The BJP wants to turn back to clock by imposing Hindi on south and northeastern India and elimina...
Young people especially are turning their backs on France's broadcast networks in favor of Americ...
The fauna and flora of South Africa rank among the most impressive I've seen anywhere in the world. Near Durban in the east of the country, I caught them both on vivid display, as a tree filled ...
Global warming may eventually force Homo sapiens to again seek cover from the elements. A global ...
On a recent trip to Sicily, Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua was reminded of the Mediterranean's s...
Recent studies from a French laboratory of linguistics reveal surprising aspects of human languag...
Loneliness, sex and economics rule among aging singles in the Chinese capital.
Climate change activists have condemned the outsized environmental impact of the razzle dazzle ev...
Hotels are changing their design to reflect the style of modern travelers. A key component now is...
The Mahatma's universalism is far from Modi sectarian-nationalist approach. But it's more than ju...
The U.S. president's abrupt decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria was short-lived. But ...
PARIS — In 1919, the International Labor Organization adopted the first conventions on women in the workplace. In 2019, the women who won the World Cup earned $850,000 less than their male ...
Researchers have identified more than 30 different languages in the South American country, 15 of...
Some of the world's most insular places are cut off by land, not water.
The government recently gave foreigners the go-ahead to visit 137 peaks in four states, paving th...
VAL D'ARAN — It wasn't until I'd made may way clear through to other side of the village that I finally crossed paths with another human: A man about my age returning from a walk in the hills ...
It was autumn, 1939. Germany had just invaded Poland. France had not yet fallen. Mussolini was Hitler's ally on paper, but had not yet mobilized troops. And the United States wouldn't enter the ...
Warmer temperatures and plastic waste lying about reminded an expedition to Svalbard that no part...
My clearest camel memory from this same trip to Turkey 30 years ago was witnessing the millennia-old tradition of camel wrestling. Just a few miles down the road, near the Ancient Greek site of ...
Schools still make a point of teaching students to write the old-fashioned way. And in France, ki...
The world-renowned Brazilian novelist was one of thousands jailed and tortured during the militar...
Amateur fashion aficionados are using new technology to celebrate the pre-internet past, and forc...
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