Riga (Latvia)

It’s always busy for Chicago Police on New Year’s Eve but when Austin District Patrol Officer William Riga learned he’d be elbow to elbow with the superintendent himself, another factor was in the mix. “Initially I felt a...

Sin mediar ninguna pregunta de Joaquín López-Dóriga, el conductor de El Noticiero, edición estelar del Canal de las Estrellas, el candidato presidencial de lo que ya nombran como Movimiento Progresista, explicó ante el silencio sepulcral del primero:...

Italy Italy will reinstate passport controls for the G8 Summit to be held July 8-10 in L'Aquila. The controls will be in place from June 28 through July 15, meaning all travelers arriving in Italy must be prepared to show their passports. Normally such...

JACQUES CHIRAC IS expected to step down next year as France's president, so his clownish performance at Tuesday's NATO summit in Riga, Latvia, was apparently something of a final Bronx cheer for his fellow Atlantic Alliance leaders. At a time when the...

Americans are often unaware of major cultural trends developing just slightly off the beaten path. Take the Scandinavian Whodunit Boom. A month ago, Karin Fossum's novel, "The Indian Bride," won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for best mystery. Fossum, a...

"Defenders of Riga," a post- World War I drama on a large scale, is Latvia's submission for this year's best foreign film Oscar. It's the biggest film to be released in the Baltic nation, surpassing "Titanic," the previous record holder, at the box...