Midcoast author Peter Brown says he was thrilled to hear that the film "The Wild Robot," inspired by his book, got three Oscar nominations Thursday. But he wasn't surprised. "Director Chris Sanders ...

Pope Francis has said he wants to give women greater leadership roles in the Roman Catholic Church. If he really wants to ...

Here’s a slightly irreverent look at some of those famous folk with less known Yorkshire roots. So not Patrick Stewart, Sean ...

Iconic songs by Sam Cooke, Kim Weston, Public Enemy, Nina Simone, Marvin Gaye, Lauryn Hill, Kendrick Lamar and more depict ...

Jamie Foxx has played musical icons, sports stars, and Marvel supervillains. In "Back in Action," he plays a CIA agent. Here ...

Manfred Goldberg was just 13 years old when — stripped to his skin and shuffling toward an SS guard at a Nazi labor camp in ...

A teenager whose discovery in a locked shed led to the arrest of her adoptive parents testified Friday that she and her ...

The slave trade in the Tudor period During the Tudor ... On the outside are two figures carved in a precious stone called sardonyx. The brown and white layers of the stone were carefully carved ...

Today in History for Jan. 24: ...

The following is a feature that originally ran in the Valley Living, a quarterly magazine of the Valley Times-News. Riding ...

The Red Army soldiers who reached the Auschwitz concentration camp on Jan. 27, 1945, looked into the abyss of an ...

Peter Brown, who has died aged 83, captained the Scotland rugby union side 10 times and led his country to three victories over England inside the space of a year in the early 1970s. Playing in ...