Author Eric Dolin provided opening remarks for his lecture about a fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig, and a British warship in the Falkland archipelago ...

More than a billion people are set to tune in to watch the Times Square ball drop tonight. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Across the world, countries celebrate New Year's Eve and the official beginning of the next year at different times due to ...