In “Empresses of Seventh Avenue,” the fashion writer Nancy MacDonell tells the story of the New York women who created modern style.

A new book sheds light on the Jewish heroes whose story got lost in France's celebration of the Resistance to the Nazis and the Vichy regime. Its...

By Jack Butler It’s fitting that Ronald Reagan spent many years of his all-American life in Hollywood. His trajectory — from small-town boy in...

Yves Rees’ book tells the story of 10 Australian women who left the country to find their way in early 20th-century America.

One family’s extraordinary act of kindness – donating the heart of their daughter – gave a young boy his life back. In this extract from her new...

In a superb performance, Brody plays a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who comes to the US and begins a distinguished career under the...

Two men, an Algerian and a Tunisian, who were jailed for serious crimes have escaped. It is still unclear how the two were able to get out of the...

By DEBORAH McNORGAN The Paris Olympics have ended but the sports scandals rage on, making a new book by Beach resident Mary Ormsby more timely than...

The Illinois Prisoner Review Board has denied parole for a serial killer linked to at least 12 murders of young women and teens, including three in...

A British prisoner is among five inmates who have escaped from a high-security prison in Portugal. A search is continuing for Mark Cameron Roscaleer...