The ceremony went virtually unnoticed. On an overcast April day in South Africa’s administrative capital, Pretoria, President Cyril Ramaphosa delivered a lackluster speech commemorating the end of white-minority rule in…
One recent morning, Roop Rekha Verma, an 80-year-old peace activist and former university leader, walked through a north Indian neighborhood prone to sectarian strife and parked herself near a tea…
Bill Walton, a center whose extraordinary passing and rebounding skills helped him win two national college championships with U.C.L.A. and one each with the Portland Trail Blazers and Boston Celtics…
Scanning the Dark Universe, Euclid Finds Scenes of Cosmic Light By Katrina Miller Euclid, a European Space Agency telescope launched into space last summer, finally showed off what it’s capable…
Melisa Swearingen woke up early on Sunday morning as a tornado bore down on her home in the northwestern corner of Arkansas. As she raced down the stairs with her…
At the dawn of South Africa’s democracy after the fall of the racist apartheid government, millions lined up before sunrise to cast their ballots in the country’s first free and…
Why does this election matter? This year is the 30th anniversary of South Africa’s first democratic elections, but millions of people continue to suffer from economic challenges similar to those…
Deadly storms and tornados wreaked havoc in northern Texas, northwestern Arkansas, and some regions in Oklahoma and Kentucky. The weather left nearly 600,000 residents in 13 states without power, obliterated…
10 hours ago Holly Honderich,BBC News, Washington Thirty-four charges, 12 jurors, one often exasperated judge and a parade of witnesses. After nearly five weeks, both the prosecution and the defence…
Bill Walton, a National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Famer and one of the sport’s biggest broadcasters, has died at age 71. Walton died after a long battle with cancer,…