Former Midnight Oil lead singer Peter Garrett, now Australia's environment minister, races to the rescue of the Southern Cassowary, a creature that does a fair job of protecting itself
For the thirtysomethings that surfed the crest of Europe's economic boom, the downturn is a new and anxious experience
Their country may have some of the world's biggest oil reserves, but Iraqis are struggling to fill their tanks
Paris Plage turns two miles of the Seine into a white sand beach every year, but not all Parisians are celebrating
After seven years of anticipation, residents come to terms with a city transformed
Under apartheid, South Africa's Chinese were excluded as non-white. Then, the post-apartheid government excluded them as non-black, until they fought back
Florence wants to make amends for exiling Italy's most famous poet seven centuries ago. But one of Dante's descendants is not impressed
As the price of food and fuel soars, the divide between rich and poor in India is widening
Video: Cairenes find their health threatened by dangerously high noise levels
How one Yemeni sheik and his volunteer organization are fighting tribal gun culture and Islamic extremism
Conservatives are up in arms over Mexico City legalizing abortion and same-sex unions. But leftist politicians believe the government's social conservatism could be its downfall
When it comes to the World Championship of the French-language version of the erudite board game, Senegal is the team to beat