Wittenberg, Germany: Carrying an armful of "Luther Brodt" gingerbread to the cashier, Mikael Byrial Jensen admits sheepishly that Martin Luther would probably not...
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...
Chicago: As a police officer patrolling the streets of Chicago, Antoinette Alcazar admits to being overwhelmed at times, needing escape from the everyday...
I always worry that saying a book proves something can be done diminishes it a little bit. To praise a book this way...
