While China's crackdown in Tibet fills the headlines, the less noticed repression in Xinjiang has the region's Muslim Uighur majority seething
India churns out cutting-edge IT graduates, but to succeed in a global economy, now they're learning the ways of cubicle culture
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
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?
Another brutal summer is only months away, prompting a surge in demand for household solutions to back up electricity supplies
Iraqi immigrants are making new homes in Ireland, but sectarian animosities have traveled with them
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
How the comrades in one rural village took to heart Deng Xiaoping's exhortation "let some people get rich first"
In the southwestern corner of New Mexico, a tiny town plays the role of terrorist haven
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Dazzled by eastern promise, the house of Ferragamo brings its 80th anniversary cavalcade to Shanghai
In the name of "emotional tourism," a Thai hotel invites 50 people to a $300,000 dinner. But before that, the guests must see how the other half lives
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