London's FTSE 100 retreats from record highs as energy, financials fall The UK's FTSE 100 closed lower on Wednesday, stalling after a recent run of record highs as losses in energy and financial ...

Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil near the scene of the shooting. Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times The police taped off the area around the ...

“Contours of a World” at the Guggenheim Museum includes paintings as well as photography that suggests an alternate path. By Martha Schwendener The Washington National Opera said the “Wicked” composer ...

Despite the great diversity of human languages, recurring grammatical patterns (termed ‘universals’) have been found. Using the Grambank database of more than 2,000 languages, spatiophylogenetic ...