For July, jewelers Julie Merrill, Jody Ochs and Monty Phillips will showcase their work in the F.W. Front Gallery at Woolworth Walk, 25 Haywood St., downtown Asheville. An opening reception will be 5-7 p.m. Friday. Merrill has studied medicinal plants …

Stepping inside is like entering a fine jewelry store. Truffles sit in cases like diamonds. Do you have any culinary rookie moments? I did a vocational program in high school where I was sous chef for the day. I put a pot of water on the stove, forgot …

The looks span fashion and fine jewelry options, from swingy drop earrings to a dramatic bib necklace studded in rubies and diamonds. "Gemstones can signify the magnitude of the occasion," said Josh Holland, a senior manager at Blue Nile. "Sapphires …

In Call the Midwife — the popular new BBC costume drama about midwives in post-World War II London just finishing its second season in the US and renewed for a third — it's Sister Monica Joan who steals the show, an elderly, aristocratic nun with a …

MGM also invested in German rearmament to get around currency export restrictions, the historian said. Urwand believes that filmmakers not only wanted to continue working during the build up to the war, they also thought Hitler may win the war and …

We expressed concerns for the gentleman's mental state-of-being, but we wound up handing over the currency. We had come too far to stop now. We pushed forward, into the maw of the great battle, and wound up at the back of a large crowd watching some …

"Riyadh, Washington and London manage a conspiracy to undermine the Syrian currency by flooding Lebanon and Jordan with Syrian pounds," The west is also launching a financial war through sanctions that range from a ban on Syrian oil to prohibition of …

The event comes nearly two decades after the end of Croatia's war for independence from the former Yugoslavia, and after years of sometimes unpopular EU-mandated reforms. The country of some 4.4 million people becomes the second former Yugoslav state …

Bombardier's move adds to the struggles of its first full-size airliner, a challenger to the Boeing Co.-Airbus SAS duopoly on narrow-body planes. The company set the June target in November, scrapping plans for a … Bombardier, which also builds …