The "brand" of Il Duce is doing particularly well on Facebook and Instagram.
Jeanne d'Arc Girubuntu, a 22-year-old cycling champion, strives to be a role model and to ins...
PARIS — As the editor of what we call a “digital magazine,” I must make lots of choices on any given day as the various streams of news — real and fake and often just pointless — criss-cross on my ...
-Essay- PARIS — For a superficial observer, it is one of the lesser-known cultural revolutions and a rather trivial one at that: the dramatic shift in the Western physical ideal, in just over a ...
SpongeBOZZ's new album quickly shot up the German hip-hop charts, but his irreverence is tell...
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...
"I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings." These wise words were written by American ...
-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...
-Analysis- Hamburg is a sleepy place most days. When the G20 isn’t in town, the port city churns with the comings and goings of large, steel barges in its spacious harbor. To the millions of ...
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...
Though brother fights brother on opposite sides of the war in eastern Ukraine, some people manage...
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...
PARIS - Notre-Dame Cathedral continues to draw millions in the center of Paris. But how long before it starts to collapse? For now, at least, France's most famous cathedral still stands tall ...
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 ...
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