TIANJIN, China: In a glass tower in a trendy part of China’s eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit...
TIANJIN, China: In a glass tower in a trendy part of China’s eastern city of Tianjin, hundreds of young men and women sit...
TASHKENT: Uzbek dissident writer Nurulloh Muhammad Raufkhon said on Monday that anti-government propaganda charges against him were a mistake and he hoped to...
Richard Dever had swabbed the campground shower stalls and emptied 20 garbage cans, and now he climbed slowly onto a John Deere mower...
Hong Kong: Each Sunday, a choir of Filipina domestic workers in Hong Kong gathers to sing songs that remind them of the children...
Paris: Photographers have risen up in revolt at the way fashion labels and influencers are using their street style images without crediting them,...
BEIJING: In his baseball cap and baggy yellow t-shirt, the rap star Li Yijie - better known by his stage name “Pissy” -...
Paris: The art market is booming fuelled by rocketing prices for contemporary art with work by street artists like Banksy among the fast...
Shanghai: Urgent cries ring out in a room crammed with computers and caffeine -- "Kill that one!" "They're murdering us!" -- as training...
Kanuma, Japan: A series of fatal crashes caused by elderly drivers in Japan has left authorities desperately grappling for ways to clamp down...
TOKYO: Japanese avant-garde artist Yayoi Kusama, whose work commands some of the highest prices of any living female artist, said on Tuesday that...
Rome: From George Eliot to John le Carre, writers reaching out for the disguise or anonymity offered by a pseudonym is nothing new...
Moscow: Workers in Moscow on Friday erased the illustration of a gun from a freshly-inaugurated monument of Mikhail Kalashnikov, inventor of the legendary...
Yaoundé: Several thousand demonstrators took to the streets in English-speaking parts of Cameroon in protest at perceived discrimination in favour of the country's...
Gwangju, South Korea: Condemned to death twice for spying, Seo Ok-Ryol spent three decades in prison, most of it in solitary confinement. Now...
Cárdenas, Cuba: The humble bicycle is gradually shedding its grim association with Cuba's economic crisis that followed the fall of the Soviet Union,...
Miami: Teenagers in America today are about three years behind their counterparts from the 1970s when it comes to taking up sex, drinking...
ALMATY: When Uzbek writer Nurulloh Muhammad Raufkhon’s new book came out last year, security forces raided his home and put the author -...
Paris: The French artist JR made headlines across the world at the weekend with his huge "Kilroy was here" photograph of a Mexican...
