LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, Alice Ritchie- For centuries, women and sometimes men have squeezed their feet into tiny shoes or balanced on towering heels to feel sexy, empowered and to show their wealth...

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- The diary of a detective hunting Jack the Ripper and a poison-filled syringe intended for use by the notorious Kray twins are among items at a new crime exhibition in London....

JERUSALEM, UNDEFINED- Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Tuesday that he has decided to cut state funding for a play by an Arab theatre about a militant who killed a soldier....

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM- A joint concert by pop diva Lady Gaga and veteran crooner Tony Bennett was cancelled at the last minute Tuesday because the 88-year-old was "taken ill", London's Royal Albert...

LOS ANGELES, UNITED STATES- Amelia Earhart took off from Burbank, California in 1937 on her ill-fated round-the-globe flight. A photographer documented the journey's start, but the world was unaware...

BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, Phillipp Saure- It is the evening of June 18, 1815 and an exultant Napoleon Bonaparte surveys the field after winning the Battle of Waterloo, planning his next conquest. Within...

PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC- Czech writer and journalist Ludvik Vaculik, a fierce critic of the totalitarian communist regime that ruled in former Czechoslovakia from 1948-1989, died on Saturday aged 88,...

NEW YORK, UNITED STATES, Shaun Tandon- Opera has not been generous in its portrayal of people of color, with few identifiably non-white leading roles in the classical repertoire. So when prominent...

PARIS, FRANCE- "Pirates of the Caribbean" star Johnny Depp is about to chart a new course into fragrant waters by agreeing to be the face promoting Dior's line of men's scents. The French luxury...