Tokyo: A 116-year-old Japanese woman who still enjoys studying math and playing board games has been recognised as the world's oldest person, the...
Tokyo: A 116-year-old Japanese woman who still enjoys studying math and playing board games has been recognised as the world's oldest person, the...
Paris: Protests, strikes and studies -- people around the globe are taking action to mark International Women's Day and to push for action...
Dubai: A group of evangelical pastors from the U.S. visited the predominantly Muslim Shiite nation of Azerbaijan to promote interfaith dialogue and highlight...
NEW YORK: Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova was launched into space 55 years ago. She was followed nearly 20 years later by the second woman...
WASHINGTON: The small room was packed with children and adults listening attentively. They had come to the children’s section of the Takoma Park...
Beijing: The Chinese Communist Party is trying a new way to woo younger people, commissioning an anime series whose hero is clean-shaven, slim...
Geneva: Progress towards gender parity at work has barely budged for the past quarter century, and will only speed up once men take...
CHICAGO: Shawn Cotton no longer drives his $55,000, bright pink Corvette to work because he's afraid it could get him killed like his...
Baghdad: Behind the dilapidated storefronts and collapsing colonnades of Rasheed Street lie the treasures of the Iraqi capital's cultural boom years: old cinemas,...
Paris: It's so small wags joke that it can only hold a Tic Tac. But French brand Jacquemus' teeny weeny bag, "Le Mini...
Tulkarm, West Bank: Posters of classic movies are scattered on the upper floor of Abdel-Rahim Hanoun's wedding hall, signs of the building's past...
Paris, Karl Lagerfeld's final collection for Chanel will be presented in the Grand Palais in Paris on Tuesday, the scene of some of...
NAIROBI: Whirling masked spirits clad in raffia and laughing children daubed with clay dance across the pages of "African Twilight", the latest book...
PARIS: Words were almost inaudible amid the screams at the Paris Fashion Week show where Stella McCartney presented a collection that toyed with...
VATICAN CITY: Saying the "Church is not afraid of history", Pope Francis announced on Monday he plans to open fully the Vatican's secret...
Paris: Tartan, nipped waists and lots of hats.... We pick out the biggest style trends in the autumn winter collections as Paris women's...
A rapidly growing number of counties in at least four states are declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries, refusing to enforce gun-control laws that...
New York, US researchers have discovered a mechanism for how androgens -- male sex steroids -- sculpt brain development, which could ultimately help...
