Part 1. Green gas -- Henry Ford and the search for ethanol -- Giant Chinese silver grass -- The rise, fall, rise and fall of alcohol fuel -- Gas lines and gasohol -- Back to the ethanol future -- Part ...

Tucked into the vast plains of northwest Spain, the city of León emerges like a mosaic of centuries—its architecture a dialogue between empires, its streets a living gallery of tradition, and faith. A ...

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Pope Leo XIV said during an audience with French altar servers in Rome on Aug. 25, the feast day of St. Louis IX, king of France, that the shortage of priests is “a great misfortune” for the Catholic ...

I was jogging last year through a Brighton neighborhood with Robert Veeder, an avid runner like I am trying to become again, and the topic turned to street signs as we passed them. Veeder mentioned ...

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948, was the result of the experience of the Second World War. With the end of that war, and the ...

The Manhyia Palace was draped in solemnity on Thursday, August 21, as the Ashanti Kingdom observed the one-week celebration of the late Asantehemaa, Nana Konadu Yiadom III. Traditional rituals filled ...

A woman takes selfies in front of a poster of "Dead To Rights" in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Aug. 24, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua] The Malaysian premiere of "Dead To Rights," a Chinese historical film about ...

FILE - In this May 27, 2020, file photo, a voter drops off their mail-in ballot prior to the primary election, in Willow Grove, Pa. The civic ritual of casting a ballot has been disrupted by a global ...

The director of Oscar winner 'The Great Beauty' imagines the final days in office of a fictional President of the Italian Republic in this Venice Film Festival opener. By David Rooney Chief Film ...

When a pope had the audacity to name himself after St. Francis — a man of peace, simplicity and creation — I began to dream then of an environmental encyclical. We need the moral courage that Francis ...