Among government critics in Cuba, there is a widespread sense that the crackdown by the island’s authoritarian rulers is far from over.

Before searching for unmarked graves at former residential schools, Indigenous people must have support systems in place to deal with the trauma that follows, says an Indigenous archaeologist leading Canada's search for burial sites. 

Simone Biles and Georginio Wijnaldum are not alike. There is no comparison. But, for one fleeting moment, it may be worth considering their stories in conjunction.

In Europe this summer, the rules keep changing. In Greece and Spain, some regions have brought back nighttime curfews. France requires proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test to get into restaurants and more. Italy plans a similar mandate. 

A murder trial in Sweden threatens to unearth information about the mass executions in Iran more than three decades ago that the Iranian president-elect would prefer remain a secret. 

Those coronavirus sequences that were suddenly deleted from a database? Now they're back.

Three middle-distance runners from the International Olympic Committee Refugee Team are coming to Canada after the Games, with the help of a refugee resettlement program for students

In the pages of art history books and the halls of museums, the artist Janet Sobel is nowhere to be found. The Ukrainian-born immigrant created the style of drip painting that influenced Jackson Pollock and made him famous.

A reluctant celebrity, Ruth Pearl was thrust into the spotlight in 2001 after the brutal murder of her son, Daniel Pearl, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, by Muslim extremists. She has died at 85.

Roberta Calasso, a Renaissance man of letters and a Florentine by birth, was a polymath as an author and publisher (Kafka, Verdic philosophy, Greek mythology) who found a wide international readership. He has died at 80.