JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not attend the memorial ceremony for Nelson Mandela due to high travel costs, Israeli media reported Monday.
Netanyahu reportedly changed his plans to attend the ceremony after ...
WASHINGTON -- Several years ago, a senior officer in the CIA clandestine service attended a closed-door conference for overseas operatives. Speakers included case officers who were working in the manner Hollywood usually portrays spies -- out on ...
NEW YORK -- New York's smallest museum has reached its capacity of three, and Nicholas Kokkinis, volunteer docent, feels obliged to amuse the waiting crowd.
He points to the museum cafe (a cappuccino machine mounted on the wall) and gift shop (...
Historian Michael G. Kammen began his career steeped in colonial America. But the era quickly proved too intellectually confining for a man who over the course of a prolific career examined such diverse topics as controversies over public art and ...
A massive planet found orbiting a star at a staggeringly great distance is smashing some long-held theories of planetary formation, researchers say.
The planet, according to a study published online last week in the Astrophysical Journal Letters,...
SEATTLE -- At the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq a decade ago, Wasfi Rabaa was a high-ranking police official in Baghdad, enjoying a comfortable life with his family on the outskirts of that city.
The Rabaas are Mandeans, a religious minority ...