Argentina's Antarctic bases are staffed by isolated and often young scientists confined in cl...
The outpouring of rage and resentment that erupted in last weekend’s “yellow vest” demonstrations in Paris made headlines around the world. In far-flung Chile, which has had plenty of its own ...
The referenda that rejected marriage equality in Taiwan last month was not only a huge blow to the country’s LGBT community, but also a political setback to the ruling Democratic Progressive Party ...
Given the harm mobsters like Pablo Escobar inflicted on Colombia's image and society, how hav...
WASHINGTON — I loved Amazon when it first appeared. It was the 1990s, and I was living in Italy and then China, two countries that are strongly monolingual with a scarce number of foreign-language ...
PARIS — Suspected of hacking a dissident into pieces in its consulate in Istanbul, the Saudi regime has become the target of public outrage — until the story dies down, at least. Which raises an ...
A Bogota lawyer's foray into the world of online dating opened her eyes to "Tinder-surfing" &...
For the series "Cook Me," journalist Elvire von Bardeleben shared a table with Marianne Lecerf an...
This is a story about love, hate and Mark Twain. The object of Twain's desire (then resentment): the typewriter. Twain first laid eyes on a "newfangled typing machine," as he called it, ...
Engineers in Antioquia decided to cross-reference data on solar radiation and cloud cover to enco...
Against the omnipotence of "reality-show novels" and costume fiction, a group of young French aut...
Post-modern design captures our cultural moment's yearning for unique and inspiring objects, ...
-OpEd- BERLIN — Thousands of students marched through Tehran last weekend, and state television broadcast the protest march live. The crowd burned U.S. flags and pictures of President Donald ...
The main open dump in the Colombian city evolved over decades from an informal home to scavengers...
America's midterm elections saw Democrats recapture the House, but lose ground in the Senate....
BEIJING — These days, it is not rare to bump into blond, slim, pretty teenage girls on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The majority of them, typically between 16 and 22 years old, ...
-Analysis- BERLIN — Democracies are made of constant ups and downs. Sometimes one party is on top, the next it's another. And what may look like a dramatic election result often is, in reality, ...
The tendency of politicians in Latin America (and beyond) to cite Christ in their speeches may in...
Whether you're a bento devotee, daily cafeteria goer or three-martini luncher, you are being ...
-Essay- PARIS — I shall spare my readers today a highfalutin reflection on the obsolescence of the French Fifth Republic, evolutions in Romanian culture or the worldwide rise of the extreme ...
CAIRO — “Wednesday isn’t blue?” Ayman looked at me like I’d gone mad. “Ok, what about your name. Isn’t it sort of reddish?” “Have you lost it?” he replied with a snort, sure I was ...
Last year, the Nepalese government outlawed the chhaupadi tradition that bans certain activities ...
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