If you were poor, estranged from your family, or simply passing through the city, accepting a hospitable round of whisky from the wrong stranger could literally cost you your life and reduce your remains to a commodity for medical science

Jean Hanlon's family spent more than 15 years fighting a ruling of accidental drowning. A court in eastern Crete has now convicted her former partner of her murder and sentenced him to 10 years

The Tartan Army did not come to Boston as diplomats. But they left behind what traditional diplomacy has too often struggled to produce lately: goodwill, easy conversation and a sense of shared humanity