Society

He loved canoeing, and could be seen portaging through suburban streets to get to the river. ‘He always wanted to see what was around the bend.’

Niagara Falls. Paris, sure. But Froot Loops in the Cup and dogs drinking beer?

He survived a Nazi camp and started over in Canada, learning to swim later in life despite his fear of the water

Americans are choosing to buy tech gadgets and big-screen TVs over appliances, furniture and cars

The head count is almost complete in the first tally of the world’s marine species

New material may soon become a valuable tool in the fight against pollution

Swing coach Sean Foley has made believers out of golf’s young stars. That gets people talking.

The sisters of Poor Clares have an unlikely ally in their mission of prayer: a customized news reading device

No longer just a disease of the elderly?

She had a passion for history, especially her own family’s, and recently decided to return to the simpler life she loved as a child