In Indonesia, the heavy metal band Voice of Baceprot is turning and banging heads. But critics sa...
César Pelli has designed some of the world's best known skyscrapers. But he writes tha...
Government crime numbers show that since 2001, more than 2,000 "witches" — most of them wom...
Nice Matin, July 13, 2017 This year's Bastille Day celebrations will have special meaning in Nice, as the southern French city commemorates the first anniversary of the July 14, 2016 attack ...
-OpEd- BEIJING — Many Chinese films are awful. Who is to blame for this objective fact? An audience typically praises a film when they think it’s good and complain when it isn’t. Yet Feng ...
Such disreputable figures as Lance Armstrong and John Galliano, Bashar al-Assad and Manuel Norieg...
The pay is good. And much of the work is automated. But life at the isolated Gahcho Kué di...
MUMBAI — Afreen Rehman, 28, is one of five Muslim women who recently took her case to India's Supreme Court demanding a ban on a controversial practice known as "Triple Talaq," or instant ...
BEIJING — Dream or nightmare? Chinese moviegoers will now see for themselves. Starting July 1, the anniversary the Chinese Communist Party, and through its 19th national congress in the fall, ...
Hand Spinner Mag, July 2017 PARIS — Fidget spinners — or as they're called here, "hand spinners" — have made it to France. Originally created for medical purposes, to help autistic ...
In spite of the thousands of miles and cultural distances between Colombia and Japan, Gabriel Gar...
As Germany legalizes gay marriage and Ana Brnabic becomes Serbia's prime minister, Worldcrunch celebrates openly gay heads of government around the world. Take 5 — LGBT Leaders Around The ...
Ever wondered what's the French for "Slytherin"? Or how Harry Potter's voice sound in Hindi, or Hebrew? To celebrate 20 years since the J.K. Rowling's first installment of the series hit ...
“The boy who lived” turns 20 years old today. Harry Potter, the turn-of-the-century literary sensation, topped bestseller lists and broke box office records across the globe, featuring seven book ...
A project that encourages villagers to protect local river sources is helping revive community li...
A current exhibition at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires isn't just about rem...
KABUL — When a series of terrorist attacks rocked the Afghan capital late last month, killing more than 150, less than a kilometer away from worst blast, a group of women were busy preparing a ...
Russia, Iran and U.S. are all looking beyond the defeat of ISIS in Syria. But the little game the...
Despacito, by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, is 2017’s runaway worldwide hit. Muy bien! It follows a long, though not-so-frequent history of non-English songs breaking down language barriers ...
A tiny revolution can be heard rumbling through Spain: starting June 30, parents will have the ab...
A pulsing, hazy world comes to life every night in Brazil's largest city, as drug traffickers...
PARIS — Every day, tourists in the Louvre crowd around the Venus de Milo. The two-meter high armless marble lady is one of the museum’s most renowned pieces of art. But the statue, recovered by a ...
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