Truth and beauty bombs

Magawa, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, was recognized with a prestigious honor for his work detecting mines and explosives in Cambodia.

My mind had moved a few inches to the left of its usual place, and I developed what I realised later were actual...

Cancer has taken his voice, but the unlikeliest movie star in Hollywood history still has a lot he wants to say.

Some researchers have cast doubt on the record of the celebrated supercentenarian.

Vast riches and a lifelong obsession with fringe technology are threatening to tear a family apart.

Friends don’t let friends lie about having cancer.

When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and…

They perceive depth in a very different way than we do.

Judy Maxwell Home pays homage to a Barbra Streisand character and the Japanese concept of wabi-sabi.

They were highly sophisticated. The local police seemed helpless. Then a retired septuagenarian detective stepped in.

Winston Ross recalls the heartbreaking ordeal his family endured after his mother’s routine surgery led to post-operative delirium.

Anjoli Roy struggles to understand the conservative father she dearly loves.

And Christina Ricci, and that butt scene, and the sexual awakening of an entire generation.

In 1904, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Magie designed a board game to demonstrate the tragic effects of land-grabbing. She named her grim reflection of life The Landlords’ Game, but you probably know it better as Monopoly.