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  • Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

    Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

    Welcome back for another round of recommendations, and what an exciting bunch they are! Trust us – friends don’t lie.

    Not only is the final season of Stranger Things about to turn our world’s upside down, there’s also the sequel to…

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  • Five dead in suicide bombing on paramilitary headquarters

    Five dead in suicide bombing on paramilitary headquarters

    Two suicide bombers have attacked the headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary force on Monday, killing three security officials and wounding at least 12 people.

    Police told BBC Urdu that the attackers were armed as they charged at the Federal…

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  • Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’ | Film

    Monkey soulmates and extraordinary talent: the man Charlie Chaplin called ‘the greatest actor in the world’ | Film

    Jean Vigo’s L’Atalante, his poetic and surreal 1934 romance about a young couple living on a canal barge, is one of the most beautiful, sensual films of all time. Dita Parlo and Jean Dasté play the newlyweds getting awkwardly accustomed to…

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  • Science history: Iconic ‘Lucy’ fossil discovered, transforming our understanding of human evolution — Nov. 24, 1974

    Science history: Iconic ‘Lucy’ fossil discovered, transforming our understanding of human evolution — Nov. 24, 1974

    QUICK FACTS

    Milestone: Fossil “Lucy” discovered

    When: Nov. 24, 1974

    Where: Hadar, Ethiopia

    Who: Anthropologists Donald Johanson and Tom Gray

    More than 50 years ago, two anthropologists were digging in Hadar, Ethiopia, when they spotted something…

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  • Nanooks Place Fifth at Northwest Collegiate Invite

    Nanooks Place Fifth at Northwest Collegiate Invite

    BOISE, Idaho – The Alaska Nanooks swimming team officially concluded the Northwest Collegiate Invite on Sunday,…

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