joseh51camera/iStock (JERUSALEM) — Dozens have been killed and many more injured in a stampede late Thursday in Israel at Mount Meron during Lag BaOmer festivities. Magen Daviv Adom, Israel’s national emergency medical services, said there were Read More
DZarzycka/iStock (LONDON) — President Harry Truman installed the first White House bowling alley. As first lady, Hillary Clinton built a music room. The Obamas introduced a basketball court, later converted by the Trumps into a tennis pavilion. Presidents through Read More
Chernobylexplorer (KYIV, Ukraine) — For the guide who sneaks people into the Chernobyl “Exclusion Zone,” the crucial moment is when you cross over the barbed wire fencing that marks its edge. “You don’t know what might happen after. The police may Read More
KeithBinns/iStock (NEW YORK) — India is caught in the throes of a ferocious second wave of coronavirus, with the nation’s health authority reporting 360,960 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday alone, the seventh consecutive day with over 300,000 new Read More
Mark Cuthbert/UK Press via Getty Images (LONDON) — One decade ago, the eyes of the world were fixed on Westminster Abbey, where Prince William, the oldest son of Prince Charles and the late Princess Diana, wed Catherine Middleton, who grew up in Berkshire and met Read More
yorkfoto/iStock (BEILIU CITY, China) — A knife-wielding man broke into a school in southern China on Wednesday and killing two children and wounding 16 others, according to local authorities. A man with the last name of Zeng, 24, began the attack around 2 p.m. at Read More
Anwar Hussein/Getty Images (LONDON) — Princess Diana’s iconic wedding dress is one the world will never forget, and now it will be placed in a new location at Kensington Palace. The legendary gown, being loaned by her sons Princes William and Harry, will be on Read More
RollingEarth/iStock (NEW YORK) — Saving the environment can also lead to one step further toward world peace, according to a new report. Countries with scarce natural resources tend to be more prone to armed conflict, so the conservation and sustainable management Read More
MarkRubens/iStock (NEW YORK) — Born into a life of service. That’s how Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini, the firstborn of Eswatini’s new generation of royals, describes her life. The princess, the eldest of King Mswati III’s 36 children, also serves as the Read More
mtcurado/iStock (LONDON) — Jihyun Park had something of a political awakening at the start of the pandemic last year. Moved by stories of care homes struggling with PPE, and the elderly isolated from their loved ones in her town of Bury, England, she organized in Read More
