When a freshly inaugurated Donald Trump issued his infamous travel ban exactly one year ago, the message was clear, not only to Muslims but to the entire world, that the United States was suddenly ...
ROCKVILLE — Her mom always smiled — except when the family made its annual summer drive to visit the grandparents in Magnolia, Arkansas. "The smiles were gone while we were traveling," said Gloria ...
RIO DE JANEIRO — Every night at around 9 o’clock, Fabiana Escobar sits down in front of the TV and watches her life play out on the small screen: whether the police haul her away or her husband ...
BEIJING — Over the past decade or so, “The Low-Fertility Trap,” a hypothesis put forth by Wolfgang Lutz, Vegard Skirbekk and Maria Rita Testa, respectively Austrian, Norwegian and Italian ...
Already a victim of organized crime and drug trafficking, Naples is now also facing wanton violen...
The war in Syria has transformed the place women hold in the workforce, providing opportunities p...
FORT POLK — In training exercises in a mock Afghan village constructed here on a base amid swampland, the U.S. Army is applying the military lesson of the war against the Islamic State in Syria ...
GENEVA — His video, “I'm testing a blackhead vacuum,” has more than 200,000 views. The one entitled, “Baldness: my hair transplant” has been seen at least 440,000 times. But his bestseller remains ...
Colombian cultural officials have been busy trying to recover an ancient burial treasure displaye...
-OpEd- Over the past week or so, it’s been hard not to feel disoriented by what is constantly being thrown at us, in this hyperconnected planet of ours, and not to get the feeling from our ...
Egypt's St. Catherine's Monastery holds a treasure trove of ancient texts. But spectral i...
The historian and sociologist Georges Vigarello recounts the evolution of the dress, which tells ...
Safe from the disapproving eyes of their families, women writers gather secretly in Jalalabad to ...
Lai Wei'e wants to stay by the side her Chinese human rights advocate husband, Liu Yao, who w...
-Analysis- PARIS — Compete, don’t kill. The idea that peace might be achieved through sporting is an old paradox. Pitting athletes and countries against each other in a non-lethal — and ...
CHENNAI — In Murugavel Janakiraman’s office, his daughter's drawings are pinned up next to family photographs. He proudly points out his children, Arjun and Anisha, his mother, who lives with ...
NEW DELHI — Farooque was a Kashmiri. He hated India. His cousin was killed by security forces at a demonstration in Srinagar. This was 1990. We were classmates, and I always took him head on for ...
An experimental television show on France's Canal+ relies more on sounds than images to scare...
Delving into the meaning of the decline of Aracataca, the birthplace of Colombian master and Nobe...
For the entire time that I was in the Caribbean on vacation, I was convinced I had lymphoma.
GENEVA — “What are you doing for New Year’s Eve?” A simple question that comes up in December, but is enough to make some people break into a cold sweat. “For years, New Year’s Eve has given me ...
OneShot — A young girl on the beach, 2013 (©Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow ...