SEATTLE: Every month, business coach Maggie Karshner makes three rent payments: one for her apartment, another for her office and the third to...
SEATTLE: Every month, business coach Maggie Karshner makes three rent payments: one for her apartment, another for her office and the third to...
STOCKHOLM: Economists Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer won the 2019 Nobel Economics Prize for their work in fighting global poverty, the...
CHAMPS-SUR-MARNE, France: The golden angel once glimmered majestically from Notre Dame's vault. Now, with a broken nose, chipped gold-leaf and a smashed bust,...
Hanoi: Best known as a historic pastime among Europe's upper crust, croquet has found an unlikely fan base among Vietnamese retirees eager to...
Vienna: Austrian Peter Handke, one of the most original German-language writers alive, once used his famously sharp tongue to call for the Nobel...
Stockholm: Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk on Thursday won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature, which was delayed over a sexual harassment scandal, while...
ITAITUBA, Brazil: Cattle breeders, indigenous teachers and loggers are among the more than 20 million people living in the Amazon in northern Brazil,...
La Paz: Bolivia´s "Death Road" might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels. The world´s most dangerous road spirals...
Inside, the rich spent millions on art and fine drinks. Outside, tear gas filled the streets, as an anxious Hong Kong was again...
Kabul: Afghanistan's war cost 13-year-old shoe shiner Hameedullah his education. Poverty forced Sabir, 11, to flee home and sell dried fruits on Kabul's...
London: In what is billed as an "extremely silly" event, hordes of Monty Python fans will gather in full Gumby attire in London...
LONDON: A large Banksy painting depicting primates sitting in Britain's parliament sold for more than $12 million on Thursday, a record price at...
LONDON: "The ladies are about to storm the men's loos", said British actor Joanna Lumley in an appeal to increase the number of...
Nearly 1,700 priests and other clergy members that the Roman Catholic Church considers credibly accused of child sexual abuse are living under the...
Stockholm: Experts are cautious, but bookies are tipping teenage climate campaigner Greta Thunberg for the Nobel Peace Prize next week, while two literature...
Madrid: More than 500 years ago, they faced a bleak choice: convert to Catholicism or be burned at the stake. The only other...
Moscow: In cropped jeans and a cream sweatshirt, Alina Muzychenko would easily blend into a central Moscow crowd. But her bright pink socks...
LONDON: A new exhibition opens in London on Tuesday, seeking to overturn the popular stereotype of women who have survived modern slavery as...
