Celebrity Life

How did an isolated Himalayan region manage to succeed where so many other cities and countries have struggled?

In 1899, a writer for French newspaper Le Figaro surveyed the damage Parisians had done to the Bièvre, a river that for hundreds of years had snaked up through southern Paris, joining the Seine near the Jardin des Plantes. “It flows slowly, oily and black, streaked with acids, dotted with soapy and putrid pustules,” the…

Finland believes education is key—getting every citizen to understand the need for a circular economy, and how they can be part of it

Finland believes education is key—getting every citizen to understand the need for a circular economy, and how they can be part of it

Television's most influential creator is poised to reshape the streaming landscape, just like she did with prime time TV

The images, and the people who made them, show us the power of great photography

In a year when the pandemic continued to make the world feel unsteady and social media a touch ephemeral, this selection of books offers a way to be transported by visual art in the palm of your hand. Curated by the TIME photo department, this list is semi-personal, compiled after asking each editor to think…

This story was produced in partnership with the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS), Australia’s multi-cultural and multilingual broadcaster. SBS correspondent Aneeta Bhole reported from the Northern Territory. The contents of Norman Frank’s fridge could mean the difference between life and death. His doctor told him to drink cold water for his kidney trouble, and to keep…

In a remote corner of eastern Africa, behind tiers of razor wire and concrete blast walls, it’s possible to get a glimpse of America’s unending war on terrorism. Camp Lemonnier, a 550-acre military base, houses U.S. special-operations teams tasked with fighting the world’s most powerful al-Qaeda affiliates. Unfolding over miles of sun-scorched desert and volcanic…

In the early years of World War II, when Jane Goodall was around 6 years old, she was often woken from her sleep by the blare of air-raid sirens. The sound warned that Nazi planes were flying over Bournemouth, the English seaside town where Goodall’s family had moved at the outbreak of the war. Her…

Those of us who stayed stuck around, through 9/11 or the COVID-19 pandemic, did so expressly to preserve the New York we knew

Javier Jaguar Gutierrez was one of the last US soldiers killed in Afghanistan. America’s withdrawal opens old wounds for his grieving family