Jerash Camp, Jordan: In a small workshop in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, Halima al-Ankassuri embroiders traditional patterns onto a blue shawl,...
Jerash Camp, Jordan: In a small workshop in a Palestinian refugee camp in Jordan, Halima al-Ankassuri embroiders traditional patterns onto a blue shawl,...
Hong Kong: A collection of French artist Claude Monet's personal belongings, including a pair of round-rimmed wire spectacles, have fetched almost $11 million...
CHENGDU, China, Chinese street barber Xiong Gaowu deftly scrapes a straight razor along the inside of his customer’s eyelid. “You should be gentle,...
Paris: Having adopted hamburgers, Halloween and a host of English words, some in France are worried about the latest cultural import from America:...
Kutama, Zimbabwe: Residents in the Zimbabwean village where Robert Mugabe was born, got married and has a house say he was a great...
Paris: An "unprecedented" trove of sculptures by the brilliant but tragic French artist Camille Claudel are to go under the hammer in Paris...
LONDON: Two years after Britain’s finance minister pledged taxes from sanitary products would go to women’s rights charities, the campaigner who forced his...
Harare: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, 93, who resigned on Tuesday, has a long history of making colourful or controversial remarks during a reign...
Istanbul: A mute Syrian boy, using just body movements, gives a harrowing description of life under the Islamic State group in Syria. A...
Stockholm: A Swedish comedian announced Sunday the launch of a women-only music festival, after the country's largest event was cancelled following a string...
Philadelphia: In 1910, the Mexican people overthrew the corrupt and sclerotic dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, who had ruled the country for decades with...
ABIDJAN: Top cocoa producer Ivory Coast will launch an operation to expel thousands of illegal farmers from the Goin-Debe forest reserve, the West...
NEW YORK: A painting of Christ by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci sold for a record $450 million (380 million euros) at...
Tianjin, China: A futuristic Chinese library has wowed book lovers around the world with its white, undulating shelves rising from floor to ceiling,...
Geneva: An extremely rare 37.3-carat pink diamond goes under the hammer Wednesday as the top offer at Sotheby's jewel sale, after rival auction...
New Delhi: India's art market has emerged from a blue period with a flourish, as prices rise and the world starts to take...
NEW YORK: The maker of Barbie has announced it will sell a doll modeled after Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American fencer who competed in...
Mumbai: Indian fishermen unload their morning catch as sari-clad women carrying buckets on their heads walk past street art that has transformed one...
