Looking back 50 years later, The Muppet Show feels like something that shouldn’t have worked—and somehow worked perfectly. A ...

At dawn, the first rays of sunlight bathed Halim Station in Jakarta. A red-and-white high-speed train slowly pulled out of the platform, its wheels gliding through the lingering mist over Java Island.

Today in History for Dec. 28: In 1065, Westminster Abbey was founded by Edward the Confessor. In 1694, Queen Mary II of England died after more than five years of joint rule with her husband, King ...