Many are up in arms after UNESCO granted a small Japanese island World Heritage Site status in June. On face value, Okinoshima Island, home to a 17th-century Shinto shrine, is a worthy World ...
Guédelon, an attraction in Burgundy, recreates the Middle Ages in a way that aims to make ...
The "brand" of Il Duce is doing particularly well on Facebook and Instagram.
Jeanne d'Arc Girubuntu, a 22-year-old cycling champion, strives to be a role model and to ins...
-Essay- PARIS — For a superficial observer, it is one of the lesser-known cultural revolutions and a rather trivial one at that: the dramatic shift in the Western physical ideal, in just over a ...
High ticket prices and fancy stadiums are making the games of the national pastime off-limits for...
SpongeBOZZ's new album quickly shot up the German hip-hop charts, but his irreverence is tell...
-Essay- TAIPEI — I still recall the long journey I made in 1987 during my first visit in China, traveling in crammed buses with the smells of caged poultry on board. Through Guangzhou in ...
César Pelli has designed some of the world's best known skyscrapers. But he writes tha...
Government crime numbers show that since 2001, more than 2,000 "witches" — most of them wom...
Nice Matin, July 13, 2017 This year's Bastille Day celebrations will have special meaning in Nice, as the southern French city commemorates the first anniversary of the July 14, 2016 attack ...
"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings." These wise words were written by American ...
Such disreputable figures as Lance Armstrong and John Galliano, Bashar al-Assad and Manuel Norieg...
The pay is good. And much of the work is automated. But life at the isolated Gahcho Kué di...
MUMBAI — Afreen Rehman, 28, is one of five Muslim women who recently took her case to India's Supreme Court demanding a ban on a controversial practice known as "Triple Talaq," or instant ...
-Analysis- Hamburg is a sleepy place most days. When the G20 isn’t in town, the port city churns with the comings and goings of large, steel barges in its spacious harbor. To the millions of ...
Hand Spinner Mag, July 2017 PARIS — Fidget spinners — or as they're called here, "hand spinners" — have made it to France. Originally created for medical purposes, to help autistic ...
In spite of the thousands of miles and cultural distances between Colombia and Japan, Gabriel Gar...
As Germany legalizes gay marriage and Ana Brnabic becomes Serbia's prime minister, Worldcrunch celebrates openly gay heads of government around the world. Take 5 — LGBT Leaders Around The ...
Though brother fights brother on opposite sides of the war in eastern Ukraine, some people manage...
“The boy who lived” turns 20 years old today. Harry Potter, the turn-of-the-century literary sensation, topped bestseller lists and broke box office records across the globe, featuring seven book ...
A project that encourages villagers to protect local river sources is helping revive community li...
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