Post-modern design captures our cultural moment's yearning for unique and inspiring objects, ...
These informal banks in Kenya help women acquire financial stability, to help them take control o...
-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...
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, ...
Fathers who took parental leave spend an hour and a half more with their children every day durin...
-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...
-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 ...
Older LGBT people have lived to see dramatic improvements in how society treats sexual minorities...
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 ...
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 ...
Many people think that to get ahead in the business world, women need to emulate men. But there&#...
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...
In rural Kenya, the Waata people were displaced by the creation of a national park. But a sustain...
There's something strangely familiar about the 99 images on display at the Abadía Art ...
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.
Nemesis of Italy's anti-immigrant Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, Mayor Domenico Lucano of ...
Etienne Mallard has spent a lifetime venturing far and wide. A retired high-school philosophy teacher, he has always considered himself nothing more or less than an amateur photographer — with ...
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