LONDON: After graduating from the prestigious Stanford University, Andrea Chen was shocked when she started teaching in New Orleans: seventeen-year-olds couldn’t spell the...
LONDON: After graduating from the prestigious Stanford University, Andrea Chen was shocked when she started teaching in New Orleans: seventeen-year-olds couldn’t spell the...
SAN CARLOS: Farmers who fled war in the Colombian Andes are returning to revive their abandoned land, cultivating coffee trees that are boosting...
LJUBLJANA/BELGRADE: In 2009, Serbian general Vladimir Lazarevic was convicted by a U.N. court of war crimes over the forced deportation of more than...
Washington: Publishing giant Pearson has apologized for material in a nursing textbook which has been criticized as culturally and racially offensive. The objectionable...
Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia, With strong yet delicate hands, Daniel Alfonso Garrido masterfully manipulates fragile threads of gold to craft fine jewelry,...
Tokyo: The Tokyo stock market might be riding two-decade highs, but a growing number of Japanese are choosing to stash their cash in...
JAKARTA: The U.S. government had intimate knowledge of the mass killing of alleged communists in Indonesia in the mid 1960s even as it...
ZURICH: The Swiss government on Wednesday opposed letting men take subsidised paternity leave from their jobs, saying it would cost too much and...
Johannesburg: The sequel to Nelson Mandela's celebrated autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" will be released on Thursday after his unfinished draft was completed...
LONDON: American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, "Lincoln in the...
Paris, Morocco and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) signed an agreement here on Tuesday to create a "National Living...
CAIRO: Cairo was named on Monday as the most dangerous megacity for women by an international poll with women’s rights experts saying the...
Medio Purus Extractive Reserve, Brazil: In western Brazil's Amazon, the very people tasked with looking after the world's greatest rainforest are themselves wondering...
Eatontown, United States: What better, safer way to have fun than have a drink and throw a hatchet? This is now a thing...
Frankfurt am Main: The world's largest publishing event, the Frankfurt Book Fair, opens its doors to the public this weekend after hosting industry...
Dan Brown’s mystery thriller “Origin,” the latest saga starring fictional Harvard symbology professor Robert Langdon, topped the fiction bestsellers chart on Thursday, knocking...
Baghdad: Iraqi football supporters decked out in red cram into a cafe in Baghdad to cheer on their shared love -- Manchester United....
FRANKFURT: Goetz Kubitschek, a leading light of Germany’s far right, stood in his stall at the world’s biggest book fair on Wednesday, ignoring...
