CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. — Hundreds of small business owners are scrambling to clear out their inventory after The Painted Tree announced it is closing stores nationwide and filing for bankruptcy. The ...

Kate Millar has a loyal following for her sewing classes. “People come in weekly, daily — I’ve got a lady that now calls when she’s got extra time and runs in,” the Plainfield resident said. While her ...

First it was the rising cost of plastic pipes, steel, timber and cement, but now the Middle East crisis is about to punish home builders and renovators with price increases of up to 10 per cent for ...

FREDERICK, Md. — On a cold day in downtown Frederick, Maryland, the holiday lights glow a little brighter, the trees shimmer and passersby slow their steps. And then there’s the sound. It’s deep, ...

Kate Bush has never been a stranger to dismantling imaginary boundaries in music. Throughout her career, she always looked for new ways to defy convention. And her enormously dedicated fanbase is ...

With homes vandalized, synagogues on fire and residents on edge, Australia is grappling with a surge in antisemitic attacks that has prompted dozens of arrests across the country in what its leaders ...

SYDNEY, Dec 11 (Reuters) - A car was set alight and two properties spray painted with anti-Israel messages in Sydney just days after an arson attack at a synagogue in Melbourne which is being ...

On Thursday night, the Australian government passed new laws that expand the country’s offshore detention regime, further evade international obligations, and allow officials to pursue prison terms ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women ...

They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender ...