LONDON T here’s a beautifully groomed Mary in a blue party dress, a fashionable Joseph gazing adoringly at the baby, and wise men carrying a Faberge egg, a crystal bottle of perfume and a decorated skull. With only a few days to go until Christmas, a church group unveiled a poster recently to remind people […]

At the close of 1861, President Abraham Lincoln finds himself at war at home — and fending off a diplomatic crisis with Britain that threatens hostilities if not handled delicately. Though outrage lingers in London after the Union warship USS San Jacinto stopped the neutral British ship Trent east of Cuba on Nov. 8, 1861 […]

SUNNYVALE, Calif. You’ve heard of tech companies starting in a Silicon Valley garage. What about on a ship? That’s the idea being floated by a California startup that wants to dock a vessel off the coast to house foreign entrepreneurs who have dreams of creating the next Google but can’t get visas to work in […]

When the time came for Merriam- Webster to pick its top word of 2011, its editors decided they needed to be pragmatic. So they chose … pragmatic. The word, an adjective that means practical and logical, was looked up so often on Merriam- Webster’s online dictionary that the publisher says “pragmatic” was the pragmatic choice […]

BRUNSWICK — The body of a man likely in his mid-40s was discovered Thursday afternoon along the railroad tracks between Bath Road and Route 1. Brunswick Police responded at 12:14 p.m. to the tracks between Merrymeeting Plaza and Discount Tire on Bath Road, where a man reported finding the body near a small campsite, Deputy […]