My wife and I are spending our retirement living in over 43 different countries. As Americans, I wish I'd known about ...

The Alaska Gold Rush town of Nome was hundreds of miles from anywhere, cut off by the frozen sea and under siege from a ...

Cindy Siegel Shepler had made her decision: she was flying to Switzerland – one of the first countries in the world to allow ...

This is part of Why I Moved, a recurring series about Americans building a life abroad. While Michael Sable had never given much thought to living in a different country, Ireland ...

I live in a small, remote community in northern Canada called Beaver Creek, where running basic errands and buying groceries ...

Many who knew feisty Holocaust survivor and archivist Ursula Flicker tell of her prickly personality and high expectations ...

Here's the standard high school history class summary of the Soviet Union: The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was ...

All around the world, scientists are working to recreate lost animal species such as the mammoth. Using modern genetic ...

A boy plays in the snow during Siberia's notoriously cold winter. Far from Kremlin leaders in Moscow and the frontlines of ...

In the heart of Russia's Siberian region lies a city that endures perpetual permafrost, yet experiences temperatures hotter ...

Yakutsk in Siberia, Russia is one of the coldest places in the world, with a record low temperature of -64C recorded on 5 ...