Flydubai flight from UAE lands safely in Saudi Arabia with no non-crewmembers seriously hurt after Israeli passengers rush cockpit, subdue stabber; Israeli warplanes were scrambled

Helene Kröller-Müller assembled the world’s second-largest collection of van Gogh paintings. Now, for the first time in decades, they are on show together in a Dutch forest.

It was a thrilling baseball summer in Chicago, where the White Sox charmed and the Cubs captivated. What will the fall bring?

A half-century ago, scientists and lawyers agreed to strict self-regulation in DNA research to avoid catastrophe. Can A.I. follow the same model?

The face of London in the 1960s is living her best life at the age of 77.

The screens of foldable phones are a triumph of materials science and microengineering.

We’d like you to look at this tree for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

Traces of New York’s layered histories can be found scattered throughout its contemporary urban landscape.

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X-rays revealed that the tusks have an internal opposing twist, which may help explain how they grow so straight — the only tusks like them in nature.

In Japan, the ancient tradition of hikiya involves moving buildings with ropes and rollers. About 4,000 people teamed up to try it on Hirosaki Castle.

A reworking of the spacecraft’s power systems could extend the nearly 50-year-old Voyagers’ exploration of interstellar space into the early 2030s.

An uninhabited Irish island fills up one day each summer for a treasured amateur horse race in which young jockeys ride across the shifting sands.

The elevation of Pope Leo XIV, a Chicago native and lifelong supporter of the Sox, was a godsend for a team failing on the field and with fans.

The city shines in the summertime — and this year’s light is especially bright, thanks in part to a new presidential center.

A paddle down the Hatzbani reveals a landscape that feels untouched by war and a tourism industry still struggling to recover

We’d like you to look at one piece of art for 10 minutes, uninterrupted.

The Douglas DC-3 was mass-produced during World War II. Today, one of the few still remaining transports passengers in Colombia’s jungle.

Biblical scholars employ many methods to interpret the text, but one perspective is often overlooked: reading the Bible as the work of writers. Attending to the authors' literary and aesthetic choices...

Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?

It can be unsettling what Gemini and ChatGPT have figured out about you and how easily your privacy can be punctured. Here’s how to find out.

Haaretz speaks to five Jewish publications around the world, from Russia and Turkey to Poland, the Netherlands and Switzerland. They print in a variety of languages, including Yiddish and even Ladino,...

The winner of countless awards, including a Pulitzer Prize, he was described in 1990 as “the most influential political cartoonist now working.”

Try this short quiz on five of the globe’s renowned repositories of human learning.

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

From sky to sea, and then back to the lab, here are the top images from Nature’s 2026 photo competition.

The short answer to the question in the title of this post is: Yes. This is not a research topic I’ve been working on, just a conclusion I was led to by serendipity.  I’m always following more than…

Be seduced by the land of sirens before the high-season crowds descend.

Yale’s Bicentennial Schlock collection offers a window into the star-spangled commercialism that swept the country 50 years ago.

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Accepting the award in the eponymous museum he helped design ahead of Wednesday's ceremony in Jerusalem, the 97-year-old creator charms admirers -- and a ToI journalist

A jazz combo played in real time by every active NYC subway train.

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

The mini-dessert "chicken" bucket is a finger-lickin' good, according to Yankees' fans who couldn't get enough of the treat this weekend.

From the blog of Michael Carasik at The Times of Israel

People flocked to Bryant Park in Midtown Manhattan, where the quirky American woodcocks had made a pit stop on their migration north. The birds are known for their bopping and shimmying.