Choi fled to freedom in South Korea, where he has managed to turn his frightening experiences int...
MULANJE — With her sweet smile and schoolgirl backpack, Awa Kandaya, 20, seems to be the picture of innocence. But it's just a facade. Her virginity was taken away from her at the age of nine when ...
-OpEd- BOGOTÁ — Father Jorge, dear Pope Francis, less than a month remains before your visit to Colombia. Before Sept. 6, you still have time to make your excuses and cancel. Believe me, you ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — "Stray bullets invading Rio's schools." "Under threat, schools are closing." "Students injured in shooting." These were titles of articles published by Folha de S. Paulo, ...
It's taken a few days to accept, but Cuba's less-than-ideal WiFi situation may be a bless...
Marketing firms are embracing a strategy called "femvertising" to challenge the sexist gender mol...
Europol is adding a whiff of summer holiday fun to its hunt for hardened criminals. On its website, Europol (the Europe Union's police agency) has issued 21 original digital “postcards” addressed ...
The boom from Gulf countries is the direct result of a promotional campaign that features halal m...
The record-breaking transfer of the Brazilian superstar to French club PSG is part of much bigger...
-Analysis- There is style, and there is taste. There is also politics. The “style” in question here is the sort that is so often the source of bloody combat in the publishing world: whether to ...
PARIS — A series of major terrorist attacks since 2015 has changed life in France in big and small ways. Now it is about to change training requirements for French medical students. Beginning in ...
Perception (and treatment) of gays and lesbians may be different from transgender people — ...
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...
In Indonesia, the heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot is turning and banging heads. But critics sa...
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 ...
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