You may know him as the cranky lawyer from the '90s TV series "Picket Fences." But he got his first break as a child star in the Yiddish theater in Brooklyn. Fyvush Finkel died on Sunday at his home in Manhattan. He was 93.

In 1980, Randy Goodman was a 24-year-old post-graduate with big interest in politics and photography. A grand opportunity knocked on the door when she was asked to go to Iran along with a group of Americans to find out what was behind the US Embassy hostage crisis.

Nima Samimi, a.k.a Muhammad Seven, gets inspiration from both his Iranian background as well as his American one. His latest album is called Bedouin Cowboy — and was produced entirely on his iPhone.

The events of June 16, 1816 — when Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein — might offer us a glimpse into our future.

They call it stambeli. It’s a style of traditional religious music from Tunisia with roots in the pre-Islamic history of Africa. But it might not be around for too much longer.

Space is at a premium in most big cities — but even then space is usually reserved for the dead. In Berlin, though, many old cemeteries are being converted as public spaces.

Viggo Mortensen talks acting, politics and his new film, Captain Fantastic.

The ancient Greeks staged games every four years, for over a thousand years, on the field of Olympia. Times were rough, and so was the competition.

Bureaucrazy is an app that helps new arrivals break through Germany's notorious red tape.

The government in Rio de Janeiro commissioned an official funk carioca song for the Olympics, because the style is so popular in the city. But funk musicians in Rio say city authorities have been cracking down on them for years, raiding their parties and destroying their equipment.