On 9 August, the Indian city of Kolkata was shaken when a trainee doctor was found raped and murdered at one of its oldest ...

When Marco Polo returned to Venice from a place he called Catai in 1295, he brought back sublime tales of another world. Polo’s Book of the Marvels of the World told of paper money, a burning ...

The Wall is a game show that combines general trivia knowledge and luck, as contestants' pursuit of a big cash prize is not entirely up to them. That is part of what makes the NBC game show a fun ...

An international team of scholars has revealed that the famous sculpture of the Lion of St. Mark may be an elaborate reassembly of a Chinese tomb guardian lion from the Tang era. The announcement came ...

Mr. Cassinelli, who described himself as a small-scale art collector ... empty space on the wall by his bookcase. Mr. Cassinelli went online and bought a replica Roaring Lion portrait which ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

A hotel worker discovered something was amiss with the portrait, named "The Roaring Lion," in August 2022. He noticed the frame of the print did not match the others, the Smithsonian reported ...

In August 2022, Ottawa’s Fairmont Château Laurier hotel reported that Armenian-Canadian photographer Yousuf Karsh’s ubiquitous 1941 “Roaring Lion” portrait, which has appeared on British ...

In 2016, Steward Health Care System paid out a $790 million dividend—the lion’s share going to the hospital chain’s private-equity owner, Cerberus Capital Management. That money could have ...

Meanwhile, the Cboe Market Volatility index (.VIX), opens new tab, also called Wall Street's "fear gauge," hit its highest level in nearly a month on Friday. "There's concern that the Fed is not ...