Sergey Karyakin, a chess grandmaster born in Crimea — the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014 — has been ...

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If you create an authoritarian state in the home that raises people to expect and empathize with violence, then what you ...

In April 1983, a British newspaper, The Sunday Times, claimed to be printing an extraordinary historical document. In fact, the forged diaries were an extraordinary hoax.

Photographer Rob Ball turns his lens on Benidorm, a skyscraper-packed tourist metropolis dubbed the “New York of the ...