Utrecht: When a musical legend dies, a tribute can often be heard ringing out from the most unexpected of places: the tallest church...
Utrecht: When a musical legend dies, a tribute can often be heard ringing out from the most unexpected of places: the tallest church...
Mosul: For centuries, it was a magnet for artists across the region and churned out Iraq's best musicians -- but recent years saw...
BOSTON: The latest crop of American Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class. The Rhodes Trust announced Sunday the 32...
Marilyn Monroe's Golden Globe Award sold for a record-breaking $250,000 at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills, California, auction officials said late Saturday. The...
NEW YORK: The Statue of Liberty's original torch, which has been housed in the base of the statue since a replica replaced it...
Madrid: Uruguayan poet Ida Vitale, 95, on Thursday won the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world, Spain's Culture...
LONDON: What single word best captures the tone of the past year? Oxford Dictionaries says it's "toxic." Oxford University Press monitors changes in...
TAIPEI: Chen San-yuan turns heads as he cycles through a suburb of Taipei, Taiwan's capital. The reason why? Attached to the front of...
JAKARTA: Archeologists discovered a series of 40,000-year-old cave paintings, oldest known figurative art, in the Indonesian island of Borneo. The paintings were found...
London: Babies laugh as they both exhale and inhale, in a manner that is remarkably similar to non-human primates, says a new study...
New York: Earth’s global ocean water may have originated from both asteroidal material and gas left over from the formation of the Sun,...
KROKOS, Greece: Every autumn, Zisis Kyrou is more often found plucking flowers in northern Greece's purple saffron fields than in his office as...
UTRECHT, Netherlands: Self-styled positivity guru Emile Ratelband thinks age is just a number. And his is a number the Dutchman wants changed. The...
KUALA LUMPUR: A feminist manga-style artist says she will use characters based on an Egyptian pharaoh and a Chinese empress to bring more...
Business is going strong, but fewer U.S. companies are celebrating with holiday parties this year. This may be the result of the #MeToo...
Harare: Children entering a hut in a suburb of Zimbabwe's capital gaze in wonder at objects foreign to them -- ancient farm tools,...
Budapest: Not every diver's dream is to watch shimmering shoals of fish swim through coral reefs in dazzlingly blue seas. For Laura Tuominen,...
Paris: The British poet and writer Rudyard Kipling, an ardent supporter of his country's entry into World War I, did everything he could...
