Art Helps Afghan Women Struggling with Depression At her home in northern Afghanistan, a 19-year old woman draws her own image. In the drawing, she is covered by a blue burqa and is inside a cage. The woman, named Khushi, is a former university stude...
Fiction Writers Fear the Rise of AI, and See it As a Story to Tell For many book writers, artificial intelligence (AI) is a threat to their jobs and the very idea of creativity. More than 10,000 writers and others supported an open letter about the i...
Recent Record-breaking Mountain Climber Sets New Goal A mountain guide who recently climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains in record time has set a new goal for himself. Tenjen Sherpa of Nepal says he now wants to become the youngest person to clim...
The signs of hip-hop's influence are everywhere. American rapper and music producer Pharrell Williams recently became a creative director for the French fashion company Louis Vuitton. Other hip hop stars, including Dr. Dre, Diddy and Jay-Z, started b...
World Cup Money Is Life-changing for Some Players The players who reached the knockout round of the Women's World Cup received larger individual bonuses than those of the past. The increased earnings can be life-changing for many of the players. FIFA...
Barbie Is Changing the Clothes People Wear If you walk into a clothing store, you are likely to be hit with an explosion of the color pink. The pink wave has been fueled by the release last month of the wildly successful film Barbie. The movie is bas...
Russias Bolshoi Ballet Aims to Perform again in the West 俄罗斯著名芭蕾舞团渴望重返西方舞台 The artistic director of Moscow's state-owned Bolshoi Ballet has promised the group will one day perform in the West again. 莫斯科国有的莫...
In Japan, Silkworms, Crickets, Bugs Are on the Table More restaurants in Japan are offering bugs in their dishes. On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto ate a special lunch of cricket curry and silkworm sashimi, which is usually made with raw...
In Dubai, Gourmet Water Injected with Minerals New kinds of drinks like smoothies, lattes, beers, and cocktails have become popular in recent years. Now a place in Dubai is serving what it claims to be gourmet water. Thirty different kinds of it. The...
Olympic Games organizers in France presented the 2024 Olympic torch that will light the Summer Games in the country a year from now. In the Olympic torch tradition, many people carry the torch in turn from Greece to the current location of the Games....
Russians Can Qualify for Some Paris Olympic Events, Not Others A year before the Paris Olympic Games, officials overseeing many of the sports on the 2024 program have not agreed on how to treat Russian athletes. Increasingly, different governing bodi...
In Hollywood Strike, AIs Part Is Important Labor unions for actors and writers are striking over pay, benefits and job protections. But Artificial intelligence technology has become a big issue in Hollywood's labor fight. AI has introduced a new poin...
For Some, Getting Married Needs to Be an Experience Unlike any Other More couples are asking guests to wear nontraditional clothing to their marriage ceremonies. The result appears to be that many guests are not sure what to think about it and are co...
Actors and Writers in US Begin Second Week of Joint Strike A combined strike by Hollywood actors and screenwriters is entering its second week with no sign of an end to the labor action. For a week, actors including Tina Fey, Kevin Bacon, Kyra Sedgwi...
Barbenheimer: Two Movies, One Day Two of the biggest summer movies are being released on the same day, July 21st, Barbie directed by Greta Gerwig and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer. The release of the movies has gotten a lot of attention on the inte...
