DANIEL Fish’s bold production of Sophocles’ Greek tragedy Elektra, starring Hollywood heavyweight ... murder her beloved father Agamemnon. Shaven-headed, dressed in faded jeans and a Bikini Kill ...

Author Jeanne Carstensen details a deadly shipwreck she witnessed through accounts from survivors and rescuers alike.

Friedrich Hölderlin was an important German Romantic lyric poet whose great work managed to bridge the Classical and Romantic ...

Cleopatra, and Marc Antony spent time in their decadent love affair on the Greek island of Samos in the summer of 32 B.C.

NPR's Scott Simon talks with journalist Jeanne Carstensen about her new book, "Greek Tragedy," about the wreck of a ship filled with refugees off the Greek coast in 2015.

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As the campus mourned Rahul’s passing, yet another tragedy struck the same night. Katravath Akhil (20), another first-year B.Tech student also from Telangana, suffered a fatal cardiac arrest.

A mother is behind bars after calling the police on herself to report she had stabbed her young son to death inside a motel room after the pair visited Disneyland. Saritha Ramaraju, 48, has been ...

“I will call it like it is. This was a horrific tragedy caused by someone who shouldn’t have been on the road,” Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch told reporters at crash scene. “A mother ...

A British couple have been found dead at home in New Zealand. Worried relatives alerted police after they were concerned for the couple's welfare. Officers searched the address in Roseneath, the ...