New Delhi: Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them...
New Delhi: Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them...
Havana: She needs help sitting down, but no sooner has she done it than Alicia Alonso is tapping her foot three times and...
DAKAR: More than 300 communities across four West African countries with some of the world’s highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) are...
Moscow: In Russia, elderly women are usually expected to forget about fashion and watch their grandchildren. Not 71-year-old Olga Kondrasheva, who is fighting...
Los Angeles: Breast implants, a photo of the brain of John F. Kennedy, a cheerleader's outfit and the sketches of a serial killer:...
Leptis Magna, Libye: Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius Severus which dominates Libya's ancient city of Leptis Magna, brandishing letters of...
A Beijing driver calls a radio station in a panic. The smog is so thick he's just shot through five red lights because...
Paris: The French publishers of a book of "lost" Vincent Van Gogh sketches on Monday threatened legal action against a Dutch museum that...
Berlin: Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in a...
Dhaka: Many of Bangladesh's most significant political prisoners have been incarcerated within the walls of the two-century old Dhaka Central Jail. Now the...
Paris: Dream castings don't come much better than Mikhail Baryshnikov playing Vaslav Nijinsky -- one great ballet dancer playing another. Baryshnikov, now 68,...
GITHURE, Kenya: On a dusty summer day in this village in central Kenya, a group of farmers in brown overcoats and black gumboots...
LONDON: Asylum seekers from countries that practise female genital mutilation should be taught about the legal and medical dangers of FGM as soon...
EMBU, Kenya: Violet Karimi spends her days as she always has, attending to household chores and working on her farm. But when the...
WITU, Kenya: Too poor to buy land where they grew up on Kenya’s palm-fringed southern coast, Sylvester Jefua and his wife migrated 300...
Los Angeles: The encounter had seemed promising enough, but the couple brought together by an online dating site failed to connect because of...
WASHINGTON: A stolen 14th century illustration of a Roman Catholic saint was returned on Friday to Italy, where it will be put in...
Budapest: Ninety years after his death, the secrets of the world's greatest escape artist, Harry Houdini, have been unlocked in a recently opened...
