Newly widowed, Kay McCowen quit her job, sold her house, applied for Social Security and retired to Mexico. It was a move she...
Newly widowed, Kay McCowen quit her job, sold her house, applied for Social Security and retired to Mexico. It was a move she...
Butembo, DR Congo: In DR Congo's war-infested Great Lakes region, carpenter-turned-sculptor Sauveur Mulwana has left a trail of monumental statues over the past...
Ottawa: Ancient spuds recently dug up on Canada's Pacific coast are blackened and surely unedible, but are the first proof, say researchers, that...
Santiago: The world's oldest mummies have just had an unusual check-up. More than 7,000 years after they were embalmed by the Chinchorro people,...
New Delhi: Many precious stones have a blood-soaked history, but a new book reveals the world's most famous diamond the Koh-i-Noor surpasses them...
Havana: She needs help sitting down, but no sooner has she done it than Alicia Alonso is tapping her foot three times and...
DAKAR: More than 300 communities across four West African countries with some of the world’s highest rates of female genital mutilation (FGM) are...
Moscow: In Russia, elderly women are usually expected to forget about fashion and watch their grandchildren. Not 71-year-old Olga Kondrasheva, who is fighting...
Los Angeles: Breast implants, a photo of the brain of John F. Kennedy, a cheerleader's outfit and the sketches of a serial killer:...
Leptis Magna, Libye: Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius Severus which dominates Libya's ancient city of Leptis Magna, brandishing letters of...
A Beijing driver calls a radio station in a panic. The smog is so thick he's just shot through five red lights because...
Paris: The French publishers of a book of "lost" Vincent Van Gogh sketches on Monday threatened legal action against a Dutch museum that...
Berlin: Better known for its electronic music and street art, Berlin is now also home to a budding graphic novel scene in a...
Dhaka: Many of Bangladesh's most significant political prisoners have been incarcerated within the walls of the two-century old Dhaka Central Jail. Now the...
Paris: Dream castings don't come much better than Mikhail Baryshnikov playing Vaslav Nijinsky -- one great ballet dancer playing another. Baryshnikov, now 68,...
GITHURE, Kenya: On a dusty summer day in this village in central Kenya, a group of farmers in brown overcoats and black gumboots...
LONDON: Asylum seekers from countries that practise female genital mutilation should be taught about the legal and medical dangers of FGM as soon...
EMBU, Kenya: Violet Karimi spends her days as she always has, attending to household chores and working on her farm. But when the...
