Chinese students visiting Chile's universities are eager to learn Spanish but reluctant to ad...
PARIS — European history has shown, time and again, that anti-Semitism is an indicator that the social state has become unstable. It’s therefore not shocking that it’s developing today in France, ...
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 ...
"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 ...
As the Japanese government plans to accept up to about 340,000 new foreign workers over the next ...
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 ...
Zeina Nassar is already a national featherweight champion. But to reach greater heights, she'...
UNICEF marks the International Day against the Use of Child Soldiers on Feb. 12. Also known as Red Hand Day, it calls for urgent action to end the recruitment of children by armed groups. Youth ...
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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 ...
We know that children's books educate, shape, socialize. And yes, according to a new study ba...
Port Grimaud, near Saint-Tropez in southern France, has it all. Canals, bridges, islets ... It's just missing a couple of ...
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...
Many women in Munich were active in the resistance against the Nazis, but hardly anyone knows the...
-Essay- The Moon’s cultural history is one of disenchantment. Thousands of years ago, people still believed that it was a deity, there were legends about beautiful Moon girls and a man in 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...
Facing severe social competition, China's youngsters are under increasing academic pressure. ...
WASHINGTON — If you ever want to fly to America from Charles de Gaulle Airport, be sure that you are not landing in terminal 2F, as you might miss your flight, or even get arrested before reaching ...
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