There are 1.7 million active Uber riders in London, about half the daily ridership of the Tube. Three years ago, there were 5,000.

The connections he made at a 2013 pageant in Russia may have helped give him the Presidency.

The life and death of Georgia Frontiere, who was the only woman owner in professional sports when her St. Louis Rams won the 2000 Super Bowl.

A friendship born out of the ruins of a nation, a dangerous journey home, and a 40-year search for the truth.

On the British and American fascination with rocking chairs and upholstery springs in the 19th century.

In Sinaloa, Mexico, women recover the bodies of missing loved ones—and cook to keep their memories of the dead alive.

Was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre actually a smokescreen to obscure an even more audacious art crime?

The making of a lost generation:

According to the Unicef report, which measured 40 indicators of quality of life – including the strength of relationships with friends and family, educational achievements and personal aspirations, and exposure to drinking, drug taking and other risky behavior – British children have the most miserable upbringing in the developed world. American children come next, second from the bottom.

Fidel Castro, the fiery apostle of revolution who brought the Cold War to the Western Hemisphere in 1959 and then defied the United States for nearly half a century as Cuba’s maximum leader, bedeviling 11 American presidents and briefly pushing the world to the brink of nuclear war, died on Friday. He was 90.

Inside the world of online dating:

If the dating sites had a mixer, you might find OK Cupid by the bar, muttering factoids and jokes, and Match.com in the middle of the room, conspicuously dropping everyone’s first names into his sentences. The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye? That would be eHarmony.

When the prosecutor in a 1924 trial focused on the murder of a priest backed the suspect–and everything that followed.

The CIA’s declassified account of the two decades two young officers spent as captives after being shot down over China during the Korean War.

Inside the dynastic war between the heirs to rulership of the largest Hasidic sect in the world. The prize – all of Hasidic Williamsburg – may prove to be ungovernable.

A behind-the-scenes account of the tense negotiations, involving Gorbachev, Kohl, Bush, and Thatcher, that led from the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall to a reunified Germany. (Translated from German.)

Stolen time with the writer as he neared the end.

The author walks to his hometown after the Great Hanshin earthquake of 1995.

On the host of MTV’s Catfish and his new book.

Rejecting the “American immortal” mentality.

The story of Donald Smaltz, an independent prosecutor run amok.

On the economics, impact, and communities of the international pipeline.

The Buckeye State’s fortunes and the fight for credit.

A profile of the legendary producer at the beginning of his career.

Stalking bluefin tuna, the most valuable wild animal in the world.

Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

After offending Richard Marx, the author meets him to hash things out.