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  • Major fire damage fills the interior at the Mountain B pub in the Sattahip district of Chonburi province, about 100 miles southeast of Bangkok, Thailand.
    A fire at a music pub in eastern Thailand kills at least 13
    Video circulating on social media showed people fleeing the pub while thick black smoke billowed from the door and then the entrance through which people were escaping was suddenly engulfed in flames.
  • The Man Who Kept The Cold War Cool
    Most people think of the Cold War as a long, glacial period, but in the beginning it was dangerously unstable. Neil Sheehan, author of A Bright Shining Lie, says there might well have been nuclear war — had it not been for one man: the subject of his latest book, A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon.
  • Houston sang two numbers from her new album, <em>I Look To You,</em> during her four-song mini-concert appearance on ABC's <em>Good Morning America</em> on September 1.
    Whitney Houston, Pushing Back Into Pop
    Whitney Houston's new album I Look To You is her first new release since 2002. Rock critic Ken Tucker says that while the pop-music landscape is not as she left it, Houston's new work fits right in.
  • The Unexamined Life Examined In 'Mrs. Bridge'
    Best-selling mystery novelist James Patterson may be known for his thrillers, but the little book that profoundly influenced his writing was far less conspicuous. Mrs. Bridge, the tale of a Kansas City husband and wife, would stay with him forever.
  • A Writer Tells (and Appears in) Daring Stories
    In Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami spins whimsical and daring short stories about a talking monkey, man-eating cats on a Greek island and the girl from Ipanema. The writer himself appears in a few of them.
  • Monica Ali Explores Secrets, Travails 'In The Kitchen'
    Author Monica Ali spent an entire year poking around "below stairs" in five London Hotel restaurants before she started writing latest novel.
  • Escape To New York: A Sentimental Trip Through 'Time'
    Time and Again spans time, finds mystery, delves into Science-Fiction, grounds itself in Einstein's theories and ultimately, settles into romance fantasy. So what's the problem? Author Susan Jane Gilman explains her guilty addiction to this cult pop thriller.
  • Obama, Romney Trade Barbs Over Bain Capital
    While the presidential campaigns traded attack ads on Friday, President Obama was on the road in Virginia. The state is a prime target for both candidates.
  • Workers at Google's parent company Alphabet want to better protect people's abortion-related location data and search history.
    Google workers sign petition asking company to protect people's abortion search data
    Workers are asking Google to protect user location data and search history from law enforcement agencies that might attempt to prosecute abortion seekers.
  • It took astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne over nine months to edit their final image. It's comprised of more than 200,000 shots pieced together to make a single photograph.
    How 2 astrophotographers teamed up to capture a stellar image of the moon
    Astrophotographers Andrew McCarthy and Connor Matherne shot over 200,000 photos of the moon over the course of a single evening to create one incredible image.
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