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A dispossessed Indian princess and her large-footed servant unravel a mystery among a crowd of classic British eccentrics in Julia Stuart's charming new novel, The Pigeon Pie Mystery. Who poisoned the unpleasant Major-General Bagshot? The answer may surprise you.

Michael Phelps won a seventh gold medal at the Beijing Games by the slimmest of margins. He beat Milorad Cavic of Serbia by 0.01 seconds. It was the first race of these games in which Phelps didn't set a world record. The win ties him with Mark Spitz for the most golds won at a single Olympics.

The Antarctic B-15 iceberg broke into pieces in October 2005, but scientists didn't know what caused the ice shift. But two researchers recently discovered the ice shift originated 13,000 km away – in Alaska.

Terrence Malick's sweeping spiritual epic plays out more like a gorgeous symphony than a movie. Jumping from a family drama in 1950s Texas to the beginning of time, Malick crafts a visually beautiful — and at times incoherent — narrative that throbs with poetry in every frame. (Recommended)

History and recent struggles suggest that the U.S. will continue to find frustration in Afghanistan.

Forty years ago this week, the U.S. was hit by an oil shock that reverberates until this day.

French philosopher Denis Diderot was the driving force behind one of the first compendiums of human knowledge, but his contributions have been largely lost to history. Now, the anniversary of his birth has prompted calls to reinter his remains in Paris' Pantheon, alongside the likes of Voltaire and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

The controversies that divide us — the political, the social and of late, even the Girl Scouts — just keep on coming. Sometimes it's enough to make you wonder how we'll ever resolve our differences. But to do that, conflict mediators say, we must first identify the conflict.

Queen Elizabeth II's six-day visit to the U.S., her first official trip to the country since 1991, has spawned a cottage industry of royal etiquette advice.

This election season, the TV airwaves are saturated with nasty, snarling attack ads. Those who fund some of the ads can now remain anonymous, but we'd like your help giving them a special name.