Under the warm lights of a small Tokyo theater, the first thing the audience notices is softness: tiers of lace, satin bows, bonnet ribbons and bell-shaped skirts in pink, white and black. Then the sc...
Workers and patrons confront uncertainty outside the Kennedy Center as trustees weigh an immediate shutdown. The Kennedy Center may be days from going dark, not because a season has ended, but because...
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian became the public face of a truce challenged by harder-line power centers. For three weeks, Iran’s president could point to a document and argue that diplomacy had ...
President Donald Trump has placed the competition with China at the center of America’s argument over artificial intelligence, signaling that any new guardrails must first pass a geopolit...
A projectile strike on a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz and fresh attacks inside Saudi Arabia have turned a tense energy crisis into a test of how many shocks the global oil system can absorb at once....
A child entering a classroom should not need an escape strategy. Yet in Bukavu, in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the ordinary act of going to school ended in horror. A fire that reportedly...
CNN: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday he would repeal three contentious agricultural laws that sparked more than a year of protests, in a rare apparent climb down ahead of pivota...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani says his government has not pledged to free Taliban prisoners, as stated in a deal reached by the US and the militants. Under the landmark agreement signed on Saturday in...
Anti-government protesters barricaded key streets in the Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, on Monday. The blockades came a day after police demanding better working conditions attacked the army headqua...
The Democratic race is moving south as voters in South Carolina have their say on who should be the party’s White House nominee. We’re still a long way off knowing who will take on Donald ...
Nigerian English words have recently been added to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), but there is still a debate in the country about what constitutes proper English, as the BBC’s Nduka Orjin...
A film by an Iranian director about capital punishment has won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Mohammad Rasoulof was banned from directing in 2017. He produced There Is No Evi...
