Before she was found dead in her home’s swimming pool, Samira Mbotizafy Frasch’s life was the definition of luxurious. Originally from Madagascar, Samira was working as a fashion model in Paris when ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The smell of sulphur is often a warning. Since the 1930s, a compound of the yellow element has been added to ...

Across Mexico’s Isthmus of Tehuantepec swept a boom fever as intoxicating as tequila. In the tiny coastal towns of Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos. Mexicans with bulging bankrolls were spending them on ...

(KPLC) - For the next year, KPLC will be looking back at significant people and milestones that helped shape our communities leading up to our country’s 250th birthday. Browse through significant ...

Young workers, the “carusi,” were often bound to their padroni by debt-style advances paid to their families (Photo: Realy Easy Star/Alamy Stock Photo) Sicily once sat at the center of a global supply ...

William Edward Frasch (Bill) was born in Lancaster, Ohio March 2,1942, and peacefully died in his home May 1, 2025. He was the only child of John and Reba Frasch. He was a proud west sider graduating ...

The father of chemistry, Jabir was an eighth-century natural philosopher and experimental chemist who lived in Persia and Iraq. He wrote many books in Arabic, providing the first systematic ...