News in Mid Queens only picked up as the year gradually came to a close.Some issues from the first half of the year came to a ...

By James Wagner and Luis Antonio Rojas CreditLuis Antonio Rojas for The New York Times. From the Surf to the Sermon: The Christian Surfers of Costa Rica A group of missionaries who surf have ...

In New Orleans, Celebration Is Followed by Terror in the French Quarter The attack left 15 dead and about three dozen injured. The authorities described it as an act ...

Today is also National Science Fiction Day, a date that honors the birth, 105 years ago, of literary sci-fi genius Isaac Asimov. A Russian immigrant ...

The island of Syros in Greece has been voted recently the second most welcoming destination in the world, according to traveler reviews at Booking.com. The Brazilian city of Arraial d'Ajuda, famed for ...