Too many weeks ago an elderly Japanese musical cuckoo clock came in missing its little man. He wears a green hat and his job is to play his zither each hour after the cuckoo show next door. (He’s ...

Today we bring the latest in our ongoing series of animals who laid down their lives (and dignity) for the betterment of gadgets. We've seen a nice beaver, a mouse and a frog. The Cuckoo Clock, ...

This Victorian-era musical fairy tale skews older and darker than its porcelain-looking animation style suggests. A boy born on the coldest day on Earth survives only by the grace of a magical ticker ...

SAINT CLAIR — Frank Buffalino loves cuckoo clocks, but he concedes having 50 tiny wooden birds going off at once is a bit much. “We used to have all our clocks set to the same time,” he recalled, “but ...

MOSCOW — Alexander Rogozhkin’s “The Cuckoo” took main prizes at Russia’s first Golden Eagle film awards but, controversially, foreign-lingo Oscar nomination “House of Fools” by Andrei Konchalovsky ...

The sandstone cliffs surrounding Triberg should have holes in them from which large wooden birds spring each hour, for the town is the heart of Germany’s cuckoo clock industry. Kate Hairsine ...