[ad_1] They arrived before midnight, carrying machetes and hoes, hammers and scythes, with plans to seize the land. When 200 activists and farm workers arrived, the farm was empty, overgrown with weeds, and the farm headquarters was empty, except for…

[ad_1] The evacuation of Canadians from Sudan raises some difficult questions about the federal government’s obligations to citizens in danger abroad — and its ability to help them. On Friday, Ottawa evacuated 250 Canadians from Sudan, which is currently embroiled…

[ad_1] A Texan went next door with a gun and shot five neighbors, including an eight-year-old boy and a teenage girl, after the family asked them not to shoot in their yard because they were trying to sleep, authorities said.…

[ad_1] A new study of genetic data from a market in Wuhan, China, says the data does not support the case that the pandemic started with illegally traded animals, touching off a new debate over samples that other scientists see…

[ad_1] Just like a basketball scout who discovers a bright, tall youngster, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope reported recently that they have spotted a small and fascinating group of baby galaxies in the early morning hours. These galaxies,…

[ad_1] At five minutes past noon on Friday, Ticketmaster sent Joe Holmes and many others in Britain an email: “Congratulations, you have succeeded in the ballot” for two tickets to the coronation concert of King Charles. Mr Holmes, a final-year…

[ad_1] As part of The Times’ coverage of last year’s global climate summit, I wrote an article about a project in Nova Scotia designed to generate renewable electricity from the extraordinary waves of the Bay of Fundy. Now, regulatory roadblocks…

[ad_1] If you ask kids who grew up reading Judy Blume, they’ll tell you what they learned from each of Blume’s books; the taboo rites of the passage of each book are introduced; probably even where they were, physically and…

[ad_1] The sound of airstrikes, anti-aircraft fire and artillery could be heard in Khartoum early Saturday and dark smoke rose over parts of the city, as fighting in Sudan entered its third week. Fighting between the army and rival paramilitary…

[ad_1] In Welsh, the almost untranslatable word “hiraeth” (pronounced here-ayeth) describes a mixture of nostalgia and longing for a time that can never be recreated. For Wrexham, a working-class town in north Wales, it was a feeling of post-industrial decline…