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A Czech entrepreneur is ready to mass-produce insects and turn them into a marketable, protein-rich food staple. Now he just needs buyers.
Catering specifically to women – particularly in rural areas – is not only good for gender equality, it is good for business.
People who have romantic relationships with both men and women are often the target of prejudice and discrimination — from all sides.
The Uttarakhand floods reflected the damage we had dealt to the fragile Himalayan ecosystem. Five years later, we may are even closer to an irreversible catastrophe.
With facial recognition cameras and Big Data, the Chinese leadership is pushing its penchant for surveillance to new heights.
Meet the Italians driven by a sense of history and humanity to identify the refugees and migrants who have died trying to cross the Mediterranean.
AUGSBURG — One moment you’re the globetrotting head of a corporation with an army of subordinates to execute your every order, the next you’re behind bars and required to file requests for items as banal as toilet paper. While jailing executives, particularly those of global companies, is an almost unheard of occurrence in Germany, that’s just what happened to Audi Chief Executive Officer Rupert Stadler last month. One of the few other corporate leaders to suffer a similar fate was Thomas Middelhoff, and he has some words of advice to adapt to the circumstances. “You need humility, otherwise you’ll crack,” […]
-Analysis- Many of the Colombian players broke down in tears after coming up just short in last night’s World Cup match against England. Still, they can hold their heads high, and not just because of the valiant effort they put forth. The “truth” of the matter is they got robbed — at least according to […]
The Catholic Church may have only itself to blame for failing to attract young people.
The Honduran island of Utila, in the Caribbean Sea, is using the copious amounts of trash that wash ashore to build roads.
Lewis Hine was an American sociologist and photographer, best remembered for his images of immigrants arriving in Ellis Island, and for shining a light on the brutal reality of poor children forced to work.
PARIS — Block construction, robotics and basic coding — all in one package, and especially designed for a non-tech-savvy public. That, in a nutshell, is the idea behind Mindstorms, which toymaker Lego first introduced two decades ago to teach people (children primarily) about programming, but in a fun way — by creating educational robots that walk, talk, etc. For the first versions of Mindstorms, the two Lego engineers who came up with the toy — Gaute Munch and and Erik Hansen — worked closely with researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Munch is now director of advanced technology at […]
The bulk of Mexico’s 122 million people remain mired in poverty, and with little chance to escape it. Even the middle classes struggle to be upwardly mobile. Food for thought, for incoming Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
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Early To The Aqueduct’s Birthday
When my wife and I toured northwestern Spain in the early 1970s, we made sure to visit the Roman aqueduct of Segovia. Two years later would mark its 2,000th birthday.
In the southern city of El Hamma, young Tunisians attempt to emigrate all the time for a dangerous journey across the Mediterranean. One recent tragedy left dozens dead.
Police and pro-government paramilitaries have killed more than 200 people — including a 14-month-old boy — since a wave of anti-Ortega protests began in mid April.
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Watch: OneShot – Helen Keller
She was born with her sight and hearing on June 27, 1880. Soon after, an illness left Helen Keller deaf and blind for life.
NEW DELHI — The ban on highly hazardous pesticides (HHPs) currently being debated in India will not only protect the environment and improve the public health but will also achieve another rarely acknowledged goal: a rapid and major reduction in the number of Indians dying from suicide. The Supreme Court, which is currently deliberating the case challenging the government’s delay in banning HHPs identified by the Anupam Verma Committee, has a major role to play. The case emerged following a public interest litigation by Kavitha Kuruganti and others filed in 2017. Statistics on suicide are notoriously unreliable due to stigma […]
A marginalized Muslim community wants to convert an old slaughterhouse into a multi-purpose housing and events space. But don’t call it a mosque.
BOGOTA — “Our grandparents knew our territory well, its sacred and productive places, but also the risks we assumed if we did not use resources appropriately….” These are the words of José Zafiama, a teacher of the Uitoto indigenous people and member of the Azicatch Indigenous organization, which brings together peoples in the Predio Putumayo […]
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A Balinese Basket Riddle
Can you guess what is traditionally kept under these woven bamboo baskets, on the Indonesian island of Bali? I’ll give you a hint: In French, they go “Cocorico“!
PARIS — How do we decide what is the world’s top museum? Its size, prestige, collection, the number of visitors — and the way it showcases its brand. The Louvre remains champion. The latest music video from the world’s most famous musical couple, Jay-Z and Beyoncé, is shot amid the museum’s timeless masterpieces and along […]
MOSCOW — Nicolas Maduro has been reelected as Venezuela’s president for a new six-year term. Alexei Kolesnikov in the Moscow-based independent magazine The New Times looks at international reaction to the election, specifically as it relates to Russia: “Last month’s election of Maduro was clearly flawed and not recognized as legitimate by neither the country’s […]
PARIS — Central American migrant parents and children are reuniting in Texas. After being stranded off the coast of Italy, the Aquarius ship has now safely docked in the Spanish port of Valencia and the dozens of migrants have been cared for and asylum requests submitted. But even if the waters have calmed and the […]
Authorities seized 701 kilograms of cocaine on a ship in the port of Oran. The record haul points to a growing network linking South America to Europe via Algeria.
Our new OneShot proves that ghosts are real: Moe Zorayi has photographic evidence from Afghanistan … Listen to the award-winning Iranian-American photographer tell the story behind this powerful photograph. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/embed/8eZ73EKGRyE expand=1] Burqa Women in White (© Moe Zorayi/OneShot) OneShot is a new digital format to tell the story of a single photograph in an immersive one-minute video. Follow OneShot:
With its mineral resources and cheap labor, the country has significant potential for growth, but economic openness could undermine its dictatorship.
Ince, a social democrat, is now the opposition’s leading presidential candidate. With support from Kurdish voters, he may even force a runoff.
RAFAH — It has been one month since the Rafah Border Crossing was opened, marking the longest window in which Gaza residents have been permitted to leave and reenter their besieged territory since 2013. What was initially purported to be a four-day opening was extended on May 17, when President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that […]
Colombia’s next president may deepen divisions in his country and align Bogota with the belligerent postures of U.S. President Trump.
Indians are wild for the World Cup, even if their men’s team has yet to participate. And they’ve got no qualms about going all out for other country’s team.
The chilling stories of migrant children being torn from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border now have their first visual and audio record.
Our political leaders are woefully inefficient and too often dishonest. So maybe we should let machines decide policy instead.
Baby Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials have very different needs and expectations regarding workspaces. And yet, in many companies they’re expected to work side-by-side.
Migrants have begun to live in an informal camp 70 miles from Belgrade, hoping to start a new life westward in Europe.
Crackdowns on immigration are one more sign that the small but influential northern European nation is now on the front edge of more sinister trends.
-Analysis- PARIS — A historic, surreal handshake between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. A G7 summit in Canada that officially confirmed the rift between Europe and the United States on international trade. And, between these two events, Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping and Iran’s Hassan Rouhani gathered for the […]
Colombians love their carne. But in the capital city, there are plenty of options too for top-end, meat-free dining.
BEIJING — The exhibition was called “Secret,” and opened in the Wuhan Art Museum in April. And what was in the show? The personal information of the 346,000 citizens of the central Chinese city of Wuhan that the artist Deng Yufeng had bought on the black market. Previously treated with a special chemical, certain parts […]