There is an added element in the Christmas trees in Ukraine—a Christmas Spider!  The folklore behind the tradition is that a poor widow and her children were startled to see a pinecone tear their ...

Here are ten times the dairy state took on acting roles of its own on the big screen.

From Catalonia to Caracas, the world has a slew of Christmas traditions, with some dating back hundreds of years, some barely ...

Baseball technology has come a long way since the days of the Iron Mike. Trajekt Arc uses data to mimic the way balls spin and break from every big league pitcher and has for the first time been ...

Don Haskins, credited with helping break color barriers in college sports in 1966 when he used five black starters to win a national basketball title for ...

Most Pokemon games sell tons of copies in stores, but these titles are unusual for selling just one copy each years after ...

That brings us to this list’s guiding sentiment, because while good animation is plentiful, vital selections meet a different ...

An 8-year-old boy survived one of Russia’s worst attacks on Ukrainian children. After, investigators — and his family — ...

Rare are the plants in our landscape that bloom in fall and winter, and perhaps that’s why camellias are such a treasured ...

The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, officials said Thursday ...

Tourists flock to the Kotoku-in Buddhist temple here to marvel at and shoot photos of the Great Buddha of Kamakura, one of ...

Monitor critic Peter Rainer turns the spotlight on the 10 movies that moved him over 2025. They include “Blue Moon,” “The ...