Natasha Frost

The find was front page news, just as the original disaster had been. In September, 1985, the New York Times proclaimed: “Wreckage of Titanic Reported Discovered 12,000 Feet Down.” The famous ship’s remains were found at the bottom of the ocean by “a team of American and French researchers,” the paper reported, later clarifying that American researchers were scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

As of last year, the Netherlands was home to some 9,000 Tesla drivers—one for roughly every 1,900 people. Nearly three-quarters of them, according to figures released by the Dutch Board of Statistics, picked up at least one speeding ticket last year, beating owners of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, or any other car brand.

When Airbnb last month (Nov. 20) announced plans to suspend almost 200 listings in the West Bank, they were met with fury from Israeli politicians, who accused them of discrimination and “a disgraceful surrender” to the pressure of pro-Palestinian and human rights organizations alike.

It’s a find worthy of Indiana Jones: the tomb of an Egyptian royal priest and his family, left untouched for thousands of years in the ancient necropolis of Saqqara, south of Cairo. Egyptian authorities announced the rare discovery on Saturday (Dec. 15), according to the New York Times (paywall). Excavation has been underway since November.

Dinner. It happens every night, whether you’re ready or not.

Over the next few days, many thousands of American high school seniors will receive what may feel like the most important news of their lifetime.

To the claims of bankers that working with women in the age of #MeToo is too risky, Richard Handler and Brian Friedman, the CEO and bank president of investment bank Jefferies, suggest an alternative view: “We cannot control the markets, but we can control how we act and behave.”

If you miss Comet 46P/Wirtanen this year, it probably won’t be your last chance to see it. The blazing celestial body passes near the Earth roughly every five and a half years. But just because you can miss Comet 46P/Wirtanen doesn’t mean you should—because this year’s appearance promises to be one of the best in four centuries. And if that’s not enough, it’ll probably also be the brightest comet visible in 2018. Comets are at their brightest when they reach their perihelion, or closest approach to the sun. For Comet 46P/Wirtanen, this will fall on Sunday (Dec. 16).

The UK spent $1.2 billion ($3.1 bilion, in today’s dollars) on a war to win back the Falkland Islands in 1982. Thirty-six years on, one of the 700-odd islands is now up for grabs—and you don’t even need to assemble your military to get it.

If you have money weighing down your pockets, here’s an unusual investment proposition: a Chinese company that makes brick and hauls waste is diversifying into the famously opaque Old Masters market, and selling shares in some of the most valuable pieces of fine art available. For a small sum, you may soon be able to own a small piece (or maybe more, depending on the depths of your pockets) of a $75 million painting the company says is by Michelangelo—via 7.5 million shares of the company offered at $10 apiece.

In the weeks since British backpacker Grace Millane, 21, went missing while on vacation in New Zealand, a local story has gone round the world—and all the way back again. Millane’s disappearance first made international headlines in early December, compounded by the later discovery of her body on Sunday (Dec. 8). Now, a 26-year-old New Zealand man has been charged with her murder and is awaiting trial. Google may be breaking New Zealand law by disseminating his name to New Zealanders via email.

If you’re heading to the UK for the holidays, there hasn’t been a better time to put your spending money in sterling for a while.

British prime minister Theresa May decisively won a vote of no-confidence brought by her own party today. The embattled leader, who has been managing the almost impossible task of seeing through Brexit, secured 200 votes, with 117 against her. She needed at least 159 votes from Conservative MPs.

A problem: America faces a pension crisis of fearsome proporations. To solve it, states need money, and fast. A possible solution? Legal marijuana—and the greened-out greenbacks it brings to state coffers.

About 2,000 years ago, in a Roman shrine not far from what is now Oxfordshire, England, an 18-inch copper-alloy and lead statuette of the Roman goddess of wisdom surveyed the scene with silver eyes. The shrine no longer exists—the figure of Minerva, on the other hand, spent hundreds of years buried in a nearby field.

Eighty years ago, scientists thought a giant spinning centrifuge machine was the best way to slow down the aging process. Sound crazy? Well, today’s stem-cell treatments would probably have seemed no less remote in the 1930s.

A global war on truth is afoot. In Donald Trump’s view, it pits the American people versus their enemy: journalists, and the “fake news media.” For Time magazine, and many others, it’s journalists who are the guardians of truth, safeguarding it from an onslaught of alternative facts and misinformation.

It’s a dish, as the old joke goes, to die for. Fugu, also known as pufferfish, is a Japanese delicacy that comes seasoned with an outside chance of death.

Many millennia ago, in around 2000 BC, a gaggle of nomadic desert herders spent their downtime in a way that will feel familiar to many modern families: They sat down together, and played a board game.

You may know it as a bum bag, a travel pouch, a belly bag, a belt bag, or even a butt pack. But whatever you call it, the fanny pack is having a moment.

Federal prosecutors recommend that Michael Cohen receive a “substantial prison sentence” for an array of greed-motivated crimes. The former lawyer for Donald Trump “repeatedly used his power and influence for deceptive ends,” they said in a court filing released today (Dec. 7).

Altria Group Inc., the US maker of Marlboro cigarettes, is moving into the pot sector,  paying $1.8 billion for a 45% stake in Canadian cannabis firm Cronos, according to reports from Bloomberg.

In 1926, whisky makers at Scotland’s Macallan Distillery took a Spanish-made oak cask, filled it with Oloroso sherry, to absorb the flavors, emptied it, and then filled it with a clear, pre-maturation whisky, known as “new make” spirit. Then they waited. And waited, and waited.

It was one of the most incredible moments in the history of women’s sports—or it should have been.