesday, as difficult as that is to believe. It’s true: Connery was born August…
Continue Reading Add “The West Wing” to the list of TV reunions in the age of coronavirus, but this time, they’re coming together for a specific…
Continue Reading Once one of the world’s most powerful travel documents, the might of the US passport has shriveled under the cloud of coronavirus, with doors…
Continue Reading The Primetime Emmys are still being planned as a live show, and producers have less than a month to figure out exactly how to safely pull it off amid…
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AGUASCALIENTES, Mexico — Viridiana Álvarez Chávez was 28 when she first started exercising. She was 36 when she broke the Guinness World…
Continue Reading Boarding in the Italian port of Genoa for a seven-day Mediterranean cruise on August 16, travel agent Valeria Belardi prepared herself for a voyage…
Continue Reading Rachel Adams-Kaplan knew the detailed schedule of summer camp long before she attended. Her father started going to Camp Green Lane in southeast…
Continue Reading A pair of spectacles thought to belong to Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi sold at auction for £260,000 ($340,000) — more than 17…
Continue Reading Priyam Saini and Anuj Dhir were living in different Australian cities when they met on an Indian matrimonial matchmaking site last June. By February,…
Continue Reading Singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle has died, according to a Sunday announcement from his representatives. He is the son of country rocker Steve…
Continue Reading Northern Cyprus says it will soon reopen the derelict district of Varosha, a once popular tourist resort that has remained a ghost town since the…
Continue Reading The world’s largest nudist resort is at the center of a Covid-19 outbreak with nearly 150 people testing positive after staying at or visiting…
Continue Reading The Season 3 finale of “Yellowstone” on Sunday was pretty brutal. The TV drama follows the lives of the Dutton family who on the show own…
Continue Reading For more than a century, Bulgaria has had little trouble enticing people to its beach resorts scattered along the Black Sea coast. City-breakers head…
Continue Reading It doesn’t sound like he would anyway, but John Oliver may not want to visit Danbury, Connecticut, anytime soon. The talk show host has run…
Continue Reading Ellen DeGeneres has been getting some bad press lately, but Sofia Vergara is saying she’s not a part of that. There have been allegations of a…
Continue Reading Korean pop stars BTS have made history after the group’s new single “Dynamite” became the best-ever 24-hour debut of a music video…
Continue Reading Officials in Sydney have admitted the city’s 10 new ferries don’t fit under some of its bridges, with passengers sitting on its viewing…
Continue Reading Gold diggers in southern Australia have found two huge nuggets worth $350,000 AUD ($250,000 USD) in historic goldfields. The pair of nuggets weigh in…
Continue Reading Tower Bridge, one of London’s most famous landmarks, was stuck open Saturday afternoon due to “mechanical failure,” causing traffic…
Continue Reading Solomon the tortoise went on quite an adventure during an unplanned summer vacation, even though he didn’t go far from home. The 150-pound…
Continue Reading After months of uncertainty, the Tony Awards will go on, show organizers say. The Tonys, originally scheduled for June, will take place this fall…
Continue Reading Celebrities across Hollywood are coming to Megan Thee Stallion’s defense after she shed more light this week on her July shooting. During an…
Continue Reading Ever since the coronavirus pandemic shuttered clubs, bars and concert halls around the world, music fans have been dreaming of the day they can once…
Continue Reading Cracks and sinkholes are appearing alongside the waterways of Amsterdam. Bicycles are tumbling into the swirling water as the canalsides vanish…
Continue Reading Jack Sherman, a guitarist who played on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ debut album, has died at 64, the band announced on Instagram. “He was…
Continue Reading Dr. Asma Rashid goes to a lot of exclusive parties in New York these days — but for a different reason. Hosts pay her to administer rapid…
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