MONTARGIS, France: The small town of Montargis is only 100 kilometers south of Paris, but for many of its inhabitants it might as well be on the dark side of...
JALALABAD, Afghanistan: Standing in a field of roses in eastern Afghanistan, former poppy grower Mohammad Din Sapai quickly but carefully plucks the delicate...
KABUL: Disfigured by four decades of war, the Afghan capital Kabul offers few reminders of its former glory in Islamic art or religious tolerance but...
KABUL: Inside the Afghanistan Powerlifting Federation’s cramped gym, Rasheda Parhiz lies on a bench wearing a tunic over sweatpants and holding a 70-kilogram...
BALKH, Afghanistan: In the white dusty plains of northern Afghanistan, archaeologists are seeking to unravel the secrets of one of the oldest mosques in the...
KABUL: The Taliban have tried to kill Zainullah, a former translator for the French Army, twice already, he says, warning that the insurgents have expanded...
KABUL: Fleeing grinding poverty and unemployment, thousands of Afghan Shiites have been recruited by Iran to defend Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime,...
KABUL: The Taliban, which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan, now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country’s heroin...
KABUL: The blast walls that cut through Kabul like ramparts are being pulled down, part of a counterintuitive makeover by local officials who argue the move...
KABUL: Afghan women are redrawing the media landscape in the deeply conservative country with the launch of a new magazine and a television channel, risking...
KABUL: A rare Afghan marsh that was once a royal hunting ground is set to come under the official protection of the U.N. environment agency, with the aim of...
HERAT, Afghanistan: It was first used by the armies of the Roman Empire. Centuries later, the tourniquet is buying casualties in Afghanistan what they need...
KABUL: Thousands of people are fleeing the conflict roiling Afghanistan, but American backpacker John Milton recently made the reverse journey to the...
KABUL: Who can lay claim to Rumi, the Sufi mystic who is one of the world’s most beloved poets? A bid by Iran and Turkey to do so has exasperated...
PARIS: Would Sir and Madam care for red or white with their meal to appeal to their exacting, traditionalist palates? After all, pink is surely plonk –...
AVRILLE, France: Whether the ingredients are traditional, exotic or frankly bizarre, French liqueurs are reliable “ambassadors of quality,” an industry leader...
CALVISANO, Italy: With pools 85 times the size of the nearby pitches where Rugby Calvisano plays, the company Agro Ittica Lombarda is putting this northern...
PARIS: The future may be bitter for chocolate lovers unless cocoa producers step up their output dramatically to satisfy an expected surge in demand from...
PARIS: Will locusts feed the world? The voracious flying insect, capable of swarming in millions and stripping fields of crops, has long been associated with...
MONROVIA: Liberia is selling itself slice by slice nine years after a terrible civil conflict finally came to an end, offering valuable resources to the...
PARIS: Google's executive chairman Eric Schmidt met French President Francois Hollande on Monday amid a revenue row with French, German and Italian media...
VILLEPINTE, France: A teardrop of salt, a whisper of saffron, a drizzle of lobster: Luxury in small doses was the keynote at a giant food industry fair...
CANNES: The much-anticipated film about Nicolas Sarkozy’s rise to power premiering at Cannes will pull no punches as it strips bare French politics, says...