LONDON: American author George Saunders has won the 2017 Man Booker Prize, a high-profile literary award, for his first novel, "Lincoln in the...
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...
Abidjan: It has been buffeted by the pendulum swing of domestic politics and suffered looting that left it without some of its most...
Yangon: First there was drinks and paddleboard yoga. Then someone added goats to the mix. Now fitness buffs in Myanmar are taking the...
TALISH, Azerbaijan: Conflict can be long, slow and boring. Especially for the civilians stuck in its midst, living a half life that is...
Brasília: The craze for tourists taking selfies alongside wild animals then posting on Instagram is fueling cruel treatment of iconic species in the...
DANDONG, China: Seated beneath tall windows and dressed simply in singlets and trousers, North Korean painters are hard at work. The artists staple...
PARIS: Karl Lagerfeld brought the drama of the natural world indoors for Chanel’s catwalk show on the final day of Paris Fashion Week,...
Hong Kong: A 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold for US$37.7 million in Hong Kong on Tuesday, breaking the record for Chinese...
Santa Clara, Cuba: Santa Clara has been associated with Ernesto "Che" Guevara ever since he won the final battle of the Cuban revolution...
Stockholm: Who will win the 2017 Nobel Literature Prize, after Bob Dylan last year? The Swedish Academy likes to stun the world with...
