The green Mercedes, sparkling clean in the weak morning sunlight, drifted to a gentle halt in the narrow road, just a few yards up the hill from the graffiti-covered monument to Gamal Abdel Nasser. Don Mell, the young AP photographer I was dropping off at his apartment after our tennis game, had noticed it earlier at the sports club but hadn’t mentioned it-it didn’t seem important. Three unshaven young men threw open the doors and jumped out, each holding a 9mm pistol in his right hand, hanging loosely by his side....

In a makeshift socially distanced courtroom in a Cal State Sacramento ballroom, 74-year-old DeAngelo confessed to his crimes from the 1970s and ’80s in front of a room of 200 people, including his victims and their families. There was, however, an additional emotional element to the Golden State Killer’s confession. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark writer McNamara died in 2016, before she was able to finish her book and before DeAngelo was arrested....

I recently made the mistake of writing a memoir recounting adventures from my life and career as a physician and scientist. Naturally, the writing process led me to also meditate on my many regrets, which unfortunately I didn’t get a chance to detail in the book because my publisher wanted to “keep things positive.” One of my biggest regrets is that I never mastered a musical instrument. I played percussion as a student and also took piano lessons, but didn’t stick with it....

Consider the case Toronto FC, which seemed like a team of destiny this year after it rode its way through a rollercoaster playoff campaign to the brink of the MLS Cup, only to have it snatched away on its own turf by the slimmest of margins. Despite dominating the stat sheet against the Seattle Sounders at BMO Field on Saturday night, TFC had to watch as the Cascadian visitors celebrated following a 5-4 victory on penalty kicks....

The Swedish striker announced his arrival in England in the summer of 2016 by bolding declaring that he would trump the status of ‘king’ Eric Cantona at Old Trafford. Zlatan the best veteran No. 9 ever? He has set about that task in some style, netting 28 times in his debut campaign with the Red Devils. Ibrahimovic was arguably even more talismanic at Paris Saint-Germain, though, as he plundered 156 goals in 180 appearances, and a former colleague at Parc des Princes says the 35-year-old was never afraid of talking up his status in the French capital....

I actually thought I would have been married by thirty, however, thirty came and went and by fifty-eight, I was still unmarried. But, I always believed I was marriage material, and never considered otherwise. I am a big proponent of vision and vision boards. I write my vision for my life in twenty-year time frames. After the first twenty years past, I had accomplished everything on that particular vision except marriage....

In 2014, I moved to London, England, to study business in college. I was an international student, I didn’t have any friends or family around me, and I couldn’t speak English well. That’s when I began having anxiety attacks; I felt very lonely, became homesick, and developed depression. At the time, I didn’t have any of my dogs around me, which was difficult. I had asked my dad if I could have a dog in London but he was against the idea, as we did not know if I was going to stay in the U....

From an early age I could feel others’ emotions and had an understanding of other people’s experience, but I suppressed this because I wanted to try and fit in. At 18 I got a job in London. It was incredibly stressful and I soon burnt out. At 21 I developed quinsy—an abscess in my throat. I left my job at an investment bank, got married and had a son. I started working in property development....

What followed, according to several sources who were in the room last Thursday afternoon, was a jut-jawed, disjointed discourse with a tinge of diatribe and a crescendo of podium pounding. The president dismissed questions about his administration’s counterterrorism actions–or lack of them–before September 11 as mere Democratic partisanship. “I sniff some politics in the air,” he scoffed. Then he wandered off to the Middle East, recounting a blunt Oval Office conversation with Ariel Sharon....

I speak from experience. I struggled with anorexia and bulimia, a binge eating disorder and then depression for more than a decade—between 2003 and 2015. It’s hard to believe looking at me now, because I am a healthy, happy professional woman, but I was once tortured by voices in my head, ones that told me that if I wanted even the smallest chance of amounting to anything, I had to be pretty, skinny and beautiful....

I stood up to get my iPad out of my bag but I stumbled in the aisle as the train sped up. We started leaning, and I grabbed the luggage rack above my head, holding on with both hands. We couldn’t be tipping, I thought. Trains don’t tip. My last memory is the sound of my own scream. Amtrak 188 was going 106 miles per hour when it derailed on a curve designed for a maximum of 50 miles per hour on May 12, 2015....

I have been an obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) for 10 years, and so often when somebody comes in to see me for an annual exam and talks about their periods, it’s like opening Pandora’s Box. When I ask about sex, there is often a pause, so I ask if sex hurts, and they tell me that it’s miserable experience. I feel like there is a culture where people don’t know how to access information and are typically only taught how not to get pregnant....

After making what could be his last United appearance as a late substitute in the Europa League final on Wednesday, Rooney revealed he has “lots of offers from England and abroad” and is close to reaching a decision on his future. The forward struggled to establish himself in Jose Mourinho’s plans for United this season, starting only 15 Premier League games and scoring five goals. Robson, formerly United’s captain and now a club ambassador, knows the current skipper well and thinks he will opt to join a new team for the 2017-18 season as a result of his reduced role....

For decades, I have woven my twin passions of literature and educating adolescents into a rewarding practice of reading with young people. I believe in the power of literature to move us and to transform us. That belief led me to become a high school English teacher and eventually, a college professor in Minnesota, a teacher of future teachers of literature. In my own classrooms, I have seen the power in Art Spiegelman’s “Maus”, recently banned from school libraries in Tennessee, as students come to grip with the horrors of the Holocaust in a classroom full of trust and bravery....

But even as I grew up, the gut instinct a lot of people have telling them that they want to have children just wasn’t there for me. I wanted to get married, but I never really imagined children being part of my future. That feeling has never changed. Up until my mid-20s, I would always say “I don’t think I want children, but that might change.’’ Because previously, when I had given a firmer answer, people were so quick to say I was wrong and would change my mind when I got older, married or when my body clock started ticking....

When I arrived, it turned out that the kittens’ mother had been hit by a car. I couldn’t just leave them, they were teeny tiny newborns. When I was in my car with them, I started calling animal shelters, explaining that I didn’t really know what to do with them. Everywhere I called said that they would have to put the kittens to sleep because at such a young age they require too much in the way of resources and time to keep alive....

Within a couple of months of opening in 2015, one of our volunteers found Maverick in somebody’s yard. He had been hit by a car twice—weeks apart we were eventually told—and was paralysed and couldn’t move. The idea of him coming in scared me. I wondered how I was going to handle it and whether we would be able to help this dog. And then I met him and fell in love....

But now, as people are venturing back out into the world, it seems many would like to forget that we are in a pandemic. I have treated COVID-19 patients in two different hot spots in the past six months, and even as we’ve reached the milestone of 200,000 deaths from this virus, healthcare workers have drifted out of the spotlight. As a surgeon in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, I was transfixed by the news, perpetually scrolling through Twitter as the case numbers in the U....

I remember wondering how we were still having these conversations about whether women could compete physically, so I decided to take the test myself and I actually passed it twice before I was hired by the FDNY in 1997, at the age of 30. My first four years in the fire department were challenging, but I had been born and raised in Brooklyn in the ’70s and ’80s before it was a chic place to be....

Belotti was one of a number of players whose performance was below par as the Azzurri were resoundingly beaten at the Santiago Bernabeu, courtesy of two goals from Isco and one for Alvaro Morata. England and Slovakia 7/2 to draw The result saw Spain move three points ahead of Giampiero Ventura’s side in their World Cup qualifying group with three games to play. The 23-year-old explained his bizarre injury and went on to defend coach Ventura’s decision to play an attacking 4-2-4 formation....