LONDON: Diana Athill, a writer and editor who honed the work of novelists including John Updike and Margaret Atwood before finding late-life fame...
LONDON: Diana Athill, a writer and editor who honed the work of novelists including John Updike and Margaret Atwood before finding late-life fame...
ATHENS: Greece's government has taken 2,330 archaeological sites, monuments and museums out of a state assets fund, after protests by Greeks who feared...
Beijing: At a gated community for Chinese senior citizens, retired military personnel, film-makers and top university professors settle into a new routine: ballet...
Paris: Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri took Christian Dior to the circus Monday with arguably her most sublimely balanced collection for the Paris...
PARIS: Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris and pretender to the defunct French throne, died on Monday - exactly 226 years after his distant...
Rio de Janeiro: Police and soldiers are being deployed in large numbers to Brazil's northeast to fight a wave of gang violence fueled...
Accra: Veteran artist Ablade Glover measures spaces on a canvas with a palette knife, then dabs on vibrant blue paint while the morning...
BAGHDAD: An Iraqi archaeologist, who lent her expertise to rebuilding the National Museum's collection after it was looted in 2003, has died at...
NEW YORK: Nathan Glazer, a prominent sociologist and public intellectual who assisted on a classic study of conformity, "The Lonely Crowd," and co-authored...
Blackpool, United Kingdom: In January, thousands of pigeon fanciers flock to the seaside resort of Blackpool where the fastest and most beautiful pigeons...
Pullach im Isartal, Germany, Harold Voit takes out his wallet, extracts a wad of 50-euro bills and gazes at it calmly as the...
NEW YORK: Mary Oliver, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose rapturous odes to nature and animal life brought her critical acclaim and popular affection,...
Tokyo: Tokyo is trying to verify if a drawing of a rat holding an umbrella that has been sprayed near a monorail station...
LONDON: The world's first television channel dedicated to human rights was launched in London on Tuesday with a promise to deliver hidden stories...
When was the last time scrolling through Instagram made you feel better? If you're like me, the puppy photos on your feed momentarily...
Gillette made a risky bet with a new ad referencing the #metoo movement and questions around "toxic masculinity.” If the intention was to...
BEIRUT: The future of Kurdish-led swathes of northern and eastern Syria has been thrown into doubt by President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw...
SAN FRANCISCO: More than 90% of the children of millionaire families in the US want to inherit their parents’ values more than their...
