For Lai, Hong Kong was everything that China was not - deeply capitalist, a land of opportunity and limitless wealth, and ...

German-born American actress Marlene Dietrich (center) is surrounded by fans July 14, 1939, during the Bastille Day ball at Paris Opera Square. About 100 pieces of clothing and accessories Dietrich ...

America's new top health diplomat is Bethany Kozma. The job she took on this week — leading the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Global Affairs — does not have a high profile. And ...

Photographer Francis Ford, a portrait master who documented Milwaukee's creative scene for decades, died Dec. 14.

It’s a well-known origin story: how the young and wealthy Francis of Assisi freely abandoned his noble patrimony to serve Christ’s Church as a poor, itinerant preacher. One of the world’s most beloved ...

China criticized the U.S. for seizing oil tankers off the coast of Venezuela, signaling it stands with Caracas as its confrontation with Washington intensifies.

A senior Russian general was killed after a bomb exploded in his car in Moscow, according to investigators who pointed suspicion for the assassination at Ukraine.

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