culture / society
Switzerland
Sounds Of The City: Why Urban Acoustics Matter
In Switzerland, some local governments are turning to sound specialists to make cityscapes easier...
China
LGBT In China, Victims Of Brutal "Conversion Therapy" Industry
From shock therapy treatment to nausea pills to fake marriages, Chinese gays, lesbian and transge...
Argentina
First 'Catcalling Case' Goes To Court In Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES — Lucía Cabrera was as frightened as she was annoyed. The 25-year-old physical education student had dealt with catcalling before. But in this case, the taxi driver hollering comments ...
Israel
The Humble Power Of Interfaith Soccer In Jerusalem's Old City
JERUSALEM — In front of Zion Gate in the heart of the Old City of Jerusalem, just a short walk from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, lies a soccer pitch. Standing on the field, nestled beside an ...
Colombia
Colombian Ad Campaign With Gay Couple Sparks Uproar
BOGOTÁ –– Bancolombia, one of Colombia's big banks, portrayed a gay couple as its customers in a recent advertisement. While some have welcomed it as a bold and inclusive move, others weren't as ...
France
Macron's Hardest Job: France's Dangerous Class Divide
Nationalism was defeated in Emmanuel Macron's victory. But the debate of the individual vs. c...
Spain
That Awful Timelessness Of Picasso's Guernica
Sadly, the wall-sized master work says as much about the world's current horrors as it did ab...
China
Free Fight Or Tai Chi? Ancient Dispute Settled In 20 Seconds
A decades-old argument might just have been settled: Modern "mixed martial arts" fighter vs. Tai Chi master — who wins?" In a recently filmed fight, Xu Xiaodong, a Beijing-based mixed martial ...
China
Chinese Movie Industry Tries To Kick "Hollywood Dependency"
BEIJING — At the just concluded Beijing International Film Festival, the hottest feature on the bill was the business battle between Chinese and American film industries. The Fate of the Furious, ...
Brazil
Brazil's Gay Soccer Team Making The Game Beautiful For All
SÃO PAULO — In the nearly two years since it was formed, Unicorns FC, an amateur soccer team in São Paulo made up exclusively of LGBT players, only recorded one crisis: when a player, disappointed ...
Japan
Preserving Japanese Artifacts, One 3D-Printed Replica At A Time
CHIBA — Researchers are collecting 3D data of Buddhist statues and other cultural assets at a university here on the eastern outskirts of Tokyo in order to store the stereoscopic information in ...
United Arab Emirates
A Woman's Perspective On Divorce In The Arab World
More and more people in Muslim-majority countries are opting out of their marriages. And often it...
Denmark
Greenland, Victim Of Denmark's Linguistic Colonialism
COPENHAGEN — In the picturesque Danish capital, it's easy to overlook the men lying on public benches with a beer in hand, or assume they're immigrants from Southern Europe. Listen carefully, ...
Morocco
Iconic French Street Art "Invaders" Land In North Africa
MARRAKESH — It is a 21st-century Parisian experience par excellence: You turn a cobblestone corner or exit some quaint square and come face-to-face with a small, tiled alien critter pasted on the ...
Colombia
New FARC Soccer Club Aims To Ease Colombian Guerrillas Into Society
A Colombian NGO is hoping football could turn former communist guerrillas into peaceful citizens ...
Colombia
When A Former Hitman For Pablo Escobar Gets VIP Treatment
When El Espectador's Aldo Cívico spots a former henchman of the Medellin drug cartel i...
Argentina
All Dating Is Speed Dating In The Digital Age
Love, jealousy and courtship have become impatient, high-speed activities that play out on our co...
Sri Lanka
A Sri Lankan Mission To Save Endangered Elephants
Deforestation, poaching and civil war have had a devastating impact on Sri Lanka’s elephant...
France
France's Future, Rural Heartland Struggles To Reinvent Itself
Ahead of the high stakes of next week's French presidential election, a visit to "la France p...
Colombia
Greenpeace Sea Patrol, Sailing On The Rainbow Warrior
As the Rainbow Warrior III traverses the Strait of Magellan, its crew shows what it means to defe...
Germany
Adidas Revisited, How A Pair Of Sneakers Made A Speedy Comeback
MUNICH — It had to be this shoe. No other model could have achieved this revival. A sneaker invented 48 years ago and had since slipped into oblivion has now been resurrected. It's the Adidas ...
Brazil
A Motel Room Inspired By Brazil's Anti-Corruption Probe
BRASILIA — There's always something a bit risqué about Brazil's many short-stay "motels," where couples can pay by the hour and aren't all that concerned, usually, with getting a good night's ...
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