On an April evening in 1836, two collaborators working on what would become one of the most popular novels of the 19th century met in London. The guest was the project’s illustrator, the comic artist Robert Seymour, whose speed and visual wit had mad ...

The Silk Road saga had a stunning coda in April, when two of the federal agents who investigated the site were charged with stealing from it as well. One of those two agents has now reached a plea deal with prosecutors. Shaun Bridges, a computer expe ...

In January 1946, George Orwell published a review of a fairly obscure Russian novel titled We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, in the Tribune. Originally released in New York in 1921 after being banned prior to publication in Russia, We had recently been transl ...

Foo Fighters announced Tuesday the cancellation of the band’s remaining tour dates in Europe due to lead singer Dave Grohl’s injuries. Grohl broke his leg in a fall during a June 12 show at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg, Sweden, and his recuperati ...

The FBI must decide which is more important: strong cybersecurity or the ability to read every message we send

Tourists visiting Europe are often advised to travel by train rather than plane or car. Trains are considered reliable, fast and relatively cheap. But as a new research project shows, there are major differences within Europe: Whereas you can travel ...

A university friend of marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison after apologising to Boston residents for impeding the investigation while police hunted the suspects. Azamat Tazhayakov, 21, was convicte ...

A B.C. Supreme Court jury has found John Nuttall and Amanda Korody guilty for plotting a 2013 Canada Day attack on the B.C. Legislature. The couple is guilty of one count each of conspiring to commit murder and possessing explosives for the benefit o ...

In what may be the largest study ever conducted on changes in Americans’ religious involvement, researchers led by San Diego State University psychology professor Jean M. Twenge found that millennials are the least religious generation of the last si ...

A Reed Smith partner sizes up the FCC's new rules on robocalling and says consumers and class-action lawyers win and businesses lose.

Chickens scurried about on Friday morning as a bulldozer spread crushed rock for a new soccer field with artificial turf at the Cayman Islands Football Association. It might seem unlikely that FIFA, soccer’s world governing body, has spent $2.2 milli ...

Mozambique lost 48 percent of its elephants from poaching in the past five years—a decline from 20,000 to 10,300—the Wildlife Conservation Society reported on Tuesday. Earlier this month, authorities confiscated 65 rhino horns and 1.2 tons of elephan ...

They couldn't be rattled. They couldn't be denied. Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar had worked too hard and come close too many times not to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee.

The White House has formally announced that the NSA’s program of collecting American phone records in bulk will finally come to an end. “I understand they have started winding down the program,” White House Press Secretary Seth Earnest said in his pr ...

A female gorilla at Melbourne Zoo has died of complications from injuries inflicted by a young male gorilla. Melbourne Zoo staff said Otana, the silverback - as adult males are called - had been displaying an "unexpected level of aggression" ...

R.A. the Rugged Man presents one of the best young rappers in the game, 17 year old A-F-R-O who proves he can go off the head and spit vicious unrehearsed multis at the same time. A-F-R-O was recently involved in a near fatal car wreck and is perform ...

cientologists profess a range of supernatural powers. They claim the ability to turn drunk people sober in minutes. A Scientologist can heal the traumatized, so they say, simply by reconnecting a victim’s body with a “thetan,” or immortal spirit. Non ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken to the ice in one of Sochi's Olympic sports arenas. The state leader played along the country's other top officials, sportsmen and businessmen in an NHL (Night Hockey League) match.

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In the early 2000s, the phrase "lost decade" began to be applied to Japan's economic performance during the 1990s. The lost decade started with the popping of one of the greatest stock-market bubbles in history. Japan's Nikkei 225 ...