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It was the first day of April, overcast and chilly, and Christopher Peacock, the English kitchen designer, was giving a tour of the town that's been so good to him....

Charles Parkhurst, a museum director in Baltimore and Washington and one of the "monuments men," an Allied Forces team that chased down leads, pried open crates and snooped around museums,...

Ed Arno, whose sketchy, casually rendered cartoons on topics domestic and cosmic appeared regularly in The New Yorker for more than 30 years, died May 27. He was 92. The...

The Pin Oak levee, the last remaining barrier between about 100 homes here and the lakelike Mississippi River surrounding them, finally gave way before dawn Friday. But the fight to...

In the past two months, Taliban militants have suddenly tightened the noose on this city of 3 million people, one of Pakistan's biggest, establishing bases in surrounding towns and, in...

Ira Tucker, a little man with a giant vocal range and acrobatic stage antics who as lead singer of the Dixie Hummingbirds helped propel gospel music toward a harder-edged, more...

In an effort to rejuvenate the "Masterpiece" (8 p.m., Sunday, WTTW-Ch. 11) franchise, PBS has brought in a new host for its "Mystery!" series, the impish actor Alan Cumming, who...

North Korea's declaration of its nuclear activities is a triumph of the sort of diplomacy -- complicated, plodding, often frustrating -- that President George W. Bush and his aides once...

Eager to boost tourism, Hidalgo State came up with a novel idea: an advertising campaign featuring a well-known actress wearing Hidalgo's most eye-popping sites on her body. "Hidalgo, under my...

Teenage girls who vomit one to three times a month to control weight increase their risk of having irregular menstrual periods by 60 percent, a recent study reports; those who...