The complete online text of The Survivor by E. Phillips Oppenheim.

While William LeQueux was the father of the espionage novel, E. Phillips Oppenheim made the genre his own. Like LeQueux, Edgar Wallace, and many other mystery novelists of his generation, E. Phillips Oppenheim was a prolific writer. The author of more th...

The Israeli government will revise a widely criticized plan to grant needy Holocaust survivors a monthly stipend of $20 (euro15), officials said Friday, after survivors said the plan was laughable.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the plan this week in response to concern about poverty...

The Israeli government will revise a widely criticized plan to grant needy Holocaust survivors a monthly stipend of $20, officials said Friday, after survivors said the plan was laughable.Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced the plan this week in response to concern about poverty among...

An overloaded wooden boat sank in high waves off Cameroon's coast, killing at least 63 people, a government official said Monday. Fifteen passengers were believed to have survived, but at least 20 were missing and feared dead.The boat, which was sailing along the coast to...

Scores of migrants who spent days at sea were missing and feared dead Sunday after their boat wrecked off Senegal's coast, the Red Cross said.About 150 people were believed to have been on the small wooden boat, two dozen of whom were rescued by fishermen...