Willa Fauth and Nancy Strodel, both 95, have been best friends in the Syracuse area for about four years. They met at Loretto’s Nottingham retirement community and started a fast friendship.

a Chinese potter made a clay urn using her ashes so that he could put his remains into the receptacle after he dies as a form of reunion. The 62-year-old from eastern China’s Shandong province ...

59.7 x 44.4 cm. (23.5 x 17.5 in.) ...

Among the pieces still in existence from this period are those from the famous Lewis chessmen hoard – the cache of 12th or 13th century walrus ivory carvings that now ... the St George and the Old ...