Christopher Coats

Saddled by production problems and uncertainty in both Nigeria and an explosive Libya, Italy’s energy giant Eni started 2014 on shaky ground. The company began the year by posting a 4th quarter loss of $832 million, a 14% decline from last year, though slightly better than industry expectations.

A biography of Cammi Granato, the longtime captain of the USA women’s hockey team and a 2010 inductee into the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Celebrating two firsts in May, Dutch clinical geneticist Dr. Marjolein Kriek, 34, of Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) in the Netherlands, became the first woman and the first European to have her complete DNA sequence determined.

A modern mythmaker with a golden touch, Lee’s attention to emotion and actual feelings, in a genre dominated by action, has made the mind behind Marvel among the most successful and widely known names in comics.

A profile of Rod Serling, creator of the Twilight Zone, in celebration of his December 25 birthday

Blending southern poetry and a loose, all-encompassing handling of the guitar, Lightnin’ Hopkins brought a Texas accent to the masses with one of the most prolific blues careers in history.

Raised in the heartland of American technology, Steve Jobs launched a career in the mid-1970s that would place him at the pinnacle of innovation and creativity, inventing Apple and changing the way we live with computers.

The discovery of 49 bodies in the ruins of one of the Aztec’s final points of resistance against Spanish conquistadors has raised many questions.

Reflecting a new acceptance of genetically engineered animals, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug manufactured using milk from altered goats.

In honor of Paul Newman’s January 26 birthday, a look at the actor’s background, major films and life’s work.

Born into a vagabond life on the outskirts of Paris in 1910, Django Reinhardt took on the fledgling world of jazz and re-imagined it through his gypsy roots, bringing the guitar to the fore and changing the perception of the instrument forever.

Angry, overprotective parents, a longtime presence at youth sporting events, have made one unlikely restaurant chain the latest site for violence and mayhem.

Jorg Haider was celebrated and derided at home and abroad, and his death may clear the path to a stronger right wing in an increasingly conservative Austria.

After thirteen years of evasion, disguises and assumed identities, the search for one of the United Nations’ most wanted men has come to an end.

On April 27, 1521, explorer Ferdinand Magellan was killed by a Filipino tribe, months after he had become the first man to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. The surviving members of his crew would sail back to Spain, completing the first circumnavigation of the world.