Chuck Pelletier was depressed and weary when he was released from the Canadian military, deemed unemployable after months of removing body parts — the victims of Swiss Air Flight 111 — from the Atlantic Ocean throughout the fall of 1998.
Mr. Pelletier signed up as a volunteer with the United Nations to prove that he was [...]

“What if?” The question is the mantra of the war-gamer. What if a friendly state becomes hostile? What if enemy forces surge beyond expectations? What if defenses do not work as planned? The higher the potential costs of the answer, the greater the question’s significance. And, when it comes to nuclear matters, what-ifs, however iffy, [...]

Teacher Eri van den Biggelaar told the children ‘Where I will go is much nicer than this world’
A Dutch primary school teacher dying of cancer is overseeing one last project among her pupils: they are making her coffin.
Eri van den Biggelaar, 40, has just a few weeks to live after being diagnosed last year with [...]

When Jaime Hawkins found $10,000 beside an automated bank machine, he thought he may have interrupted some kind of drug transaction.
“It was kind of hidden inconspicuously. That kinda was on my mind like ‘Oh no, maybe I’ve foiled some deal that was supposed to go down,’” he said.
It was Jan. 9 when the 29-year-old Saint [...]

An ethnic Chinese Malaysian mistakenly given by doctors to a Malay Muslim couple at birth nearly three decades ago is bracing for a possible legal battle so he can renounce Islam, an action that can be considered a crime in parts of Malaysia.
Zulhaidi Omar, 29, who now goes by the name Eddie to his family [...]