Someone dropped a North African palace on a Mississippi River bluff in Quincy, Illinois, and the whole state has been quietly pretending this is normal ever since. Villa Kathrine stands there like an ...

Solvang, California, a town with rich Danish heritage located between Los Angeles and San Francisco, transforms into a ...

Celebrating the details most people overlook, the Close-up Photographer of the Year (CUPOTY) has unveiled the stunning shortlisted images in its 2025 contest.

Fans of Disney’s “Frozen” will recognize familiar elements from Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale in this beloved ...

Shrek revolutionized animated comedies, and many great ones have come out since, from Oscar winners like Finding Nemo to fan ...

Paris is magical, but sometimes you need a break from the city lights, cafés, and endless boulevards. Luckily, France is ...

Simon Wilson is an award-winning senior writer covering politics, the climate crisis, transport, housing, urban design and social issues. He joined the Herald in 2018. Proposal for a stadium with ...

As the world’s wealthiest art collectors filed into a vast tent in Regents Park this week for the annual VIP preview of the Frieze London art fair, many were likely asking each other the same question ...

The World No. 14, Russian star Daniil Medvedev, and his wife, Daria, recently celebrated the third birthday of their elder daughter, Alisa, along with their second daughter, Victoria, who was born in ...

Chaucer’s penitentiary story “The Parson’s Tale” can teach us how to find communal self-knowledge and true repentance. Caught between a tavern and a cathedral, between the slums and stews of Southwark ...

An exhibition in Pittsburgh highlights the work of black photographers, both well-known and unidentified, who captured the life of their community and beyond. William Meyers ...