O.J. Simpson’s “trial of the century” over the 1994 killings of his ex-wife and her friend bared divisions over race and law enforcement and brought an intersection of sports, crime, entertainment and class that was hard to turn away from.

The University of Edinburgh says Nobel prize-winning physicist Peter Higgs, who proposed the existence of a sub-atomic particle that came to be known as the Higgs boson, has died at 94.

The British Museum has appointed Nicholas Cullinan as its new director.

The British Museum is suing a former curator alleged to have stolen hundreds of artifacts from its collections and offered them for sale online.