Standing under an enormous olive tree, José Pedro Oliveira gently caresses its gnarled trunk. “It is more than one thousand years ... benefited a small group of big companies and foreign ...

Their twisted forms provide cool, shaded spots in the heat of the day—and when you’re cold-blooded, that’s a big deal. But it’s not just the tree itself. The typical olive grove comes with ...

Picture: Warren Little/Getty Images Which is why whatever happened under Augusta’s Big Oak Tree (yes ... It’s an olive branch, but a very small one likely to reward just one player.

Nasser Khalil Radaydeh, from al-Ubeidiya in the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem ... to a remote area where they tied them to an olive tree. One of their cousins tried to intervene but ...

Bethlehem workshops where carvers toil over small pieces of olive wood sit empty these days ... “It will be damaging to every business in the West Bank.” One of Giacaman’s wooden crosses has ended up ...

Estella Garcia Cantu can laughingly admit she is just as obsessed with "The Miracle Tree" in her mother's yard as her mother.