On the unpaved roads of inland Indonesia, this worker was relying on the strength of his water buffalo to bring building materials to a construction site. A couple of days later on the same trip, ...
Greta Thunberg tapped into an growing area of scholarship when she wrote recently that to save th...
It may seem like a pipe dream. And it would certainly cost a lot, especially in a large capital c...
Like the entire story of his life, Nelson Mandela's release from Victor Verster Prison exactly 30 years ago helped define the 20th century. Having served 27 years for leading the opposition to ...
I had to be quick to snap a photo of this little fellow in Banff National Park in the Canadian Rockies, before it dashed back into its burrow. I'd always assumed it was a groundhog, like those I'm ...
It's now been a century since the brilliant, Italian-born artist passed away in Paris, France at ...
CHENNAI — Twenty-six-year-old Arivu's small room, on the fourth-floor terrace of an apartment in suburban Chennai, is as lively as his music. It is in this room that Arivu shot his now iconic ...
With automated electronic surveillance systems, suspicion does not precede data collection but is...
Modern languages are rich, beautiful and complex, and took ages to develop. Hearts and smiley fac...
It is the most delicate of roles right now, as Father Georg continues to serve his original boss,...
Ephroim "Johnny" Jablon's entire family was gassed to death. At 94, he can't forget the smells an...
Fariba Adelkhah, a French-Iranian expert on Shia society, has critics on all sides. Since June, s...
Environmentalists and beer companies have common cause to oppose new tax rules that may reduce th...
When people die, they should be able to dispose of their corpses in a way that nourishes the plan...
A pair of French architects are bringing new attention to a unique, underground section of the Ch...
Locals are pushing back against plans to build a five-star hotel that would throw grape-killing s...
The red-brick Gothic castle on the Lithuanian island of Trakai looks like it's straight out of a fairy tale. However the spell was broken when a full garrison of soldiers made their rowdy entrance ...
-OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Is there a relation between women and the environment? Is it necessary to view environmental policies through female eyes? Is there is a difference in the male and female ...
The legendary composer — just 13 at the time — left Austria exactly 250 years ago for a l...
Men do not do their fair share of housework and childcare. And companies still discriminate again...
Fourteen months ago the progressive mayor of Riace, in Calabria, was arrested. Soon after, many o...
A Chilean startup develops an application to take office workers into a meditative 'happy space' ...
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