For about half a mile along the E84 highway, also known as Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Road, motorists in the right-hand lane ...

In a Slovenian cave near the Idrijca River, archaeologists unearthed a strange artifact in 1995: a fragment of bone, about the length of a finger, punctured with round holes and charred by ancient ...

No radio? No problem. The emirate of Fujairah has installed rumble strips along a 750-meter (half-mile) stretch of highway ...

FUJAIRAH, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The humble road rumble strip, used around the world to alert drifting drivers to potential hazards or lane departures, can play Beethoven on a mountain highway in ...

Beethoven was a master — maybe the ultimate master — of the technique of using small motifs (a few notes, a melodic fragment, a rhythmic gesture) to generate an entire movement, ...

Beethoven was mostly bedridden for the next few months, receiving visitors and being showered with gifts and tributes as news of his illness spread. On March 24, 1827, ...

The Beethoven of biographical legend spurned the aristocracy and asserted the freedom of the individual. Although he fed that image by striking defiant poses—supposedly, he once chastised Goethe ...

DNA from strands of Beethoven’s hair is helping to uncover what may have caused his death, researchers say. The composer was plagued with health issues for most of his life. On March 26, 1827 ...

Beethoven didn’t make these changes happen, but he was an encourager. He wanted a “louder” piano. Yes, he was losing his hearing, but he was also writing challenging music.

Cookbook author J. Kenji López-Alt and Seattle Chamber Music Society team up to present an evening of live performance, ...

Beethoven drank copious amounts of wine, about a bottle a day, and later in his life even more, believing it was good for his health, and also, Dr. Meredith said, because he had become addicted to it.

Every driver who takes to the highway leading to the Emirati city of Fujairah is getting a chance to make music, specifically Beethoven's 9th Symphony.