BEIJING — The message is the same to China‘s civil servants, party members, employees of state-owned enterprises: show more restraint. With Chinese national debt continuing to rise, the government ...

If you’ve been to the UK in recent years, chances are you might have stumbled across a church that had been turned into a pub or a home, and thought to yourself “Oh, how quaint!” And indeed, across ...

Nixon is not alone on this front Keystone Press Agency/ZUMA PARIS — “Personally, I count the number of potatoes on each plate before serving my boyfriend…” Manon let out an embarrassed laugh, but the ...

GAZA CITY — The 1967 Arab-Israeli war ended in defeat for “revolutionary” and “progressive” Arab regimes — according to the terms of that time. Despite the great, bitter and surprising defeat that ...

BARCELONA — In 1976, Barcelona’s General Metropolitan Plan (PGM) was approved as a framework for the city’s urban planning. But the city’s issues back then were different than what it faces today: ...

In Zurich, Addicts can use drugs they have brought with them in the pressure room under controlled conditions. Boris Roessler/DPA/ZUMA ZURICH — What makes this room remarkable is not what’s present ...

PARIS — There is a new bill before the French National Assembly that calls for “reinforcing the respect of the principles of the Republic,” and fight against Islamist “separatism.” We already know ...

ZURICH – In the small Pakistani community of Bhati Dilwan, a former village councilor says children are being sickened by filthy water. Who’s to blame? He says it’s bottled water-maker Nestlé, which ...

LAS VEGAS — Horse riding is all fine and well, but rodeos are definitely something else. Of course, seen from France, the cowboy is a very exotic character — a rugged stereotype smelling of beast and ...

The world’s most famous secret agent is turning 50 – the James Bond film franchise is marking five decades since the October 5, 1962 release of Dr. No, the first movie of the series produced by London ...

“It was like a hammer to the head. Vittorio had been planning to return to Italy. We only heard an hour ago, one of his friends called to tell us what happened. It seems they kidnapped him around 10 o ...

VATICAN CITY — In the end, everything can be understood from the faces of two cardinals on St. Peter’s balcony waiting for Pope Leo XIV to step outside: there was the glum expression of the cardinal ...