An ice cream flavor in his honor, a pizza named after him, queues to buy his shirt: For some, Cristiano Ronaldo is as important as the pope.
Doha’s Tawar Mall looks much like any of the other unremarkable shopping centers dotted around Qatar, but tucked away in one of its corners, a tiny cultural revolution is taking place.
A year-old English bulldog has died just weeks after winning the 2018 World's Ugliest Dog contest.
Eight Mexican wolf cubs - a jumbo-size litter - have delighted conservationists fretting over the endangered species once common along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Be it a source of national pride or negative stereotypes, vodka is an integral part of Polish identity.
Decades ago, hundreds of nuns and priests made an extraordinary decision: They agreed to donate their brains upon death to science, hoping to help solve...
Africa’s ancient baobab, with its distinctive swollen trunk and known as the “tree of life,” is under a new and mysterious threat, with some of the largest...
The flamenco strains were so haunting I asked the quintet of 20-somethings playing guitars on the doorstep of a massive, whitewashed centuries-old church if I...
Every night without fail, Paul Blumstein straps on a mask that prevents him from repeatedly waking up, gasping for air.
The World Health Organization has recognized "compulsive sexual behavior" as a mental disorder, but said Saturday it remained unclear if it was an addiction...
During the summer of 1982, I was employed by Catholic Relief Service to serve as their director in Tyre charged with the responsibility to deliver...
In a housing estate in the gritty northern Paris suburb of Bondy, young Adama Wagui shows off the stack of trophies he has accumulated during his budding...
Despite advances in predicting where hurricanes are heading, forecasters are still struggling to determine a crucial factor in deciding emergency measures and...
Australian researchers have uncovered the world’s oldest biological color in the Sahara desert, in a find they said Tuesday helped explain why complex life...
Even during the World Cup, which brought hordes of foreigners to Russia, the capital of Chechnya remained well off the beaten path for most travelers.
If the name Salvador Dali conjures images of melting watches and a conspicuous mustache but not really much else, then a visit to Spain’s “Dali Triangle” will...
Tesla Inc crossed its long-elusive target of producing 5,000 Model 3 cars in a week after several delays, and reaffirmed its positive cash flow and profit...
Toyota's Lexus luxury brand is recalling about 121,000 cars worldwide because of fuel leaks in the engine that can cause fires.
Endless winters, sparse pine trees rising from infertile soil, few sheep and even fewer people: the Baltic island of Faro is not only a natural film set for...
Second-hand fashion, once confined to thrift stores, is outstripping sales growth in the primary luxury goods sector, helping market leader The RealReal...
Summer is the ideal time for cracking open a bottle of rose, but fans of French wine might be thinking twice after millions of bottles were found to contain...
Many football fans knew little or nothing about Russian cuisine before the World Cup, but have tucked into local gastronomy with relish, trying everything...
Fifty-three men slung their partners over their shoulders and hurtled off on an hourlong race in the small Finnish town of Sonkajarvi Saturday, as thousands...
Starbucks will eliminate plastic straws from all of its locations within two years, citing the environmental threat to oceans. The company becomes the largest...
What do you do when this year’s Nobel Literature Prize, the world’s most prestigious accolade of its kind, is postponed because of a sexual assault scandal?...
Fifty years after Evel Knievel so famously wiped out trying to jump the fountain at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, action sports wild man Travis Pastrana will...
The topics of sexual abuse and animal cruelty are dominating this year’s San Fermin festival in Pamplona, which kicks off Friday for nine days and eight...
The Lolomani dwelling, formerly the home of the Ottoman period family of that name, was once an impressive sight in the mountainside town of Gjirokastra in...
Rarely does the demure Paris Couture Week see a standing ovation.
With the aid of a small crane, Borja Saracho lowers five cages loaded with 2,500 bottles of white wine from a fishing boat into the Cantabrian Sea.
With backyard barbecues and fireworks, Americans celebrated Independence Day by participating in time-honored traditions that expressed pride in their...
Music icon Tina Turner was among the notables at the Giorgio Armani Prive display inside the Italian Embassy in Paris’ chic Left Bank.
A grey Ferrari comes to a halt in Warsaw and a young woman emerges.
Guests including Katie Holmes and Kate Bosworth were taken deep inside the inner workings of Christian Dior for the French brand’s nostalgic couture display...
Models strutted past Parisian landmarks, including the green bookstalls that line the river Seine, at Chanel’s fashion show Tuesday, as the luxury label...
Givenchy’s Clare Waight Keller went back to the storied house’s roots in Paris for Sunday’s moving couture homage to house-founder Hubert de Givenchy, who...
Hey, did my congressman really say that?
Fashion powerhouse Dior brushed aside the whims of the Instagram generation with its deliberately low-key new haute couture collection Monday, arguing that...
It is no secret that the French love wine.