It’s the day you’ve been waiting for: Oscars night! The brightest stars in Hollywood have assembled for the biggest event in the entertainment industry, a whirlwind of pretty dresses, dashing suits, and enough...

To Alice Herz-Sommer, "music [was] God." It was the religion by which she lived out her days. When times were dark, she preached the beauty of life without saying a word, sitting at her piano at the end of the world....

On February 11, 2011, the world watched in anticipation the aerial views of tiny bobbing heads and flags snapping in the wind; Egypt was poised to add a very important chapter to its beleaguered political history. In a...

With over two million people -- young, old, women, men, poor (and some rich) -- of all skin colors serving out sentences behind the bars of United States correctional institutions, it isn’t a wonder that their lives...

In 1965, a military coup ousted Indonesian’s first president, Sukarno -- a revolutionary championed by the people for leading to the removal of the 149-year yoke of Dutch colonialism. As the military took control,...