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This composite image shows five remaining candidates for the British Conservative Party leadership: Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Kemi Badenoch, Rishi Sunak and Tom Tugendhat.

Here are the 5 candidates to replace U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson as Tory leader

The search is on for the next Conservative Party leader — and ultimately a new prime minister. This is a look at the contenders.

The Sheepherder's Ball: Hidden Basque Kitchens

In the last century, Basque people fleeing Francisco Franco's dictatorship flocked to America. "Hidden Kitchens" explores their world of outdoor, below-the-ground, Dutch oven cooking traditions.

Recognizing Your Inner Fish

Paleontologist Neil Shubin discusses his new book, Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year-History of the Human Body. Shubin traces the hand and other human features back to creatures that roamed the earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

Rising Sea Levels Threaten Egypt's Ancient Cities

In Egypt, where antiquities have stood for millennia, climate change is posing new threats to an ancient country and its people.

France Honors American Novelist with Book Awards

Two of France's most prestigious book awards have gone to American Jonathan Littell for his first serious novel. Written in French, Les Bienveillantes or The Kindly Ones, is in the form of a memoir by a former SS officer who leads a hidden life in a French town. The novel is a huge hit in France.

Josh Ritter is a singer-songwriter who has released six albums. <em>Bright's Passage </em>is his first novel.

Josh Ritter: First A Songwriter, Now A Novelist

In Josh Ritter's first novel, Bright's Passage, a World War I soldier goes home to West Virginia and must protect himself and his infant son. The book contains Ritter's trademark combination of humor, gothic themes and fantastical imagery (an angel who inhabits the body of a horse).

A marble sculpture from the 4th century B.C. shows winged griffins attacking a fallen doe. It was purchased by the Getty Museum in 1985. A decade later, authorities seized Polaroid photos from the warehouse of a well-known antiquities middleman, who admitted the sculpture had been looted from ruins in Italy. <a href="http://bit.ly/mtKFgU"><strong>Click here to see those Polaroids.</strong></a>

'Chasing Aphrodite' And Other Dirty Art World Deals

In their new book, Chasing Aphrodite, journalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino tell the story of dozens of illicitly acquired antiquities at one of the world's wealthiest museums. The J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles ended up returning 40 looted objects — including the goddess of love.

<em>Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me</em>, the first book on Handler's new imprint for Grand Central Publishing, was released this month.

Chelsea Handler: Keys To A Multimedia Empire

From her late-night talk show on E! television to her best-selling memoirs Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang and Are You There, Vodka? It's Me Chelsea to her brand-new publishing imprint, Chelsea Handler has created a brand that larger audiences are starting to trust.

Smoke rises after explosions were heard from the direction of a Russian military airbase near Novofedorivka, Crimea, in this still image obtained by Reuters Tuesday.

Who was behind the explosions in Crimea? Ukraine and Russia aren't saying

Several days after Ukraine said nine planes were destroyed at a Russian air base in Crimea, nobody has publicly claimed responsibility for it — but speculation abounds.

Hear a mix of the month's best electronic tunes, including new music from Robert Hood, Seven Davis Jr, Malory and more.

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