The Halpins moved into the house, a Craftsman bungalow in Altadena, in 1988. It was yellow and had three bedrooms and one ...

A cement walkway collapsed and killed five workers at a factory in Thailand. The workers were relocating the 66x66ft concrete mezzanine floor when the steel structure supporting it buckled at the Thai ...

FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP — Just off a state highway in New Jersey, one of the largest statues of the Buddha in the United States appears unexpectedly in the middle of a backyard. It rises 30 feet high ...

In Buddhism, Maitreya is a bodhisattva prophesied to descend to Earth in the distant future, bringing the rebirth of Buddhism ...

Ellie O’Byrne revisits one of county Cork’s strangest phenomena: a statue of the Virgin Mary that, in 1985, drew enormous ...

I used to spend winter holidays in Goa, sunbathing in a bikini on the beach at Calangute, dining on freshly barbecued prawns, ...

As it turned out, the visitor was not really a visitor at all. He was a Met curator, planning a big new exhibit with ancient ...

The priest where I go, in Overland Park, calls for us to kneel down at the end of Mass and say, he says, “one ‘Hail Mary’ for ...

Barren yet beautiful, the moonscapes of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert are an alluring world of steppes, boreal forest, sand and rock ...

There may not be a better way to embrace winter in Wisconsin than to attend the Lake Superior Ice Festival, where a bunch of ...

Sacred Grove Welcome Center, Palmyra, New York, Over my thirty years living in Upstate New York, I’ve raced past the Thruway ...

Halfway between L.A. and San Francisco, El Paso de Robles (The Pass of Oaks) was pinned on the map for its hot springs, ...