Paris

Video: Baseball à la française

Baseball's popularity in France has lagged behind basketball's, but could that be changing?

China's Last Hunters Face an Uncertain Future

Among the Oroqen people of northern China, an ancient way of life is being lost in a flurry of assimilation

Damascus

How to Buy an Oriental Rug

Lessons in navigating the markets of the Middle East

Khotan

The Other 'Tibet'

While China's crackdown in Tibet fills the headlines, the less noticed repression in Xinjiang has the region's Muslim Uighur majority seething

Bangalore

Dale Carnegie Comes to India

India churns out cutting-edge IT graduates, but to succeed in a global economy, now they're learning the ways of cubicle culture

Fraser Island

Free the Dingoes, Cage the Humans

The residents of a small Australian island have been getting dangerously friendly with the local wild dogs. To prevent tragedies, the authorities want to fence the humans in

Branksome

Video: Pay What (You Think) It's Worth

A restaurant in the south of England has taken the radical step of allowing customers to pay what they wish for their food. Can it possibly work?

New Delhi

Who's Got the Power?

Another brutal summer is only months away, prompting a surge in demand for household solutions to back up electricity supplies

Dublin

Ireland's Sunni-Shi'ite Divide

Iraqi immigrants are making new homes in Ireland, but sectarian animosities have traveled with them

Mexico City

A Vodka Tonic for Mexico's Loss?

Absolut sparks a furor with an ad invoking Mexico's claim to much of the western United States. But Mexicans are happier to earn dollars, rather than pesos there

Huaxi

The Richest Reds in China

How the comrades in one rural village took to heart Deng Xiaoping's exhortation "let some people get rich first"

Playas

The Town That Terror Saved

In the southwestern corner of New Mexico, a tiny town plays the role of terrorist haven

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