Napoleon

A cemetery in Middlebury is the final resting place of someone unlike anyone else in any other Vermont cemetery. “It’s a great Vermont story,” observed Tom Giffin of the Vermont Old Cemetery Association. In the West Cemetery, located across Route 30 from the Middlebury College Center for the Arts, the ashes of an actual mummy from ancient Egypt are buried….

The Notre Dame Cathedral has long been regarded as a spiritual beacon, architectural marvel, monument to Parisian beauty and a towering symbol of French national pride. But the flames that engulfed the centuries-old structure on Monday threatened to demolish part of that rich cultural legacy, NBC News reports. “It is bone-chilling. It is heartbreaking,” Caroline Bruzelius, a professor of architectural...

Tucked in the pages of a grimy, leather-bound almanac in the archives at New York’s Union College was a tiny envelope with the hand-scrawled words “Washington’s hair.”

A half-mile zip line from the second floor of the Eiffel Tower lets people zoom over the City of Light, as a way to celebrate the French Open, being held in Paris.

John Leicester has reported from France for The Associated Press since 2002. This week, he got to try zip lining off the Eiffel Tower. This is his account of his wild ride.

The founder of an organization that installed boxes where mothers in crisis can anonymously relinquish their infants is undeterred by a warning from Indiana that the boxes are illegal.

The two amorous donkeys who were separated because of an outcry over their lovemaking have been reunited at a zoo in Poland.

Napoleon the tortoise who escaped from his South Bay home has returned to his owner.