The Soviets pre-empt a German offensive with one of their own in the south of the Eastern Front, but that's not the only fighting. The skies over Malta and the waters of the Gulf of St. Lawrence are ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. In 1978, Time magazine donated approximately eight hundred works of original cover art to the National Portrait ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M.K. Stalin has been in the public eye for more than 50 years, yet very little is known about him outside his home state, apart from the fact that he is ...

On the year’s shortest day, 60 years ago, in Gori, near Tiflis, a son was born to a poor, hard-working Georgian cobbler named Vissarion Djugashvili. The boy’s pious mother christened him Joseph, after ...

Photogenic Faye Emerson Roosevelt and her husband (the late President’s scatter-quote son) last week paid Joseph Stalin a birthday (his 67th) visit in the Kremlin. Faye and Elliott reported that their ...

The 49th edition of the Chennai Book Fair 2026 will be inaugurated by Chief Minister M.K. Stalin on January 8, 2026, said R.S. Shanmugam, president, Booksellers’ and Publishers’ Association of South ...

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M K Stalin will inaugurate the 49th Chennai Book Fair at Nandhanam YMCA grounds on January 8, 2026. One of the biggest annual literary events in the state, the fair will remain ...

'The Ghosts of Rome’ by Joseph O’Connor has been announced as the overall ‘An Post Irish Book of the Year 2025’. The book was among six titles competing for the accolade, all of which were category ...

Brian T. Allen, art critic E Is for Edward, a centennial celebration of the work of Edward Gorey, reminds us that savants still wander the Earth. “I’ve been murdering children in my books for years,” ...

In the New Testament, the Gospels tell the story of Jesus’ birth—the first Christmas. Set during the rise of the Roman Empire, the stories create a radiant image of a young couple giving birth to the ...

On the joys of having stories in my ears — and yes, listening counts. Credit...By Georgie Mcausland Supported by By Elisabeth Egan It started with “Red Comet,” an 1,118-page biography of Sylvia Plath, ...