From Rwanda to South Africa, examples abound of countries ending conflicts by boosting women'...
BEIJING — A video is making the rounds across China's internet. On a bus in the western city of Xi'an, an elderly man is seen shouting at a pregnant woman that she should give up her seat. "I am ...
CAIRO — A friend of mine lived alone in downtown Cairo. She was single when she moved in but after getting into a relationship, her boyfriend joined her. One day in 2012, her neighbors saw her ...
Latin Americans call it the Movimiento Gordo, accepting weight differences as a way to resist a m...
Amazon is upending the commercial status quo. And yet, as much as people like to complain about i...
The number of children studying in English in India increased 273% between 2003 and 2011. But the...
Easing pain and "old-fashioned" home care, rather than intensive hospitalization, are proving the...
BEIJING — Fan Bingbing, China's highest-paid actress and star of the 2014 blockbuster X-Men, recently received some unwanted public attention—an accusation of tax evasion. The Chinese actress was ...
Blame for the failure to take legislative responsibility for LGBT rights must be squarely divided...
Proposed changes to the trilateral trade accord could scare off investors, hurt Mexican automaker...
Chairs have been removed from the cafeteria in a high school in Henan Province. The reason: save ...
The Argentine pontiff, used to navigating politics in Buenos Aires, is battling at a whole differ...
In his most recent book, best-selling author Paulo Coelho revisits his nomadic past, when he emba...
BEIJING — It's that time of a year again when an ever growing number of Chinese students are leaving to study abroad. These young people attract a lot of attention, often envied by their peers ...
BUENOS AIRES — Facebook irritates me, entertains, consoles, bores and infuriates me, moves and depresses me — but above all, it exhausts me. Rewind to 2008, and I am in Pittsburgh working in a ...
"Alternative" sexuality is despised in the traditionalist, native or Afro-Caribbean communities o...
Avant-garde art projected itself through provocation in the 20th century, but has provocation sim...
MONTREAL — The video lasted just seven seconds, but it was enough to unleash a fury of online outrage. “They could have chosen anyone else to make an ad,” one Facebook user wrote. “Things start to ...
MUNICH — From a digital point of view, the Norwegian Erik Nissen Johansen is at the forefront: Even his cat has Instagram. No wonder then that the hotel designer also pays attention to Instagram ...
The President's former lawyer pleads guilty on the same day his former campaign chairman is c...
Lawyers representing students in several U.S. states are making the case that the right to litera...
Campers don't visit Mrzeżyno, on the Baltic Sea, to sing "Kumbaya" and eat s'mores. ...
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