General world happenings and politics.
The Kimbell Art Museum will soon be the only U.S. museum to display a Michelangelo painting after acquiring his earliest known work, a rare treasure that was tucked away and doubted as authentic for more than a century. “The Torment of Saint Anthony,” is a 15th-century oil and tempera painting on a wood panel...
The New Hampshire Senate have voted to allow same-sex couples to marry, setting the state in motion to become the fifth in the country to legalize same-sex marriage. New Hampshire’s House of Representatives has already approved the bill, but the Senate amended the language slightly before passing it on a 13-to-11 vote, meaning the...
Swine flu emerged in Mexico months earlier than previously thought, the country’s health minister has said, giving possible clues about the origins of the killer virus. Officials had previously said that the first recorded case of the H1N1 virus in Mexico was from a woman who died in the southern state of Oaxaca on...
