This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here. When Food & Wine magazine declared last year that “Historic Filipinotown is L.A.’s Next Great Dining Neighborhood,” an unseen player in this rise was neither a chef nor a restaurateur. …...Read More

A storm is born: When a low-pressure system that was dithering over the tropical Atlantic last week posed a threat to Puerto Rico and the island of Hispaniola, the center designated it Potential Tropical Cyclone Nine and started issuing forecasts and warnings. The system formed into Isaias, but it was …...Read More

The masks were called muzzles, germ shields and dirt traps. They gave people a “pig-like snout.” Some people snipped holes in their masks to smoke cigars. Others fastened them to dogs in mockery. Bandits used them to rob banks. More than a century ago, as the 1918 influenza pandemic raged …...Read More

Two fly-tippers who dumped rubbish in a field were forced to re-load their van when a farmer caught them in the act. James Johnston, from Glasgow, spotted the two men dumping planks of wood and other debris in his field and insisted that they remove it straight away. The men …...Read More

Drugs could be designed to combat age-related illness and let humans live longer after researchers successfully 'tweaked' an anti-ageing enzyme in roundworms. Researchers from KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) were able to dial up and down creatures' lifespans by altering protein activity levels. The enzyme 'tweaked' by …...Read More

Advertisement From the outside, it has elements of the celebrity haunt Soho Farmhouse, while on the inside there is a Playstation console-shaped kitchen island and a Mr Benn-inspired walk-in wardrobe. And as you'd expect from that, the Long Barn is a house with a story to tell. The property is …...Read More

The fatal shooting that led to Ms. Lipp’s arrest began when a 25-year-old man was lured to her apartment in July 2018 on the promise he would get a kiss in exchange for $100, investigators say. The victim, Dustin Barham, was robbed and shot, bleeding to death, prosecutors say. Ms. …...Read More

A diver is lucky to be alive after being crushed by two humpback whales. The woman, 29, was with a group touring on Western Australia’s Ningaloo Reef at the weekend when she was sandwiched between the massive creatures. The freak accident left her with fractured ribs and internal bleeding but …...Read More

Pointing out a "glaring instance" of politics destroying an extremely significant piece of intelligence shared between two nations, a security expert on Thursday said that Israel had shared with India certain transcripts about the possible threat to the life of late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi that went missing after the …...Read More

PORTLAND, Ore. — Late on Saturday night, with protests in Portland continuing into their third month, one crowd of demonstrators gathered yet again in front of the city’s fortified federal courthouse while another group traveled miles east to a precinct used by local law enforcement. At the federal courthouse, the …...Read More