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Today is International Women's Day. The event got its start in the U.S., but is more widely celebrated elsewhere.

The K-pop superstar and BTS member performs a set of solo material in front of a very impressive replica of the Tiny Desk.

Unverified videos show people breaking down barriers and marching through streets in Guangzhou as frustration boils over about China's strict COVID-19 controls.

The retail giant becomes the latest major player in the drug industry to announce a plan to settle lawsuits filed by state and local governments over the toll of opioids sold at its pharmacies.

A public hearing is planned in Huntersville Thursday night on Colonial Pipeline's plans to process and release treated wastewater into a creek at the site of a massive 2020 gasoline spill.

It's hard to overstate the kindness and good-natured humor the U2 singer and guitarist brought to this set, where they performed reimagined songs from All That You Can't Leave Behind.

The story of a man so in love that he's willing to burn down Rome — and the emperor who is able to forgive him.

Mozart's premier creative partnership with Lorenzo Da Ponte produced a masterpiece for the ages, and one of the only successful sequels to an existing plot. This comic opera continues where playwrite Beaumarchais' The Barber Of Seville leaves off.

The New York Times has twice experimented with making some readers pay for online content, and twice it has backed away. On Thursday morning, the newspaper's executives announced they would make the most loyal readers pay to access its website, though a lot of casual readers would not pay a cent.

Elizabeth Futral and Paul Groves star in The Elixir of from the Washington National Opera.

With each pecan pie and batch of molasses cookies, Emily Smith hones the baking skills she learned from her elders. The Emory University student believes baking is an expression of love for her family.

Dr. Sherwin Nuland, the surgeon who wrote How We Die, calls his latest book a project he has been working on for more than 76 years. Called The Art of Aging, the book's topics range from the adjustments everyone faces with age to stories of people who retain grace and vigor.

Google is trying to sharpen its Artificial Intelligence Engine by feeding it thousands of romance novels.

How Vivaldi — as well as Handel, Haydn and Rossini — made hits out of a single poem filled with passion, violence, mystery and magic.

He may have written this opera when he was just 18 years old, but Mozart shows us the method inside his characters' doubled madness.

Toni Morrison wrote the libretto for this opera, based on a real-life story about an enslaved woman who killed her daughter rather than let her be returned to slavery.

Kurt Weill unleashed his entire musical and dramatic arsenal in this astonishing and decadent opera, which he wrote in his early twenties. The action is set in a fictional American city, but it's reminiscent of Weimar, Germany.

Gluck's operatic reforms emphasized simpler, more straightforward musical forms which served to heighten the drama, especially in 'Iphigenia in Aulis.' It's the classic story of a young woman whose father summons her for a wedding, but instead offers her up as a human sacrifice.

After Dvorak, Smetana and Janacek, Bohuslav Martinu continued the long and distinguished line of Czech opera composers. Characters both sacred and profane struggle for supremacy in Martinu's unique stage drama, inspired by the medieval tradition of mystery and miracle Plays.

Handel's operas are only just emerging from obscurity -- like the exiled king in Rodelinda, who fakes his own death and then makes an daring comeback in a maze of intrigue and blackmail.