STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Shaking hands with yourself is an amusing out-of-body experience. The illusion of having your stomach slashed with a kitchen knife, not so much. Both sensations, however, felt real to most participants in a Swedish science project exploring how people can be tricked into the false perception of owning another body. ...more

December 3, 2008

People who plan their vacations well in advance will have new offerings for Disney cruises in 2010, with special itineraries through northern Europe and the Mediterranean. ...more

October 8, 2008

Vacationers looking ahead to plan Disney cruises will have new offerings in 2010 with special itineraries through northern Europe and the Mediterranean. ...more

October 7, 2008

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Previously unseen footage emerged today showing Republican presidential candidate John McCain as a proud, stoic prisoner of war in Hanoi on the day his Vietnamese captors released him to the U.S. military. ...more

September 11, 2008

They say that every president gets the psychoanalyst he deserves. And every Hamlet gets his Rosencrantz. ...more

June 3, 2008

The Lightning will begin next season with a hop across the pond and a jump into the European hockey scene. ...more

January 27, 2008

Coach John Tortorella informed the assembled media Thursday morning that injured D Dan Boyle would not be playing in his first game since Nov. 3. By the mid-part of the afternoon, that all changed following a checkup with the doctor who performed a second operation on Boyle's left wrist. ...more

January 25, 2008

One sure way to feel like an antiqueis to have buildings that you've watched go up in your own lifetime be labeled "culturally-protected landmarks." That happened to me, recently, on a return visit to Stockholm, Sweden, where I spent 35 years of my expatriate career. ...more

December 15, 2007

Doris Lessing, author of dozens of works from short stories to science fiction, including the classic 'The Golden Notebook,' won the Nobel Prize for literature Thursday. The judges praised her 'skepticism, fire and visionary power.' ...more

October 12, 2007

Gerhard Ertl of Germany won the 2007 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for studies of chemical reactions on solid surfaces, which are key to understanding questions like how pollution eats away at the ozone layer. ...more

October 11, 2007