Women wearing long wigs and ornate traditional dresses milled around a pebbled courtyard, stopping to snap photos under a ...

For more than 600 years, the people of the Tunpu, fortified villages of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), in Anshun city, Guizhou province, have kept alive customs rooted in a military migration that took ...

Fans of Danmei same-sex romance stories in China say the government is cracking down harder than ever on the popular genre.

The Chinese Communist Party has banned two LGBT dating apps, furthering its efforts to curb what it sees as foreign ...

Surfing has been around for centuries. It is well-known that the ancient Polynesians and Hawaiians were among the first to ever ride the waves, but there are accounts of surfing that go back even ...

It’s a year since Trump’s election, and the liberal commentariat says it doesn’t matter what you call him, so long as you ...

Between 2021 and 2023, COVID-19 dropped from the world’s leading cause of death to the 20th, while life expectancy surpassed pre-pandemic levels in most nations. Since 2010, the global burden ...

The 2025 World Food Forum Youth Action on Green Agri-Heritage is held on Oct. 15 in Rome, Italy.

CHRISTIANITY today is the world’s largest faith — embraced by more than 2 billion people. From open democracies to closed regimes, every continent has been touched by its influence. Yet Christianity ...

Pasta, rajma, candy bars... much of what we eat today was shaped by violence. Three books trace how food changes as borders are redrawn. And the joy, love, resistance that a hearty meal can hold.

From creation myths to political omens, different cultures have had vastly different interpretations of the dramatic natural phenomenon.