As the spring sunshine falls on the dust and smears of winter, minds turn to spring cleaning – but not for long.

It’s not always snobbery: there’s a real fascination with “discovery” wines and the genuine desire to tell others about their ...

A German Jewish refugee, he became a decorated CIA officer, facing off with the Soviets in Berlin, before resigning to lead ...

Peter Sichel, who has died aged 102, was a German Jewish émigré to the US who oversaw postwar CIA activities in Eastern Europe and the Far East until, disillusioned, he resigned to take over his ...

He played a crucial role in the early days of the C.I.A., as a station chief in Cold War Berlin and Hong Kong, before ...

After working as a spy during World War II and the Cold War, he returned to his family’s wine business, where he helped build Blue Nun into one of America’s favorite wines. Sichel passed away Feb. 24.

In the wine world, Sichel is most famous for having driven Blue Nun Liebfraumlich to the top of the sales tree in the 1980s: 1.3 million cases of a dozen bottles a year sold in the US, not to mention ...

And from that simple statement of fact builds Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” a bittersweet biopic of sorts that premiered on Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival. Pitched halfway between ...

Katalin Bánffy was born on June 5 1924 in Budapest. Her father, Count Miklós Bánffy de Losoncz, scion of one of Hungary’s oldest aristocratic families , had in 1916 organised the coronation ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. FILE— In this Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 file photo, Pope Francis shakes hands with Sister Raffaella Petrini ...

Devil’s Grin Gin was the Best in Show Gin and automatically advanced to the prestigious San Francisco World Spirits Competition.