When people think of giant, lovable family dogs, one image almost always comes to mind: a drooling, barrel-bellied Saint Bernard barreling through a suburban house. And that is thanks to […] ...

Tom Stoppard’s contributions to cinema – official and unofficial – are far richer than you’d know from a cursory look at what awards bodies saw fit to bestow. He was almost equally prolific in being ...

The discovery of a love letter revealed the depths of Beethoven’s yearning for his "immortal beloved." Scholars have been piecing together clues to her identity ever since. Ludwig van Beethoven wasn’t ...

The plot resurrects the bad idea of monkeying around with haunted graveyards and being dismayed by the grisly outcome. In the movie’s favor, it featured a stellar cast of feline thespians — all of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1994, an orthopaedic surgeon using a payphone in upstate New York noticed a thunderstorm in the distance. He ...

Almost two centuries after Beethoven's death, scientists say they've finally cracked the case of what the famously cranky composer really looked like. Credit: Cicero Moraes/Pen News Turns out ...

The helmet worn by Ayrton Senna during one of his most iconic Formula 1 acts at the 1992 Belgian Grand Prix has been sold for a record £720,000 ($966,449), auctioneers have said. Senna, the legendary ...

In our recent article remembering French mountaineer Chantal Mauduit, we briefly touched on her 1992 rescue on K2. We noted how Scott Fischer and Ed Viesturs gave up their summit bid to bring her down ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook When the star singer Asmik Grigorian dropped out of the orchestra’s performance at Carnegie Hall, Beethoven’s Fifth and his “Leonore ...