In “A Training School for Elephants,” Sophy Roberts revisits an especially bizarre episode from the exploitation of Africa.

What roils beneath the Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In ...

He was writing a tragedy. Thucydides fought in the Peloponnesian War on the Athenian side. His world was steeped in the sensibilities of Greek tragedy, and his historical narrative carries that ...

“Warfare,” the new film co-directed by Alex Garland (“Civil War,” “Ex Machina”) and former US Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, knows it’s going to give audiences a rough ride, so it starts off ...

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AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its ...

God put me here to care for them,” he told The Associated Press in Greek at Panagia Hozoviotissa monastery, where he said not even a rock fell during the tremors. During that brief absence ...