GENEVA — There are those few rare researchers through the ages so devoted to science that they have used their own bodies as a laboratory for their experiments. After inventing the hallucinogenic ...
-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 ...
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 ...
Jeanne d'Arc Girubuntu, a 22-year-old cycling champion, strives to be a role model and to ins...
PARIS — As the editor of what we call a “digital magazine,” I must make lots of choices on any given day as the various streams of news — real and fake and often just pointless — criss-cross on my ...
-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...
In Indonesia, the heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot is turning and banging heads. But critics sa...
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 ...
-OpEd- BEIJING — Many Chinese films are awful. Who is to blame for this objective fact? An audience typically praises a film when they think it’s good and complain when it isn’t. Yet Feng ...
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 ...
BEIJING — Dream or nightmare? Chinese moviegoers will now see for themselves. Starting July 1, the anniversary the Chinese Communist Party, and through its 19th national congress in the fall, ...
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 ...
Ever wondered what's the French for "Slytherin"? Or how Harry Potter's voice sound in Hindi, or Hebrew? To celebrate 20 years since the J.K. Rowling's first installment of the series hit ...
“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 ...
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