An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.

When Putin suggested to Obama that the White House and the Kremlin speak through an intermediary, he named who he thought was the obvious candidate: his friend Steven Seagal.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

Coastal erosion is leading more than a few Britons to watch their homes crumble into the sea.

It’s the “City of the Big Automobile,” raw and beautiful at once.

Gerry Adams, the leader of Sinn Fein, denies that he was ever in the IRA. The murder of Jean McConville threatened to expose him as a liar.

A friendship born of mutual interest in birding stretches across the Berlin Wall.

Michel Houellebecq on his controversial new novel, Submission, which imagines France electing its first Muslim president.

Tracing the steps of migrants from the Middle East and Africa to the Kent countryside.

The effects of legalized prostitution in Germany.

A holiday tradition in the Netherlands involving blackface has sparked a debate about race, the legacy of slavery, and the vestiges of colonialism.

Inside Greece’s far-right movement.

On Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and the rise of Islamophobia in Norway.

A profile of the most powerful woman in the world.

Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

On the intrigue surrounding Dr. Zhivago’s publication.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

Young neo-Nazis attempt to rebrand hate.

What the neighborhood of Higher Blackley in Manchester says about “one of the least understood and most discriminated-against groups in society.”

The Srebrenica massacre, almost 20 years later.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

The writings of Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik are a copy-and-paste hodgepodge of “jeremiads against the scourge of cultural theory, lists of atrocities perpetuated by Muslims, and pages of derision of ‘female sluts,’ but also Wikipedia articles about sugar beet farming and investment tips.”

How the Third Reich was founded on a conspiracy theory.

The life and mysterious death of dissident Bulgarian writer and radio journalist Georgi Markov.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.