Love them or hate them, electric scooters are changing the very ways we think about mobility and ...
The 2019 Cannes film festival will celebrate legendary French actor Alain Delon with an honorary Palme d'Or. At the age of 83, Delon continues to attract a generous dose of controversy for his ...
Should schools add new subjects every year to keep up with the times? Or is their job simply to h...
Child psychiatrist Joseph Knobel Freud, an Argentine-based descendent of Sigmund Freud, says mode...
"In Japan, white is the color of mourning." So wrote Samuel French in his play All the Way Home. Or at least that's the line as I remember it from my high-school theater days. White is also the ...
It is telling that parents in Silicon Valley, who would know, are restricting and even banning screen time for their children. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization has just released a new set ...
The country faces dramatic debt levels among small-scale coffee farmers, as prices fall on world ...
Someone who is terminally ill and wants to die faster does not "commit suicide," says this German...
Caster Semenya's case shows that the sport world must have an open debate about intersexuality, a...
For many teenagers today, the rules and taboos of love have disappeared. They see it as territory...
I found striking cityscapes all around the world, from the feng-shui buildings of Honk Kong to Rio de Janeiro's lush bay and the odd-looking houses of Indonesian villages — but to me there's ...
The "exceptional" eaters are tolerated if it's part of a medical treatment. But when it's based o...
As vast sums are donated to rebuild Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, the same billionaires don't st...
If President López Obrador really wants to give his country peace and security, he'll need...
An iconic image from Italian photojournalist's reportage from Chad, which won the World Press Pho...
A nation became so attached to a nasty word that it has lost some of its edge, but not all of it.
Already known for its agricultural output, the South American country would do well to grow its r...
Unicef France marks World Immunization Week with this OneShot from the Philippines
In Italy, while some agencies put people in touch locally, others help customers find a spouse in...
-Analysis- TOKYO — On May 1, Crown Prince Naruhito will succeed his father, Emperor Akihito, to become the 126th Japanese emperor. The April 1 announcement of the new imperial era's name, ...
Bogged down by months of protests, the embattled French president now faces a new kind of challen...
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