This was a week from hell! Every which way you turned, human beings were crying, suffering, dying, from natural or man-made disasters.

Unlike the planet Mars, Cornish Mars attracts visitors daily, and is even pinned on Google Maps with its Martian nickname.

An aerial photograph of Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus shows excavations of two of the city’s industrial quarters.(Courtesy Peter M. Fischer) More than 40 years ago, a Turkish sponge diver named Mehmet ...