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Half a decade has passed since the levies in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward broke, flooding the city and devastating lives. TIME looks back at the stories that were told there

The men of gun-loving Chechnya, long Russia’s most rebellious province, are not known for turning the other cheek. So many observers were baffled last week when the region’s most notorious feud ended without a fight.

As Iceland ups its fishing quota of mackerel, Europe accuses the country of plundering seas already suffering from dwindling fish stocks

The international man of mystery boarded the midnight train from Pyongyang, headed (for reasons known only to him and his unforthcoming hosts) to China

The other Thursday, as people walked in early to one of the 500 theaters where the RiffTrax demolition of Reefer Madness was scheduled to play, they found one of those pre-show movie trivia games in progress on-screen.

A new study suggests that young children possess a skill many adults assume they lack: they are able to judge when a human behavior is statistically probable versus when it is unusual.

With months left underground, Chilean miners face a harrowing mental ordeal

New evidence suggests that breastfeeding may help keep mothers, as well as babies, healthier

Glenn Beck spoke to rally people in Washington, D.C. on Saturday. For those looking on as he spoke before the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke of his dream 47 years ago, it was easy to know how Beck felt.

The end of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell could persuade some top schools to allow military training back on campus