Stocks, bonds and commodities? Old hat.
Feeling frustrated and stressed out? Brazilians now have a place to vent their anger and fury in the newly opened "Rage Room.
German two-piece rock band Milliarden have turned a van into a club where they stage gigs for one fan at a time as a way of reaching music-lovers during the pandemic.
A completely digital London Fashion Week kicked off Friday, with designers hoping to entice trend-followers from the comfort of their homes with their latest creations.
Earth had its quietest period in decades during 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic significantly reduced human activity and its impact on the planet's crust,...
A Tunisian entrepreneur growing edible flowers says she is surprised by the appetite for her homegrown product in the North African country and hopes to see a...
In a Lebanon textile workshop, Umm Omar recalled making school uniforms and holiday garments -- before surging coronavirus cases forced her into the grim...
Iran's millions-strong legion of gamers revel in online worlds, but they have to fight daily real-life obstacles imposed by US sanctions in their quest to...
The U.S. government on Saturday authorized Johnson & Johnson's single-dose COVID-19 vaccine, enabling millions more Americans to be vaccinated in the coming...
A single dose of Pfizer and BioNtech's COVID-19 vaccine cuts the number of asymptomatic infections and could significantly reduce the risk of transmission of...
The state of Lebanon’s wine industry has previously been assessed to be in dire straits thanks to the current depth of crises facing the country.
The belly of the Emirates plane that touched down in Dubai early Sunday from Brussels was stuffed with precious cargo: tens of thousands of doses of the...
Timothy Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, says Australian plans to make digital giants pay for...
They are the annual journeys of late winter and early spring: Factory workers in China heading home for the Lunar New Year; American college students going on...
Global air passenger traffic plunged by an unprecedented 66 percent in 2020 due to travel restrictions imposed over the Covid-19 pandemic, an industry group...
South Korean automaker Hyundai Motor Co launched its Ioniq 5 midsize crossover on Tuesday, the first in a planned family of electric vehicles (EV) that it...
Norway became the first country in the world where electric cars accounted for more than 50 percent of new registrations in 2020, according to figures...
Coronavirus-related limits on access to Bourbon Street, shuttered bars and frigid weather all prevented what New Orleans usually craves at the end of Mardi...
The Year of Undying Hope: Lebanon Heating Up, Not Burning
The notecards poking from bouquets rushing out of a Chicago florist all carry similar messages: "looking forward to celebrating in person.
In Dubai, known for its luxury haunts and parties, Lindsey knows she has reasons to be happy.
France’s government wants to set the age of sexual consent at 15 and make it easier to punish long-ago child sexual abuse, amid growing public pressure and a...
Nothing says social distancing quite like Dubai's RoboCafe, where robots have replaced their human overlords.
Women in Kuwait are defying conservative norms and a culture of "shame" to speak out against harassment for the first time, in a social media campaign sparked...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday he had to lose more weight when he met voters receiving their COVID-19 vaccination.
Sadistic teachers and murderous levels of competition: from "Black Swan" to "Tiny Pretty Things" the world of ballet seems a place fit only for psychopaths if...
Yasmina El Habbal long dreamed of giving birth to a daughter and planned to name her Ghalia, Arabic for "precious.
French President Emmanuel Macron was so determined to hold his own umbrella at a rain-dampened event outside the Elysee Palace on Wednesday that he shooed...
From the outside, the building seems just one of the many in central Baghdad that are decaying from years of misuse - silent, windows shut.
Twelve bottles of Bordeaux wine and dozens of vine shoots are back at home in southwest France after spending months on the International Space Station (ISS)...
The teacher who created the recycled wool mittens that US Sen. Bernie Sanders wore to the presidential inauguration is partnering with the Vermont Teddy Bear...
Boris Czajka, a 32-year-old driver with a Paris ride-hailing service, now has a new category of clients because of the COVID-19 pandemic: people who use taxis...
Kim Jones' debut collection for Fendi as a womenswear designer tapped the bohemian, literary world of Virginia Woolf on Wednesday, bringing bookish glamour to...
Using crutches, Palestinian Mohamed Aliwa leaps from one concrete slab to another, determined that his missing leg won't stop him doing parkour, a sport that...
Dubai restaurants have begun offering discounts to customers who have been inoculated against coronavirus, amid a vaccination drive as the emirate seeks to...
A devoted dog has spent days waiting outside a hospital in northern Turkey where her sick owner was receiving treatment.
A single Powerball ticket sold in Maryland is the winner of an estimated $731.1 million jackpot, the first to get the top prize in months.
Foreigners caught not wearing face masks on the Indonesian resort island of Bali are being subject to an unusual punishment: push-ups.