OP-ED. With the Arabic language as the guest of honor at the Avignon Festival, running from July 5 to 26, playwright Mohamed ...

His Majesty spoke of the thousand years of shared history and culture between the people of Britain and France during his ...

The word Jagannath has also lent itself to another English word, 'jaconet'. Jaconet is a lightweight, cotton fabric that originally came from Puri.

The parents of your child’s spouse. Your child’s in-laws. OK, this is a Yiddish word, but one that, like a lot of Yiddish words, has poked its way into English because it fills a gap.

COLUMN. With the US president saying he has 'nothing to offer' Iran and Tehran refusing to negotiate with Israel's main ally, ...

Not something you see every day: Santa abseiling down a 100-metre-tall building in Berlin. He claims he was retrieving a sack of presents which had fallen from his sleigh. The mishap meant ...

Atlético Nacional was the first to be linked with interest in Dylan Borrero, but in recent hours América de Cali has emerged, ...

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Today's writers are Cohen Wiwi, Marianne Darr-Norman, Ezra Caplinger and Georgean Johnson-Coffey of Fort Wayne, Ralph Klinker of Monroeville and Harlen Hildebrandt of New Haven ...

The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. That's what world leaders who are gathering for the start of the World Economic Forum are being told this week. The charity Oxfam says ...