When it was opened to the public in 1908, the Singer Building at 149 Broadway held the record, however briefly, as the tallest skyscraper in the world. Sixty years later, it had the honor of setting a more ... Read more
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Islamic militants blew up a bus carrying female university students in Baluchistan Province in southwestern Pakistan on Saturday and then attacked a hospital complex where the ... Read more
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two bomb blasts rocked Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan Province in southwest Pakistan, on Saturday, tearing through a bus and then a hospital where the victims of the first attack ... Read more
A man was arrested on Monday after more than 100 shots were fired into rock formations at the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. There were no reports of injuries. The police said that the man, ... Read more
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Fighting between Syrian insurgents and government forces in the northern city of Aleppo left one of the Middle East’s most storied mosques severely damaged on Wednesday, its ... Read more
ATLANTA — Football, God and rebuilding are among the most enduring themes here in the largest city in the Deep South. The three have come together in the latest and most expensive civic ... Read more
POMPEII, Italy — Destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii survived excavation starting in the 18th century and has stoically borne the wear and tear of millions of modern-day ... Read more
BUFFALO — Among the dozen components of the Boy Scout Law, the eighth dictates that a scout be cheerful and look “for the bright side of life.” Among the scouts here belonging to Troop 2, that ... Read more
BUENOS AIRES — As Concepción Martínez, her husband and two daughters pulled into the last subway station here, cheers and clapping erupted from the throngs of people, some wearing ... Read more
CAIRO — Carmen Weinstein, the leader of Cairo’s small Jewish community and the driving force behind the restoration of Maimonides’s yeshiva and other monuments of Egyptian Jewish history, died ... Read more