JERUSALEM: As Orthodox Jews worldwide conclude a grueling marathon of daily Talmud study, a growing number of Israeli women have joined the effort,...
JERUSALEM: As Orthodox Jews worldwide conclude a grueling marathon of daily Talmud study, a growing number of Israeli women have joined the effort,...
US linguists on Friday chose "they" as their word of the decade, recognizing the growing use of third-person plural pronouns as a singular...
Tokyo: A celebrated Japanese sushi businessman, nicknamed "Tuna King", paid $1.8 million for a giant tuna at New Year's auction at Tokyo's main...
Paris: Paris Opera has lost more than 12 million euros ($13.3 million) in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto...
Cairo: In an era of on-screen entertainment,a simple glove puppet named Aragoz still lures Egyptian audiences with comic sketches showing how wits and...
After more than 60 years spent sealed up in a library storage facility, about 1,000 letters written by poet T.S. Eliot to confidante...
Berlin: One of the world's most celebrated opera directors, Germany's Harry Kupfer, has died at the age of 84 in Berlin, his agency...
NEW YORK: Gertrude Himmelfarb, the matriarch of one of the right’s most prominent families and a scholar of Victorian England who argued forcefully...
The next decade could see growing demand for behavioral scientists, data analysts, upcycled clothing designers and even digital detox consultants. Brexit, climate change,...
Toronto: Toronto, Canada's biggest city, is known for a few things: the iconic CN Tower, the ice Hockey Hall of Fame, great food...
BOSTON: In the throes of the Cold War, the Soviet Union was planning to test a massive nuclear bomb in the Arctic Circle....
Washington: Just steps from the US Capitol, the Newseum's gleaming glass-and-steel structure has for over a decade been a shining symbol for the...
Zagreb: For those struggling to piece together the black holes of a boozy night, a one-of-a-kind museum in Zagreb is offering up some...
BOGOTA, Colombia: On a vacant grassy lot squeezed between several smoggy highways lies the property where Colombia’s government hopes to build a large...
LONDON: Author J.K. Rowling became the latest person to be "cancelled" on Friday in a row over transgender rights after the action signifying...
Los Angeles: During a decade as a janitor at a US border station, Tom Kiefer gathered the trash left behind by thousands of...
Wuzhen, China: An actress playing US espionage whistleblower Edward Snowden imitates a gun with her hand, aims it at a security camera, and...
Jakarta: Anwar bin Sholeh had something to cheer when he showed up at a Jakarta training centre to practice pencak silat -- the...
