America's bestselling author of "Three Cups of Tea," an inspiring account of building schools in Afghanistan, fought for his reputation Monday after a report said he'd made up much of the story.
Greg Mortenson's book has sold more than four (...)
As chefs at the upscale New York sushi restaurant Megu slide huge knives through their latest bluefin tuna, the possible extinction of the species is far from their minds.
Only the fatty underbelly of the fish has their attention - the white, (...)
New York is, like, totally awesome - especially if you re a Chihuahua abandoned in California.
Fifteen of these goggle-eyed living toys, best known for inhabiting the handbags of Paris Hilton and other Hollywood B-listers, became New Yorkers (...)
Artists usually crave light. Robert, 25, chose the dead of night. "It's safer that way, he said.
Working on a rough Brooklyn street, he had only 10 minutes to paint before he fled, mistaking an approaching car for the police.
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Les Paul, a virtuoso guitarist and inventor who shaped the sound of rock n roll, died Thursday in New York state, Gibson Guitar company said. He was 94.
Paul passed away today from complications of severe pneumonia at White Plains Hospital in (...)
Woodstock s hippies turned on, tuned in, dropped out, tried changing the world - then got haircuts and jobs.
To those who were there on August 15-18, 1969, the rock festival in Bethel, upstate New York, seemed at first to promise a beautiful new (...)
NEW YORK: A US government lawyer argued against revoking a high-profile travel ban on leading Oxford University Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan in a court appeal on Tuesday.
The visa ban - allegedly based on Ramadan s donations to a group linked to (...)
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MOSCOW: Car salesman Alexei Dorofeyev is proud to belong to a club he says is getting less exclusive all the time - Russia s middle class.
At 22, Dorofeyev, director of a Moscow auto dealership, is the new kind of Russian (...)