BEIJING: The ruling Communist Party on Tuesday formally lifted Xi Jinping's status to China's most powerful ruler in decades, setting the stage for...
BEIJING: The ruling Communist Party on Tuesday formally lifted Xi Jinping's status to China's most powerful ruler in decades, setting the stage for...
New York: US fashion photographer Terry Richardson, who has been accused of sexually exploiting models for years, will no longer have his work...
Jerusalem: A note that Albert Einstein gave to a courier in Tokyo briefly describing his theory on happy living sold at auction in...
LONDON, Harry Potter is continuing to work his magic for publisher Bloomsbury 20 years after his debut, with special editions of his first...
Washington, Napoleon Bonaparte and Auguste Rodin are both household names in their own right. But a bust of the French emperor created by...
At the world’s largest solar farm in the world, 10,000 panels float on a lake of the size of 160 American football fields....
Kathmandu: A Turkish Airlines plane that crash landed at Kathmandu airport two years ago will be welcoming ticket holders on board again --...
MILAN, Giorgio Armani’s succession plans include a transfer of part of his high-end fashion empire to his charitable foundation in a bid to...
LONDON: A hand-written letter found on the body of a man killed in the sinking of the Titanic is expected to fetch up...
LONDON: After graduating from the prestigious Stanford University, Andrea Chen was shocked when she started teaching in New Orleans: seventeen-year-olds couldn’t spell the...
SAN CARLOS: Farmers who fled war in the Colombian Andes are returning to revive their abandoned land, cultivating coffee trees that are boosting...
LJUBLJANA/BELGRADE: In 2009, Serbian general Vladimir Lazarevic was convicted by a U.N. court of war crimes over the forced deportation of more than...
Washington: Publishing giant Pearson has apologized for material in a nursing textbook which has been criticized as culturally and racially offensive. The objectionable...
Santa Cruz de Mompox, Colombia, With strong yet delicate hands, Daniel Alfonso Garrido masterfully manipulates fragile threads of gold to craft fine jewelry,...
Tokyo: The Tokyo stock market might be riding two-decade highs, but a growing number of Japanese are choosing to stash their cash in...
JAKARTA: The U.S. government had intimate knowledge of the mass killing of alleged communists in Indonesia in the mid 1960s even as it...
ZURICH: The Swiss government on Wednesday opposed letting men take subsidised paternity leave from their jobs, saying it would cost too much and...
Johannesburg: The sequel to Nelson Mandela's celebrated autobiography "Long Walk to Freedom" will be released on Thursday after his unfinished draft was completed...
