The opera director—whose Met début, “Tristan und Isolde,” premières next week—discusses a few of his influences.

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It isn't on any "best album of all time" lists, yet it's sold more than The Dark Side of the Moon, Purple Rain and Abbey Road combined. Why is the Eagles' 1976 LP so amazingly popular?

Former Coalition leader Peter Dutton has described the Liberal Party’s suppressed election review as a gratuitously personal ...

Because Ali Khamenei was killed in a foreign airstrike rather than dying in bed, the succession is unfolding under a different set of rules. Instead of a planned insider handover, Iran now faces a ...

The revelations paint a picture of a missed opportunity for peace, thwarted by the unpredictable escalation of hostilities across the Persian Gulf ...