A Polish woman who for 60 years had been holding onto the diary of a young Jewish girl killed by the Nazis in 1943, presented the journal to Israel’s Holocaust memorial yesterday.
“I have a feeling that I’m writing for the last time. There is a (roundup) in town. I’m not allowed to go out and [...]

The workings of a vital switch for controlling crop productivity have been identified following a 70-year search.
The ability to produce more food in the same area is crucial to feeding an increasing world population while curbing deforestation and dedicating more land to biofuels.
Scientists at the John Innes Centre have identified how the signal that controls [...]

A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and is learning to adapt to his new life, Polish media reported.
“I wake up at 7 a.m. and I watch TV,” Jan Grzewski, 65, told TVN24 Television over the weekend, smiling slightly as he lay in bed at his home [...]

On June 5, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after claiming victory in California’s Democratic presidential primary. Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested. (Go to article.)
1723 Economist Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland.
1794 Congress passed the Neutrality Act, prohibiting Americans from enlisting in the service of a foreign [...]

JENNIFER OPENSHAW had been walking for hours before she settled into a cafe on a side street in Florence. Her hair was pulled back in a ponytail, she wore no makeup and she had on sweat pants, a T-shirt and sneakers. Though weary from the walking, she contentedly began eating a mocha gelato.
“I was just [...]