French luxury titans LVMH and Kering agreed to curb the use of ultra-skinny models on runways and in advertising campaigns, bowing to a...
French luxury titans LVMH and Kering agreed to curb the use of ultra-skinny models on runways and in advertising campaigns, bowing to a...
Kathmandu: Nepali comedian Manoj Gajurel received threats for impersonating the king when the small Himalayan country was still ruled by a Hindu monarchy....
Thiruvananthapuram: Old age homes for the cash-rich have been around in some Indian cities for quite a while, but the concept has only...
BAMENDA, Cameroon: Cameroonians in the English-speaking west of the country boarded up their shops, stayed home from work and boycotted the start of...
VENICE: Rudimentary iPhone shots of people huddled in rubber boats approaching a Greek island was what led to the creation of refugee epic...
Ljubljana: When you visit the main congress centre in Slovenia’s capital you may get more that the usual conference: how about a jar...
LAHORE & SHANGHAI: Zhang Yang, a businessman from Chongqing in southwest China, is searching online forums for fellow stout-hearted entrepreneurs willing to cast...
Anfeh, Lebanon: At 93, Elias al-Najjar has spent half a century harvesting salt by hand from ponds on Lebanon's Mediterranean shore, but he...
BERLIN: Pope Francis - in comments in the foreword of a new book - has branded sexual abuse of children by Roman Catholic...
Malmedy, Belgique: About a thousand people flocked to the small Belgian town of Malmedy on Tuesday to eat a giant omelette made of...
ALEXANDRIA: In a small studio littered with empty cigarette packets in Egypt’s second city, Alexandria, Abdelrahman al-Habrouk sits hunched over a sheet of...
Athens: Although in the shadow of its ancient hilltop Parthenon, Athens is also home to elegant architectural gems from the 19th and 20th...
HAVANA: The graffiti of alien-like beings and balaclava-clad men appearing on Havana’s dilapidated walls strikes a contrast with the upbeat political slogans and...
Jerusalem: Israeli Holocaust survivor Yisrael Kristal, certified last year by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man, died on Friday aged 113,...
LONDON: Engravings on a human bone from a prehistoric archaeological site in a cave in southern England shows that human cannibals ate their...
Mitrovica, Kosovo: Kosovo's Roma minority "are not treated as humans," laments Florim Masurica, who is seeking justice for his disabled son, one of...
LONDON: In the fairy tale of “The Travelling Princess”, the heroine is granted one wish: to travel through foreign lands, meet new friends...
When Mondelez International Inc. said Wednesday that Chief Executive Officer Irene Rosenfeld was retiring, it was no surprise that the food company also...
