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 ...
Residents of Sadhan village have a different story to tell
DANTEWADA — Three times a day, Bharthi fetches grain and water in clean aluminum buckets to feed her black chickens. She unlocks the grilled doors of the rectangular cage, which at around 20ft ...
Colombian novelist Héctor Abad Faciolince recounts how a man in Denmark claimed to have li...
Scientists and Tibetan Buddhists gathered in Gangtok, India earlier this month for an unlikely me...
Four years ago, then president Adly Mansour made sexual harassment a criminal offense. And yet, w...
In rural Kenya, the Waata people were displaced by the creation of a national park. But a sustain...
NEW DELHI — A year after the Harvey Weinstein story first broke, India's own #MeToo movement is finally taking off. Working women are coming forward on social media with stories and details of ...
Co-working centers with free childcare offer a lifeline to the business women of Moscow.
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