Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera, the work will be based on the accounts of mothers who traveled 3,000 miles to get their loved ones back Teresa Nowakowski September 13, 2023…
DERNA, Libya (AP) — Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams…
Makeup may seem like a modern invention, one that has developed into a multi-billion-dollar industry, but cosmetics have been around for longer than we might think. Even flamingos have been…
After the public got a newsreel glimpse of what the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki did to the Japanese, the footage lay dormant for more than two decades…
The mission of the U.N. World Food Programme is simple: make the world more stable and more peaceful by feeding the hungry. In recent months, though, it has had to…
Venice is known for its maze-like canals, Renaissance buildings and gondola rides. But what makes this picturesque city so famous is under threat due to human-caused climate change. World leaders…
The Los Angeles City Council on Tuesday voted to name a street intersection in memory of Mahsa Amini, whose death in the custody of the morality police in Iran nearly…
The panel estimated that 27 private universities have had their legal status revoked under President Daniel Ortega. A United Nations panel warned that the human rights situation in Nicaragua has…
The U.N. rights chief accused Afghanistan's ruling Taliban on Tuesday of a "shocking level of oppression" of women and girls and said human rights in the country were in a…
As ocean temperatures rise, single mothers and divorced women in Zanzibar switch from seaweed to sea sponge farming to stay afloat. As a gentle morning breeze blows across the Zanzibar…