On Aug. 24, 1944, the first French and U.S. armored tanks entered Paris, after a week of intense fighting with German soldiers — effectively freeing the capital from Nazi occupation. The ...
Hany Rashed's Facebook-based Baba Museum displays personal objects of dead people and plays with ...
Adults have a lot of leeway when it comes to raising kids. But that doesn't mean their power shou...
NEW DELHI — Mangesh and Aarti loved each other. Both belonged to the same village, professed the same religion, had the same cultural heritage. Their class and status in society did not differ ...
Svolvaer is one of the first scenic stops upon entering the famous Lofoten archipelago of northern Norway. The fishing village, with its typical wooden red houses, offers a nice warmup to the ...
There are countless reasons for becoming a writer or a poet, but thankfully very few that we coul...
Air travel is booming despite the current climate debate. But vacationers have to rethink their s...
Personal privacy seems to be fleeting in a world where technology is constantly advancing — and it's no accident: Around the globe, authorities are creating new ways to collect information ...
For a moment, the streets of Sibiu turned into a fashion show — and that woman didn't seem too convinced by the man's dress sense ... Was it the traditional căciulă sheepskin hat, or something ...
This coming August will mark 20 years since the death of Jaime Garzón, an unlikely martyr in Colombia's long-running battles with organized crime, drug trafficking and government corruption. ...
There are millions of people who travel every year. But for some, exotic cultural exploration can...
Burk Uzzle's image of loving (and muddy) couple at Woodstock has become a symbol for the 1960s ho...
A lot of the current debate surrounding the world of work is about figuring who will get the job in the future: machines or humans? We have covered it before, and we will continue covering it. But ...
The future of architecture is here: the studio MVRDV in Rotterdam is one of the most daring in th...
Trying to track down the source of what seems like a rodent explosion in the Argentine capital. A...
The "Five Wells Square" in the old Croatian city of Zadar is not a misnomer: For some reason, I could only squeeze four of them in that shot. Oh, ...
Nothing's wrong with praying for an illness to go away. Just don't count on it...
Brazilian President Bolsonaro is wrong to think rainforest destruction is purely an internal matt...
A derivative of the Bauhaus revolution, the Isokon building brought modernity, and affordable ren...
Squabbling online isn't the only way to connect with the world.
These wrinkly clay busts were sitting in the backyard of a Sardinian sculptor's workshop. With the sun on their grimacing faces, this felt like the right image to share today as temperatures broke ...
The Italian writer's work is best known for his role recounting the horror of concentration camps...
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