Seven men were recently arrested for the theft of an 18-karat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. The toilet, valued at $5.95 million, was an artwork that was intended to be a satire...

On the eve of Thanksgiving each year, I’m sadly reminded of the awful tragedy that occurred 60 years ago, on Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas by an apparently deranged young man, who was also shot shortly afterward. When you...

Whew, that was a close call! I’m talking, of course, about Asteroid Melpomene, which is 37 kilometers in diameter (3,320 feet, equal to about three-fifths of a mile) and passed within 533 miles of Earth on Oct. 30. Had it struck the Earth at 30,000 mph, it would have...