27 maj, 2022
Dervla Murphy, Irish Travel Writer Who Preferred Her Bike, Dies at 90
A curious, intrepid loner, she famously went from Dunkirk through Europe and then to Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India — mostly on two wheels.
27 maj, 2022
Margot Heuman, Who Bore Witness to the Holocaust as a Gay Woman, Dies at 94
She was a rare survivor who spoke — in recent years — of her same-sex relationship in the concentration camps, and how it sustained her.
27 maj, 2022
Italian Bishops to Examine Clerical Abuse, but Only to a Point
The Italian Bishops’ Conference on Friday presented its plan to investigate clerical abuse, but critics say it is insufficient and disappointing.
27 maj, 2022
A Putin Opponent From Russia Leads Fighters Against His Home Country
“The hottest place to fight against the regime was in Ukraine,” says a unit commander who has been a volunteer soldier for his adopted country on and off since 2015.
27 maj, 2022
Russian Academics Aim to Punish Colleagues Who Backed Ukraine Invasion
A campaign is circulating a list of dozens of researchers in the hopes they will be denied the prestige of election into the Russian Academy of Sciences.
27 maj, 2022
Abba Returns to the Stage in London. Sort Of.
The Swedish superstars — or digital versions of them, at least — performed on Thursday to 3,000 enthusiastic fans with the help of 140 animators, four body doubles and $175 million.
27 maj, 2022
Displaced Ukrainians Learn to Detect Mines.
Courses in western Ukraine, meant for volunteer defenders, are now open to Ukrainian civilians whose villages have been blighted by war.