Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims. Every year, Muslims around the world fast during daylight hours, but what is it really about? ...
Ramadan is the holiest month for Muslims. Every year, Muslims around the world fast during daylight hours, but what is it really about? ...
Hammam al-Alil, Iraq: Mustafa al-Ta'i worked in secret at night, using his brushes and pencils to record the violence he saw during the...
Wittenberg, Germany: Carrying an armful of "Luther Brodt" gingerbread to the cashier, Mikael Byrial Jensen admits sheepishly that Martin Luther would probably not...
Tokyo: Workaholic Japan is known for long office hours and stressed out employees, but one company claims to have a cure: Cats. A...
NEW YORK: Works by Francis Bacon and Cy Twombly each sold for more than $50 million at Christie's on Wednesday, helping drive a...
Djerba, Tunisia: Tunisia plans to seek UNESCO World Heritage status for the island of Djerba, site of Africa's oldest synagogue and an annual...
Yasothon, Thailand: Salvos of homemade rockets blasted into the sky amid thumping dance music, mud-wrestling and monks as Thailand's northeast hailed the start...
Puerto Williams, Chile: Just outside the southernmost settlement in the world, an 89-year-old woman is the last native speaker of her people's ancient...
New Delhi: Shakeel Ahmad wanders the cramped alleyways of Old Delhi offering water from a goat hide canteen slung over his shoulder, a...
New York: Classical music, framed watercolors and vases overflowing with fresh flowers -- welcome to New York's poshest public toilets refitted with a...
Ho Chi Minh City: They formed the charming backdrop to Graham Greene's sin-filled Saigon in "The Quiet American", but the colonial-era buildings of...
BUCHAREST: Visitors to Romania who yearn for a taste of communist era kitsch now have an entire museum to enjoy. From the mundane...
Melissa Ferry is a big believer in the benefits of allowing students to use fidget toys in the classroom. She points to research...
RENO, Nev.: A Twitter plea from a Nevada teen for a year of free chicken nuggets from Wendy's is now the most retweeted...
Srinagar, India: Through sombre black and white drawings, graphic novelist Malik Sajad tells the brutal story of his native Kashmir in the 1990s,...
Rome: The Arabic translation of the "The Secret Agent" by the English novelist Joseph Conrad was recently published by the Mediterranean Publishing Institute,...
Jerusalem: Palestinian fashion designer Natalie Tahhan is hard at work in her Jerusalem studio, replacing the painstaking processes of cross-stitching and embroidery with...
Vatican City: Forty new Swiss Guards were sworn in at the Vatican on Saturday, the latest halberd-clutching soldiers of the pope to serve...
