Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand--Deftly feeling their way along the bumps of the braille score, the young players of Thailand's first blind orchestra memorise scales,...
Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand--Deftly feeling their way along the bumps of the braille score, the young players of Thailand's first blind orchestra memorise scales,...
Abu Dhabi--The first attempt to fly around the world in a solar-powered plane will take off from Abu Dhabi on Monday, its pilots...
Ouagadougou--Even in death, the former revolutionary leader of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara, helped inspire the uprising that ousted his successor last year, and...
Tokyo--Japanese officials are enlisting one of the country's best-known historical figures -- the ninja, martial-arts master and stealth agent of feudal times --...
Paris--The catwalk parades at Paris Fashion Week and similar events might steal the global media limelight, but street style on the sidelines is...
Swaihan, United Arab Emirates---Mohammed Iqsaan runs a real estate company in Dubai but off-roading over desert dunes on weekends is his escape from...
Moscow---When days are dark, friends are few and the state of your bank account makes you want to weep, there is only one...
Vivienne Westwood Paris---Punk is Vivienne Westwood's leitmotif, and the 73-year-old British fashion designer showed her radical roots are intact at her latest show...
Washington---Talk about a cool dude: he once stopped a sulfuric acid leak with a piece of chocolate, and dismantled a missile using a...
Paris---In the showy world of look-at-me fashion, the quiet elegance of Jeanne Lanvin -- a hardworking couturiere who was a contemporary of the...
Nakhon Pathom, Thailand---It begins with moans, then screams and feverish dancing followed by mad dashes through a densely packed crowd. Thousands of Buddhist...
Washington--Talk about a cool dude: he once stopped a sulfuric acid leak with a piece of chocolate, and dismantled a missile using a...
Beijing--A hard-hitting video investigation into China's grave air pollution problem has been pulled from mainstream video sites, days after it garnered more than...
Singapore--Singapore has banned a music festival scheduled to take place later this month over concerns of drug use after multiple deaths at last...
Yangon--A bird that was long thought to have gone extinct has been rediscovered in Myanmar after a team of scientists used a recording...
Washington--With hackers seemingly running rampant online and millions of users compromised, efforts for stronger online identity protection -- mainly using biometrics -- are...
London--New technologies are capitalising on the jobs market and in the workplace, said Arianna Huffington and Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt at a...
Los Angeles--Oscar-winning Australian actress Cate Blanchett and her husband have adopted a daughter, their fourth child, People magazine reported Friday. The 45-year-old and...
