AMSTERDAM: When Magdalena was clearing out her home in Amsterdam, she took her old clothes and other household waste to a recycling hub,...
AMSTERDAM: When Magdalena was clearing out her home in Amsterdam, she took her old clothes and other household waste to a recycling hub,...
BENIN CITY: For almost two decades, 42-year-old Patience earned a steady income sending girls from Nigeria to Europe for sex work, using black...
Brighton, United Kingdom: Britain's Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable bungled the climax of his party conference speech on Tuesday by suggesting hardcore Brexiteers...
JERUSALEM: Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is a time when many non-regular Israeli synagogue-goers take time to pray. It...
LONDON: Exhausted Londoners hoping to take a rest from their busy schedules are being offered an alternative to coffee breaks: a sleep pod...
NEW YORK: Bob Woodward's "Fear" is spreading quickly. Woodward's account of a dysfunctional Trump White House has already sold more than 750,000 copies,...
BANGKOK: An award-winning design for factory worker housing in Cambodia's capital will serve as a model for homes in other cities in the...
RIO DE JANEIRO: Illegal loggers and militias cleared an area three times the size of Gibraltar in Brazil's Amazon this year, threatening an...
Kongthong: Curious whistles and chirrups echo through the jungle around Kongthong, a remote Indian village, but this is no birdsong. It's people calling...
Rabat: With a backpack filled with pirated books, Khalid wanders the streets of Rabat peddling cheap reads -- part of a flourishing black...
Moscow: After posting a few feminist jokes and rants online, Russian blogger Lyubov Kalugina hardly expected to face five years in jail for...
LONDON: A Scottish university will launch a "programme of reparative justice" after discovering it gained tens of millions of pounds from historical slavery,...
Limoges, France: France's Elysee presidential palace moved swiftly Saturday to protect one of the nation's historic brands after discovering mugs stamped "Limoges porcelain"...
Santa Cruz, Spain: Surging worldwide demand for almonds is pushing Spanish farmers to replace traditional wheat and sunflower fields with almond orchards, transforming...
Guatemala City: A 1,500 year old Mayan altar discovered in a small archeological site in northern Guatemala is drawing comparisons to popular fantasy...
RIO DE JANEIRO: In a Brazilian presidential election marked by uncertainties, there is little doubt about one thing: Evangelical voters will have a...
Antananarivo: A stone's throw from the presidential palace in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo, men sit for hours playing fanorona -- a cross between chequers...
NEW YORK: One of David Hockney's famous "pool paintings" is coming to auction and is expected to sell in the $80 million range,...
