Lifestyle

I cook my rice in the microwave. Not because the microwave makes it taste extra special — but because it is one of the most convenient ways to achieve consistently well-cooked rice.The microwave...

Paul Berg, a Nobel Prize-winning biochemist who ushered in the era of genetic engineering in 1971 by successfully combining DNA from two different organisms, died on Wednesday at his home on the...

LONDON — The air in the big black tent in the middle of Kennington Park, South London, was thick with expectations. They oozed around the benches, covered in plaid blankets, that snaked...

“The weather decides”: It could almost be the motto of Greenland. Visitors drawn to this North Atlantic island to see its powder blue glaciers, iceberg-clogged fjords and breathtakingly stark landscapes quickly learn...

Dear Tripped Up,Last May, my wife and I were headed from New York to Valencia, Spain, via Munich, when the first leg of our Lufthansa flight was delayed, causing us to miss...

At a table near the stage, celebrants wrote messages to Ms. Ono on cardboard tags and picked up white carnations and button-size hand mirrors that said “Morning Piece for Yoko Ono” on...

Whatever a certain rodent’s speculations on the start of spring might be, February will always be a cold, gray slog. It’s inevitably the time when I daydream of flying off to some...

Don Lemon, a co-host of “CNN This Morning,” is still off the air, four days after apologizing on Twitter and internally for describing Nikki Haley on the show last Thursday as “past...

Where do broken hearts go on Valentine’s Day? Or any day for that matter? While romantics across the city were presumably holding hands over small bistro tables at overpriced restaurants or seated...

If you’re planning to dine out in Buenos Aires, be prepared for an unfamiliar sight: lines. As the city springs back to life, the streets feel almost celebratory, an antidote to the...