Walid al-Aqqad’s Gaza home would be the envy of many an antiquities collector.
Bit by bit, Aleppo’s centuries-old bazaar is being rebuilt as Syrians try to restore one of their historical crown jewels, devastated during years of brutal fighting for control of the city.
Equifax 2017. Marriott 2018. Capital One 2019. Data breaches through hacking attacks are distressingly common these days, and personal details about you can lead to identity theft, such as credit cards and loans in your name.
Is it a bird? A plane? No, it’s a French inventor flying over the English Channel on his hoverboard.
Members of rival Iraqi biker gangs, clad in studded leather and black berets, burst out of their semicircles to break dance, their tattoo-covered arms waving...
Lee Ching-hei runs a pop-up store in Hong Kong.
Tiffany & Co. is launching its first comprehensive jewelry collection for men in October as it seeks to diversify its traditional customer base.
A pair of Nike track shoes from the 1972 Olympic trials has sold for $50,000.
U.S. scientists announced early Friday they have successfully built functional heart parts out of collagen with a 3-D bioprinter, using a breakthrough...
Diet is already a key part of managing diseases like diabetes and hypertension, but new research adds to a growing body of evidence that it could help cancer...
Ziad al-Maamari grew up helping his father build a castle.
The winding road leading into the mountains in Chambouq, above the village of Qobeiyat on the far edge of Akkar overlooking the Syrian border, is pitted from...
Your smartphone is your confidant, your connection to the world - and one of your biggest vulnerabilities.
The first chlamydia vaccine encouragingly triggered an immune response in women during preliminary clinical trials and was found to be safe, researchers said...
Bathed in red neon light, hundreds of prostitutes ply their trade from behind windows in the narrow canal-side streets of Amsterdam - and that’s how they want...
A HBO miniseries featuring Soviet-era nuclear nightmares has sparked global interest in the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and boosted tourism in Lithuania.
If you like gawking at breathtaking sports cars with enormous engines, flowing aerodynamics and expensive carbon-fiber bodies, then you are in the right place...
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).
Researchers in Singapore have invented “smart” clothing they say can boost signals and save battery life on wireless devices such as headphones and smart...
While two U.S. opera houses immediately canceled performances by famed tenor Placido Domingo following sexual harassment allegations, European opera houses...
How do you create a space conducive to creative thinking?
From a cartoon about child workers to an HBO miniseries, Brazil is turning to television and social media to shed light on modern slavery and change attitudes...
Oyster farmers in western France have sacrificed a seafood feast and put a megamollusk weighing 1.44 kilograms back in the water after naming it “Georgette”...
Parisians need no longer go to the beach, in the time-honored August tradition, to hear the plaintive cries of seagulls, but the birds’ growing cacophony is...
As a tour guide specializing in notorious Hollywood deaths, Scott Michaels is well aware of America’s morbid fascination with the dark side of Tinseltown.
In 2008, Peter Bellerby set out to buy his father a high quality handmade globe as an 80th birthday present.
The Italian tomato is prized around the world, but its reputation has soured in recent years over reports of Mafia infiltration, slave labor and toxic fires...
Do video games trigger violent behavior?
A faint waft of malt drifts over the walls of the tranquil Mount St. Bernard Abbey in central England as brewmaster monks are hard at work within.
The overlapping crises of climate change, mass species extinction, and an unsustainable global food system are on a collision course toward what might best be...
Nidia Silva had never realized her dream of swimming with dolphins until a Miami NGO gave her a pair of virtual reality glasses as part of an experimental...
In the heart of the Sudanese capital, crowds are drawn by mouthwatering aromas to Syrian eateries that line an upscale Khartoum neighborhood.
Go bold. Stay practical. Think long-term.
Wearing a crown of flowers, “Cleopatra” the donkey delighted villagers in central Morocco by bucking the trend to clinch top prize in a beauty pageant.
The clock strikes 10 p.m. on a Friday night when the “Parent Patrol” enters a popular playground in suburban Reykjavik.
In a classroom workshop, students watch a video of a man and woman meeting in a nightclub. The two drink, laugh, dance and kiss.
Every time young fashion designer Hawa Adan Hassan makes a new gown for a paying customer, she also makes her dreams come true.
At school in Tecate in the 1950s, a city sitting on Mexico’s border with the United States, Josefina Meza was welcomed by a chorus of children’s chants in a...
Sewing makes a welcome change from sex for the 20 women who escaped years of forced prostitution to stitch together a new life in Spain’s second city.