( JTA) — The novelist John Irving is famous for telling stories set in his native New England and in Austria, the site of a ...

This National Geographic book is much more than a coffee table tome, although you could easily spend hours just poring over the photographs: black-and-white reproductions from Shackleton’s voyage, and ...

Months before his death, 47-year-old real estate developer John Jacob Astor IV scandalized New York high society by marrying ...

The luxury house announces its record-breaking acquisition of a historic 1912 pocket watch, bringing it home 112 years after it was sold to a Titanic survivor. Offered $1.97 million at a UK auction, ...

Erin Keller is a reporter based in Ohio. Her focus is live and trending news, as well as pop culture. She has covered celebrity deaths, lawsuits, and the Hunter Biden gun trial. Erin joined ...

Or was it 1974? By Laurie Gwen Shapiro One morning in the mid-1970s, a solemn announcement came over the intercom at Friends Seminary: “Noted person John Lennon is now in the meetinghouse.

La Madeleine, a beloved, French-founded neighborhood café and bakery, has appointed seasoned restaurant and franchise industry executive John Dillon as its new president, further strengthening its ...

It is a slightly longer walk from Eurostar than the hotels I mentioned above, but not by much. The building was constructed in 1907 by John Jacob Astor IV, who owned the Waldorf-Astoria in New York at ...

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. There is currently no prospect of the suspect in Madeleine McCann’s disappearance facing charges, the German prosecutor investigating him has ...

Prosecutors have confirmed a new twist regarding the man suspected of being involved in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. Perhaps the most widely covered modern missing person's case of ...

Prosecutors have admitted Madeleine McCann suspect Christian Brueckner will not face any charges for the foreseeable future. Detectives are convinced the paedophile and convicted rapist snatched ...