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A figure of a roaring lion, about the size of a loaf of bread, is the latest step in the fight to preserve culture from conflict. The sculpture is a replica of a colossal 3,000-year-old statue from the Temple of Ishtar in Nimrud, in what’s now Iraq. The stone statue was one of many artifacts […]

Italian news agency ANSA says eruptions from a volcano on the Sicilian island of Stromboli sent about 30 tourists jumping into the sea for safety. Civil protection authorities said a hiker was killed during the eruptions on Wednesday. Molten material from the volcano ignited a series of fires. Witness Gianluca Giuffre described to ANSA “a

The 52 Places Traveler As the shadow of the moon swept across the Atacama Desert, the 52 Places Traveler stood celestially transfixed. July 3, 2019 Our columnist, Sebastian Modak, is visiting each destination on our 52 Places to Go in 2019 list. Before watching the solar eclipse in Chile on Tuesday, he visited Salvador, Brazil,

Authorities in Tunisia say the man who was the alleged “brain” behind twin suicide bombings that shook the capital last week was killed while being pursued by police. Sofiane Selliti, ,a spokesman for anti-terrorism prosecutors, said Wednesday that police were chasing suspect Aymen Smiri when explosives he was carrying detonated and killed him on Tuesday

A Pool and a View on the Coast of St. Barts $3.2 MILLION (2.8 MILLION EUROS) This contemporary, three-bedroom villa sits on a verdant hillside above Flamand Beach, near the northwestern tip of the French territory of St. Barts, in the Caribbean Sea. The 1,722-square-foot house, accented with Caribbean details including a white wood balcony,

One company, Airmule, pays $150 to travelers with a visa for China who are willing to “sell” a luggage slot on their flight there from the United States, or on a flight to India, Thailand or Korea that stops in China. (Flights back to the United States pay $100.) There are downsides, however: Couriers need

PARIS — In the summer of 1998, this newspaper ran an article about a restaurant here. “The first rule of fashion is that if something is fashionable, it is doomed to become unfashionable, especially if it is fashionable with the fashion crowd,” the article read. But, it said, there was one exception: “Davé.” I wrote

When I visited Gundlach Bundschu, construction on their family’s house was well underway. The vines had just begun to bud. Winery devotees sipped chardonnay near the pond that the Bundschus expanded after the Hanly fire. Winery staff and firefighters used that water to save the winery, the vineyards and the family’s beloved pear trees. “The

Sam Rosenbaum has Stephen Colbert to thank for his career switch from accountant to cannabis tour operator. The newly minted M.B.A. was watching an episode of “The Colbert Report” in 2014 when the comedian spoke of a “cannabis green rush” coming to Colorado, which had recently become the first state to legalize recreational marijuana. “The

Moe Moskowitz, the co-founder of Moe’s Books in Berkeley, was known for a lot of things: his omnipresent cigars; his appalling dancing (sometimes to Cab Calloway on the store’s turntable); his political activism; and especially the way he held court at the cash register, riffing like Jackie Mason at a Friars Club podium. The more