Yangon: Students and former activists in Myanmar marked the 30th anniversary of the famed 1988 pro-democracy uprising with a rousing but low-key ceremony,...
Yangon: Students and former activists in Myanmar marked the 30th anniversary of the famed 1988 pro-democracy uprising with a rousing but low-key ceremony,...
MEMPHIS, Tenn.: More than 78 years after civil rights worker Elbert Williams' body was found in a Tennessee river, a district attorney announced...
Oslo: The ship used by Norwegian polar explorer Roald Amundsen finally returned home yesterday, completing its journey around the North Pole 100 years...
Moscow: The Russian company that owns the country's most popular social media network on Monday expressed concern at the increasing number of internet...
Apple Inc, YouTube, Facebook Inc and Spotify all took down podcasts and channels from U.S. conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, saying on Monday that...
LONDON: Half of British women find the word housewife outdated, sexist or embarrassing, a survey said on Thursday, as pressure mounts for greater...
ACCRA: Agricultural development in northern Ghana is lifting people out of poverty, but researchers say progress has come at a deadly cost, worsening...
RALEIGH, N.C.: Residents in a North Carolina town hoping to read "Rex Morgan M.D." with Sunday coffee are in for a rude awakening....
Rio de Janeiro: A Kurdish refugee turned Cambridge University professor who was awarded math's most prestigious prize in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday...
NELLIE, India: Thirty-six years after losing his parents, sister and a four-year-old daughter in one of India's worst sectarian massacres, Abdul Suban says...
Srinagar, India: A home-made bomb set off the insurgency against Indian rule in Kashmir 30 years ago, but "new age" fighters using social...
Beijing: Britain's new foreign minister made an awkward debut in China on Monday when he sought to curry favour with his hosts by...
GENEVA: Swiss watchmaker Swatch Group is quitting the annual Baselworld watch and jewellery trade fair, the NZZ am Sonntag newspaper reported yesterday, calling...
KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh: With his blond dreads tied in a ponytail and baggy jeans caked with paint smudges, Max Frieder first arrived at the...
NORTH ATTLEBOROUGH: A valuable painting that hung unnoticed in a Massachusetts school for decades is returning to town after 11 years in storage...
MEXICO CITY: Remedios Rosas was walking down a Mexico City street Saturday when she saw seven tutu-clad dancers tiptoe to the sidewalk, their...
Wellington: New Zealand authorities have been accused of "vandalism" after they stripped the ivory key tops from an antique piano shipped into the...
NEW YORK: For decades, scholars have wanted to get a closer look at unpublished sections of a towering 20th century book, "The Autobiography...
