Let other mayors fret about potholes, taxes and sewers. This is an Olympic city, and here is the jeans-clad mayor striding into his office on a recent afternoon, fresh from a landslide, and not the electoral kind. When Sochi won the 2014 Games, life ...

In a land whose uptight reputation is belied by its wicked ways, the Conservative-led British government is in midst of a crusade to enact some of the strictest curbs on pornography in the Western world. The campaign follows the rape and murder of two ...

When President Barack Obama talks about the cost of higher education, his mentions of “college students” might often evoke images of teenagers who spent their senior years of high school searching for the four-year institution that best matched their personalities, then enrolled and moved ...

Thirty years ago, a good girl didn’t walk into an establishment plastered with images of dragons and flames, hike her shirt up over one shoulder and let her body be injected with ink. Especially not if she was, like Darlene Nash, a 57-year-old grandmother. ...

Seven months after leaving the papacy, emeritus Pope Benedict XVI broke his self-imposed silence Tuesday by releasing a letter to one of Italy’s best-known atheists in which he denied covering up for sexually abusive priests and defended Christianity to nonbelievers. It was the first ...

Sonja Miskulin has forgotten her beloved cat, Pooki. She can’t remember whether she has grandchildren and has no memory of her nine-hour journey one recent Sunday to forever leave behind her home in Germany. Suffering from dementia, the wheelchair-bound former translator celebrated her 94th ...

On the top floor of Random House’s offices in London, the world’s number one thinker — according to Prospect magazine’s annual poll — walks in from the roof terrace and shakes my hand. Richard Dawkins is a trim 72-year-old with one of those faces ...

A Nigerian woman tearfully prayed and recited Quranic verses as she won a beauty pageant exclusively for Muslim women in Jakarta on Wednesday, a riposte to the Miss World contest, which has sparked hard-line anger. The 20 finalists from six countries, who were all ...