Northern Lights Photos: Aurora Borealis Lights Up the Night Sky
People in Britain marveled at the unusual and spectacular sight of the northern lights on Friday night, the consequence of a severe solar storm that was brewing and was expected…
Nemo Wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland
The run-up to this Saturday’s Eurovision Song Contest final in Malmo, Sweden, was unusually tense and anguished, with months of protests over Israel’s involvement in the competition, a contestant suspended…
Ukraine’s Seaborne Grain Exports Bounce Back to Near Prewar Levels
The 700-foot Liberian-flagged ship slowly sailed out of the Ukrainian port of Odesa, past rows of yellow cranes and into the still waters of the Black Sea. Its hull was…
Russian Attacks Open a New Front in Ukraine
As fighting continued to flare along the Russia-Ukraine border on Saturday, civilians fleeing for their lives stepped out of evacuation vans one by one, some on unsteady legs. An older…
Northern Lights Set to Return Tonight as Extreme Solar Storm Continues
Night skies in many parts of the Northern Hemisphere are expected to bloom again on Saturday night with the vivid colors of the northern lights, or aurora borealis, as a…
Eberhard Kornfeld, Art Dealer, Collector and Historian, Is Dead at 99
For more than a half-century, Eberhard Kornfeld, a renowned art auctioneer, dealer, collector and scholar, presided over an annual June auction under a tent adjoining his Galerie Kornfeld, which made…
British Colleges Are Handling Protests Differently. Will It Pay Off?
Palestinian flags fluttered in the breeze above two neat rows of orange and green tents on Thursday at Cambridge University, where students read, talked and played chess at a small…
Aiming for Rosier Ties, Xi Wraps Up Europe Visit
The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, received a gift of fine cognac at the Élysée Palace in Paris and was cheered in Belgrade by Serbians waving Chinese flags, albeit most of…
Satellite Images Reveal Where Russian Nuclear Weapons Could Be Stored in Belarus
These new security features and other upgrades at a munitions depot in central Belarus reveal that Russia is building facilities there that could house nuclear warheads. If Russia does move…
A Global Lesson from Britain’s Crumbling Conservative Party
“We did it,” Boris Johnson, Britain’s new prime minister, announced to a rapturous crowd of supporters on Dec. 13, 2019. “We pulled it off.” Johnson was referring to the Conservative…