The 1,000th anniversary of a city in France, Vesak Day celebrations in Indonesia, the Eurovision Song Contest in Switzerland, and much more

For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science eventually proved her right.

Jules Feiffer, who died in January, taught me many things, but one comic strip mattered most of all.

The Nobel Prize–winning novelist, who died this week, traveled through both literature and politics with a heedlessness you had to admire.

The Grand National horse race in Liverpool, a Nepali New Year festival in Kathmandu, a stranded parachutist in France, an anti–Elon Musk event in London, and much more