Gonzalo Higuain scored early with an acrobatic volley, his fifth goal in three league games, to set Napoli on the way to a convincing 2-0 win over sluggish AS...
Men over 50 prayed at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City Friday, a day after Israel closed all access to the sacred compound for the first time in decades...
The Alentejo wine region is Portugal’s largest, producing about two fifths of the country’s wine. A tasting in Lisbon in late October revealed how good the...
There are few artists with a more famous face than Rembrandt. The Dutch master painted his own visage repeatedly throughout his career.
With its acclaimed shiraz and other experimental varietals, the Casale del Giglio estate near Rome is at the cutting edge of Italian winemaking.
What happens when an American plan for limited war against ISIS meets the savage reality of combat, as happened this week when the extremists pounded Kurdish...
There is one thing that the people at Willamette Valley Vineyards want you to know about their annual grape stomp.
For more than 5,000 years, numerous civilizations have left their mark on upper Mesopotamia – from Assyrians and Akkadians to Babylonians and Romans.
Amid the war in Syria, one hillside vineyard still produces wines that are served in the Michelin-starred restaurants of London and Paris.
In restaurants across Lebanon, diners may have noticed something missing inside their fried kibbeh and atop their jellab.
Some 2,200 years ago, Carthaginian military commander Hannibal – who some maintain is of Phoenician descent – set out to defeat the Romans by attacking from...
The Israeli missile tore through the vaulted ceiling and pulverized age-old sandstone. One direct hit destroyed the Omari Mosque in Jabaliya and dealt another...
An Israeli military tactic that allows overwhelming fire to stop the capture of soldiers - even at the risk of killing them - is facing criticism after its...
An Israeli military tactic that allows overwhelming fire to stop the capture of soldiers – even at the risk of killing them – is facing criticism after its...
Standing in the near-empty entrance hall of the Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Pia Simig explains her approach to curating the work of Scotland’s most famous artist,...
At 86 years old, his eyesight is failing and much of his recent work reads like a man saying goodbye. Yet W.S. Merwin continues to write poems. He can’t help...
That the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers constitutes the Fertile Crescent where humans first put down roots and transitioned from hunter-gatherer...
Scribbling emotions on walls has been a tradition in Rome going back thousands of years and even the word “graffiti” was first used for markings found in the...
Scribbling emotions on walls has been a tradition in Rome going back thousands of years and even the word "graffiti" was first used for markings found in the...
Rome unveiled the most drastic facelift for the Trevi Fountain in its 252-year history Monday, the latest in a series of privately funded restorations to...