Census workers going door to door in Egypt’s teeming neighborhoods and crowded towns are discovering a new country – of more than 20 million people born in the last decade alone.
Afghan women are redrawing the media landscape in the deeply conservative country with the launch of a new magazine and a television channel, risking the anger of extremists by giving their gender a glamorous voice.
Hulking excavators claw at riverbanks on Indonesia’s Sumatra island in the hunt for gold, transforming what was once a rural idyll into a scarred, pitted moonscape.
In a hidden room in a house near Argentina’s capital, police believe they have found the biggest collection of Nazi artifacts in the country’s history, including a bust relief of Adolf Hitler, magnifying glasses inside elegant boxes with swastikas and even a macabre medical device used to measure head size.
Heat was in the air on the first day of Paris Fashion Week menswear collections that showcased next year’s spring-summer designs.
On a balmy, breezy afternoon in south London, dozens of people tinker on secondhand bicycles inside a small workshop, preparing to give them to the several...
Huddling close to his mother, a baby Asian elephant has faced the public for the first time at the Moscow zoo.
It’s a rubbish job, but someone has to do it.
Being born without fingers can be tough for any child.
Russia's state communications watchdog threatened Friday to ban the Telegram messaging app, saying the company behind the service had failed to submit company...
The first 16 graduates from the Lebanese American University’s inaugural fashion class showed off their final year collections with a catwalk show that...
Tony Bou Safi begins his day at 4 a.m., selecting produce to stock his grocery, before driving back in Geitawi neighborhood to prepare for the morning hustle...
A Japanese university is planning what it says will be the world’s first research center devoted to ninja – the black clad assassins known for secrecy and...
Family and supporters Sunday honored an 85-year-old Nepali man who died trying to regain his title as the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, while...
One of the many curiosities of living in Lebanon during the Civil War had to do with how we got our first impressions of cars, especially certain rare...
If you’ve been following the collector car market recently, you may have noticed that prices seem to be going down again.
In the years leading up to the return of Hong Kong to China by Britain in 1997, thousands of residents fearful of the future under Beijing jumped ship to...
The global obesity problem now affects one in 10 people in the world, it is rising in countries rich and poor, and in many countries it is increasing faster...
A fresh breeze buffeted Italy’s fashion capital during the second day of Milan Fashion Week Sunday, both literally, bringing relief from the June heat, and...
Pop diva Beyonce and her rap mogul husband Jay Z have welcomed twins, according to U.S. media reports on the two new members of music’s royal family that...
No modern navigation instrumentation guided a Polynesian voyaging canoe as it followed the horizon during a three-year journey around the globe.
Seyran Ates’ vision of a liberal mosque where all Muslims can pray together – women and men, Sunni and Shiite, straight and gay – is almost a reality, and the...
It’s the time of year for what can be a dreaded expedition: Buying a swimsuit. But for women looking for a shopping experience that includes more size...
Muslim countries are turning into fast-growing markets for chocolate, and one Asian country is betting more people around the world are going to want candy...
With a cigarette in one hand and a muddy machete in the other, Brazilian grandmother Maria Nobre de Oliveira thinks high-end chocolate will help end the...
Typewriter enthusiasts gather at an Albuquerque restaurant to experiment with vintage Smith Coronas.
Adonna Ebrahimi is stretched out on her yoga mat, struggling to maintain a cobra pose – and her composure – as a couple of baby goats do a balancing act on...
Leggy dancers in tight shorts, bottles of Moet Champagne and flashy cars feature in Nigerian pop icon Wizkid’s bling-bling music videos.
Long-term, daily use of aspirin to prevent blood clots in very elderly patients leads to an increased risk of serious or fatal internal bleeding, researchers...
Snapping their heads from side to side, marching into the roads in close-fitting blue uniforms and black heels, the “traffic ladies” who marshal vehicles at...
Ubisoft’s blockbuster “Assassin’s Creed” video game is heading for Egypt, taking the serial’s storyline back to an ancient world and overhauling play to...
An elderly woman leans over to smell a lush flowerbed of lavender in sprawling gardens surrounding an imposing early 20th-century palace in a pastoral corner...
Fifty years after Mildred and Richard Loving’s landmark legal challenge shattered the laws against interracial marriage in the U.S., some couples of different...
A top-notch research center that brought together Iran, Israel and other Mideast antagonists is launching operations this fall in hopes of boosting scientific...
Ken Shefveland’s body was swollen with cancer, treatment after treatment failing until doctors gambled on a radical approach: They removed some of his immune...
A giant panda cub was born in a Tokyo zoo Monday, but its gender, weight and even whether it will survive are uncertain.
Dozens of pole dancers performed on ornate neon floats at a festival in Taipei Saturday in celebration of one of the island’s more eyebrow raising cultural...
She is a 12-year-old schoolgirl who aspires to become a doctor.
The aroma is so extraordinary it’s like “a punch in your mouth” says Luqi Wu, one of several Chinese businessmen standing in a cellar in southwestern Spain...