Two boat capsizes in one weekend on Congo's vast rivers have left 70 people dead and 200 others feared dead in unrelated incidents that were both characterized by heavily loaded boats operated with few safety measures,...

I wrote in yesterday's Globe about the annual Holocaust remembrance ceremony on Sunday at Boston's Faneuil Hall. It was a multi-generational event, with the children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors taking part through street theater, song, art and essays. The story prompted a member of the Greatest Generation, 85-year-old Irving Smolens, to write to me with his own recollections of ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. -- Flo the chimpanzee bounds about her enclosure, hurls a rubber ball then stares quizzically at the New Mexico green chili pepper that will be her morning snack.