Dozens of young Turkish flag football players stretch on a field at Istanbul Technical University on March 1. ISTANBUL — At first glance, the scene of boisterous young athletes stretching…
Along with Earthrise and the Pillars of Creation, the Hubble Deep Field (HDF) photo of 1995 is one of astronomy’s most iconic photos. But if you were wowed by the…
Minnie Minoso, the hugely popular All-Star outfielder from Cuba who became the major league’s first black player out of Latin America and a treasured figure in the history of the…
LONDON — The British government on Saturday hardened its resistance to the Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s attempt to buy the energy subsidiary of the German utility RWE. Mr. Fridman’s company,…
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) stood by his opposition to same-sex marriage Friday, despite some speculation in recent days that he may be warming to the…
The British Association of Art Therapists defines art therapy as “a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of communication.” There are no limits on who…
Athletes on the women’s field hockey team at the University of California, Berkeley, are considering a lawsuit against the school for taking away their field to build a parking garage…
Every election cycle can be considered, first and foremost, a monument to hype. With every passing week, the political world is a blizzard of brash predictions, bold pronouncements and bad…
It’s a mere eight years since Ireland made its tournament debut. Back in 2007, they tied with Zimbabwe and picked up victories over Pakistan and Bangladesh. Four years on, there…
Most people assume that they know whether they are happy or not, but in reality, judging our own happiness can be very difficult. There is often a disconnect between what…
A field training accident on the Marine base in Twentynine Palms in Southern California left as many as two dozen people with inhalation related injuries on Thursday evening, fire officials…
Art lovers may soon be forbidden to take that perfectly positioned selfie in front of Van Gogh’s “Wheat Field With Cypresses,” and they can forget about taking one in front…
That’s where Dean Filppula, an offshore steward from Shreveport, Louisiana, found a yellow 2.01-carat diamond last week. It’s finders, keepers at the state park’s 37-acre search field, which is named…
The plane hit the transmitter tower of KCBD, knocking both the station off the air and power out in the surrounding neighborhood, before crashing into a field. Lubbock fire officials…
TRIPOLI, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Gunmen have stormed the al-Mabrook oilfield in central Libya, a spokesman for state-run National Oil Corp (NOC) said on Wednesday. Armed factions allied to two…
We’ve all been there. You sit down at your desk, intending to be productive, but you just … can’t. You look over your to-do list, trying to find the motivation…
Apparently there’s a little football game on this Sunday, but the dog lovers of the world will likely miss it all in favor of the television event that is Puppy…
Every week, tens of thousands of cats and dogs are euthanized in U.S. shelters. That’s millions of healthy, adoptable animals that are put down each year. The Lucy Pet Foundation…
Sculptures of soccer players lined the entrance to Marbella Football Center in San Pedro de Alcantara, Spain.” ESTEPONA, Spain — F.C. Basel, the best soccer team in Switzerland, went to…
Jan 23 (Reuters) – Yellowstone National Park has shipped at least 200 bison near the park boundary with Montana to slaughter as the famed tourist destination seeks to reduce a…
An engineering student’s dedication to her field has earned her praise from the president. – “It just gives me more fuel to go back to work,” she told the Idaho…
This summer the Grand-Place in the Belgian city of Mons will be transformed into a blaze of yellow, a field of 7,500 sunflowers celebrating the city’s turn as European capital…
You’re the real MVP, pantless Seahawks fan who somehow got on the field to drink whatever it is that is inside that bottle.
The 2016 Republican presidential field has been shaping up in more ways than one in the last week. Here’s who’s stirring the pot, and what they’re mixing in: Romney, Romney…
This, their teachers said, is the kind of learning that happens only when schools cut out the classroom and take learning on the road. In late February, students from the…