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The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Istanbul-based journalist Ruth Michaelson about unrest in Syria amid clashes ...
Brother Ali hit fame for his hard-hitting critique of racism and inequality in the US. His rap songs mix the political with the personal. Today, the rapper is in Istanbul on a spiritual journey as a ...
A Chinese university has expelled a female student over her allegedly dating a foreigner. The move has sparked debate on Chinese social media about gender bias and nationalism. Also, the death of a ...
A Chinese university recently announced that it expelled a female student over her allegedly dating a foreigner. The story has sparked a conversation on Chinese social media about gender bias and ...
Earlier this year, an independent book shop just outside the Danish capital Copenhagen received five big boxes of books. There was just one problem: The books were supposed to go to Nairobi in Kenya.
More than 15 years after their last performance together, Britpop legends Oasis have reunited with the band playing to packed-out stadiums in their hometown of Manchester this week. But thousands of ...
Felix Baumgartner rose to fame in 2012 after becoming the first person to skydive through the stratosphere, breaking the sound barrier with nothing but his body. Yesterday, he died in a paragliding ...
When you call a 1-800 number, you’ll often end up speaking to someone in the Philippines. Call centers are a huge part of the country’s economy, employing more than a million people. In recent years, ...
It’s part sport, part art, part political statement. A US-based arts collective called InDecline stages soccer games around the world where the ball is a life-like replica of the head of some ...
Riccardo Baldini, an Italian concert pianist living in Canada, was paralyzed from the waist down six years ago when a cluster of blood vessels burst. He could still play the keys, but he also needed ...
In an archive in London, writer Elizabeth Lovatt came across a logbook used in the 1990s by volunteers of a London-based helpline called the Lesbian Line. It was run out of a UK charity called London ...
PEPFAR was launched in 2003 to stop the spread of HIV in Africa. Now, although some funding remains for the program, many of ...