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Today is the 47th anniversary of the day a courageous Soviet submarine officer, Vasili Arkhipov, probably saved the world from nuclear armageddon. On October 27, 1962, during the Cuban Missile […]
Drug-war dispatches out of Mexico, Pakistan’s seeming inability to control its tribal areas, and Jon Lee Anderson’s recent reporting on the largely lawless swaths of Rio de Janeiro lodged a […]
The former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has failed to appear in court in The Hague charged with genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The mantis shrimp’s capability to see a wider color spectrum than a human’s could inspire a new generation of DVD player, scientists have found.
A leader of Bosnia’s dwindling Jewish community has published a book celebrating the many Serbs, Croats and Muslims who helped Bosnian Jews during the holocaust.
A new anti-obesity drug has proved successful in trials with fewer side effects than traditional treatments. But could cost limit its use?