An art exhibition in Dubai depicts an alternative story of the Middle East, using oil as a starti...
La Paz's airport delivers on its name: El Alto is indeed the highest international airport in the world. Luckily neither my wife Claudine (pictured here in the foreground) nor I suffered from ...
Two centuries ago, widows were sometimes strapped to the funeral pyres of their husbands and burn...
"Legendary," "pioneering," "the savior of Chanel," "fashion icon..." Superlatives abound in international headlines as news outlets take a moment to pay homage to the German-born designer Karl ...
Included in a new exhibition in Rosario, Argentina — Che's birthplace — are image...
"I (had) never seen a high-quality image of a wild black leopard come out of Africa," British wildlife photographer Will Burrard-Lucas wrote recently. So he sprung to attention when word arrived ...
Competition is fierce as no fewer than six self-service electric scooter startups vie for control...
Zeina Nassar is already a national featherweight champion. But to reach greater heights, she'...
When War Was Just A Game (© Étienne Mallard) | OneShot Etienne Mallard has spent a lifetime venturing far and wide. A retired high-school philosophy teacher, he has always considered ...
I'm not a religious person. As a philosophy teacher, my go-to thinker was Spinoza, who once wrote that religion was created "to deceive the people and to constrain the minds of men" But I guess ...
Bertrand Piccard's Selfie — © Solar Impulse | OneShot Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg accomplished a feat of aviation that few believed possible: the first Round-The-World flight, ...
We know that children's books educate, shape, socialize. And yes, according to a new study ba...
As life expectancy numbers rise, a growing number of seniors experience kodokushi (lonely death),...
Three years after the end of the one-child policy, China's fertility rates are now falling. T...
MUMBAI — On December 14, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) abruptly terminated its contract with the Indo-Malaysian consortium L&T-Scomi Engineering Bhd to manage the ...
Many women in Munich were active in the resistance against the Nazis, but hardly anyone knows the...
“Why do we want to fit everyone in our narrative of what is civilized?..."
Bioplastic sounds like a welcome eco-alternative to the many plastic products we use daily. But t...
The South American country's economic and political crises have helped usher in the return of...
Facing severe social competition, China's youngsters are under increasing academic pressure. ...
Architects plan to restore one of the Argentine capital's architectural gems, but with new co...
Fruit vendors were a common sight when we drove through Brazil's Minas Gerais state. My wife Claudine didn't have to wait long: It took this woman no longer than three minutes to expertly slice ...
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