Culture & Art In the shadow of Nollywood, filmmakers examine Boko Haram Editor_1 Mar 22, 2021 0 By Adenike Olanrewaju In the moving Nigerian drama ‘The Milkmaid’, Aisha and Zainab are Fulani sisters taken…
Archaeology Bible fragments discovered near Dead Sea first such find in decades Editor_1 Mar 16, 2021 0 By Sara Lemel and Sebastian Engel TEL AVIV - Fragments of an ancient biblical scroll have been discovered in a…
Offbeat Over 3 million people took this course on happiness; here’s what some learned Editor_1 Mar 14, 2021 0 By Molly Oswaks The Yale happiness class, formally known as Psyc 157: Psychology and the Good Life, is one of the…
Culture & Art Italy marks 700 years since Dante’s death with hundreds of events Editor_1 Mar 6, 2021 0 ROME - A global pandemic isn't keeping Italy from celebrating the 700th anniversary of national poet Dante…
Heritage The many cults and religions in pre-Buddhist Sri Lanka Editor_1 Mar 1, 2021 0 By P.K. Balachandran COLOMBO - Before Sri Lanka became predominantly Buddhist following the conversion of the 3rd…
Offbeat Canadian same-sex wedding video sparks debate in Sri Lanka Editor_1 Feb 28, 2021 0 EDMONTON - A Canadian couple's wedding video is going viral in Sri Lanka and sparking conversations about same-sex…
Heritage The Bengalis’ pioneering struggle for language rights Editor_1 Feb 21, 2021 0 By P. K. Balachandran COLOMBO - UNESCO has set February 21 as the International Mother Language Day to stress the…
Offbeat French roosters now crow with the law behind them Editor_1 Jan 24, 2021 0 By Aurelien Breeden PARIS — The crow of a rooster and the ringing of a church bell at dawn. The rumble of a…
RIP Larry King, breezy interviewer of the famous and infamous, dies at 87 Editor_1 Jan 23, 2021 0 By Robert D. Mcfadden Larry King, who shot the breeze with presidents and psychics, movie stars and malefactors —…
Offbeat London museums to remember Trump as giant crying baby and golfer Editor_1 Jan 23, 2021 0 LONDON - Donald Trump has barely made his way out the White House and two London museums are already consigning the…