Helsinki: What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple:...
Helsinki: What do you give the world's most literate country for its 100th birthday? For Finland's politicians and public, the answer was simple:...
YANGON: Myanmar youth activist and television host Thinzar Shun Lei Yi would once have called herself one of Aung San Suu Kyi's greatest...
AMMAN: When Rabee Shrouf put on his first pair of ballet shoes two years ago, he knew he had found his calling. The...
It was a house and a symbol. Just before Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was sworn in on Saturday as Mexico’s president, hundreds lined...
Paris, The Louvre museum in Paris has announced it will open its doors for free one Saturday night a month to attract younger,...
Washington: One woman flexed her biceps and performed pushups, another thumbed her rosary beads, and several danced energetic jigs. Incoming members of Congress...
MONTPELIER, Vt.: Longtime New Yorker magazine cartoonist and Vermont resident Edward Koren has released a new book of cartoons spanning about 40 years...
A member of staff poses on the stage of Alexandra Palace Theatre, now open to the public for the first time in 80...
ST. LOUIS: The indictment of four St. Louis police officers provides a troubling glimpse into the mindset of officers who were eager to...
New York: Buy a goat to donate to a poor family...from a vending machine? It's now possible in New York, London and Manila,...
Soweto, South Africa: US television celebrity Oprah Winfrey on Thursday paid emotional tribute to Nelson Mandela as she prepared to host a star-studded...
Los Angeles: It's a boy! It's a girl! But for an off-duty border patrol officer in the US state of Arizona, it ended...
Paris, A piece of the original spiral staircase from the Eiffel Tower, Paris's most famous attraction, was sold for 169,000 euro (US$190,000). The...
NEW YORK: Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com's word of the year on the tattered coattails of "toxic," picked...
LONDON: X-ray images of people and everyday objects have gone on display in a new gallery in Britain, where visitors can watch photographer...
Gaza City: The only grand piano in the Gaza Strip was played in public for the first time in a decade, following a...
ROME: So versatile were Leonardo da Vinci's talents in art and science and so boundless his visionary imagination, he is known to the...
NEW DELHI: The young American, paddling his kayak toward a remote Indian island whose people have resisted the outside world for thousands of...
