South Korean workers fed up with bullying are being increasingly emboldened by a new tougher labor law to secretly record alleged abuse or harassment by their bosses, boosting sales of high-tech audio and video devices.
Gary Kelly and Bruce Munro, reforming drug users from Glasgow, count themselves lucky. They have survived the kind of lethal addictions to substances that have left Scotland with the highest drug-related death rate in the European Union, according to official Scottish statistics.
Tokyo was named the world’s safest city Thursday by the Economist Intelligence Unit, in an index ranking cities’ ability to handle everything from climate disasters to cyberattacks. Singapore took second place while another Japanese metropolis, Osaka, came third - the same top three as the two previous Safe Cities Indexes of 2015 and 2017. This year the index of 60 cities aimed to capture the concept of “urban resilience,” which is the ability of cities to absorb and bounce back from shocks, researchers said.
A century after Germany’s monarchy was abolished, some of its blue-blooded descendants are riding back into battle to reclaim what they see as their royal birthright.
Eleven more women have accused Spanish opera star Placido Domingo of sexual misconduct, allegations that the leading tenor described Thursday as “riddled with...
The longest queues at the Venice Film Festival have not been to see Hollywood stars like Brad Pitt or Scarlett Johansson.
Germans Wednesday celebrated 70 years of the currywurst, a Berlin specialty of sliced sausage smothered in curry powder and ketchup, as they celebrated its...
Crowds of children bustle around chessboards in Nigeria’s Lagos, figuring out their next moves as part of a project that aims to bring hope in one of the...
Time to raise a glass to better gut health?
With a commitment to public responsibility and in line with the company’s long-established values of caring for the environment by reducing waste and acting...
Grape harvesting tour, wine tasting and a lunch of local ingredients, prepared by international chefs.
Seated at wooden tables covered in blue and white cloth, the sound of sea nearby and the ultramarine domes of Santorini in the background, it was easy to...
Scientists reported Thursday they had picked up human-like electrical activity in lab-grown brains for the first time, paving the way to model neurological...
When Liz O’Sullivan was hired at the New York City-based artificial intelligence company Clarifai in 2017, she felt lucky to find work at the intersection of...
The idea of starting a Russian choir in rural Australia began as a vodka-fueled lark, but five years on a rag-tag bunch of farmers, lawyers and laborers have...
It’s going to be a cruise to nowhere, but that will be just fine with die-hard “Star Wars” fans.
The most expensive new car ever sold is a one-off Bugatti luxury sports car that has gone for 16.7 million euros ($18.9 million).
If you want to ride like Vlad – Russian President Vladimir Putin, that is – this may be the limo for you.
When you shop for a new sofa or another piece of furniture, it’s not hard to envision how it might look in your living room.
Five years ago, for her 27th birthday, Lorelei Bandrovschi gave up drinking for a month on a dare.
A bartender asks Gavin Smith whether he fancies a citrus pale ale or Kolsch-style lager at the Newman Arms - a London pub dating back to 1730.
Vienna has held off Melbourne to retain the top spot on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index for 2019, further strengthening its...
Equipped with powerful magnets, history enthusiasts and environmentalists scour France’s rivers, pulling out bits of scrap metal, bikes, scooters and the odd...
Atop a string of green mountains in Saudi Arabia, a monthlong festival drew a medley of yoga enthusiasts, extreme adventure seekers, tourists and traditional...
Germany’s first giant panda cubs have been born and their mother, Meng Meng, is doing a wonderful job looking after the pink twins who bear no resemblance to...
If death is the great equalizer, South Africa’s designer graveyards look like one of the best ends on offer.
Holidaymakers splash in the turquoise waters of the Rosignano Solvay beach in Tuscany and laze on its pristine white sands - most of them fully aware that the...
Sharks appear to be getting an image makeover as countries move to restrict trade in several species of the oceans’ top predator in a push to extend more...
In the sleepy Cuban fishing village of Cojimar that inspired Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea,” locals say they are struggling to catch fish.
A team of scientists in the U.S. have managed to reproduce coral in a lab setting for the first time ever, an encouraging step in the race to save “America’s...
Clunky games consoles with blobby pixels might not be the latest thing - but they’re still cool even if you’re no longer at school.
Hidden under a lush green canopy of boreal forest in southeastern Canada are 80 fully stocked tents featuring feather beds, silk sheets, electric lighting,...
Among countless stands of car manufacturers, software developers and engineering universities at Cologne’s video games convention, the sight of fatigue-clad...
When one of the world's leading tobacco companies commits to designing a smoke-free future, heads must stop and turn.
In the searing heat of Dubai, some of the world’s top racehorses are being swathed in freezing nitrogen mist to boost their performance.
Cubans and beards have gone hand in hand, or cheek by jowl, since the days of Fidel Castro’s revolution, but after falling out of favor, facial hair is back -...
Russia Thursday launched an unmanned rocket carrying a life-size humanoid robot that will spend 10 days learning to assist astronauts on the International...
Social media users are fueling a burgeoning appetite for acquiring wild otters and other endangered animals as pets, conservationists say, warning the trend...
British supermarkets are starting to go “nude.”