The Japanese rice wine called sake is made using ancient brewing methods. They date back more than a thousand years. Junichiro Ozawa, the 18th-generation leader of Ozawa Brewery, founded in 1702, hopes sake-brewing will win recognition as a UNESCO In...
Charbel Samuel Aoun is a working artist in the Middle Eastern nation of Lebanon. As the Israeli military launches a deadly attack against the militant group Hezbollah in his home country, Aoun asks, Does art still have a place in such a crisis? Leban...
Technology company Microsoft is working with the Roman Catholic Church to create a detailed, digital version of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. The project aims to give people a new way to experience the famous building, which sits in the Catho...
World War I officially ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles in France on June 28, 1919. However, fighting had stopped seven months earlier with an armistice, or an agreement to stop fighting, between the Allied nations and Germany on th...
In South Korea's capital of Seoul, Bukchon Hanok Village's narrow winding alleyways date back hundreds of years to the Joseon Dynasty. The area has become a popular place to visit, especially after appearing in a television show about 10 years ago. F...
One of the biggest names in America's music industry - Quincy Jones - has died at the age of 91. A family statement said Jones passed away Sunday night surrounded by family members at his home in the Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles. Jones is know...
The hug between the two women lasted a long time. An 85-year-old woman put her arms around a younger woman she had not seen for months. She asked her a series of questions in a song-like way. How are you? How is your husband? How are the kids? How ar...
Brazilian artist and activist Mundano recently used some unusual substances to paint a picture on a building in Sao Paulo. The paint included materials, such as ash and mud, collected from natural disasters. Mundano created the mural to highlight the...
October 31 is Halloween. But many Americans have been preparing for the holiday for weeks. And businesses are hoping for good profits from Halloween purchases. The National Retail Federation (N.R.F.) is the largest U.S. trade group representing selle...
Baseball has long called its championship the World Series although it only involves teams playing in the United States and Canada. It started in 1903 when the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League beat the Boston Americans of the American League...
On a film set in China, a 69-year-old actor is playing the part of a wealthy family leader. In Grandma's Moon, actor Zhu Jian celebrates his birthday with a costly dinner party. And he is about to get a big surprise: One of the workers at the party i...
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza will open a limited number of exhibits about ancient Egypt starting this week. The limited opening will be a test run of the still-unannounced official opening of the museum, officials said. Starting on October 16, 4...
Takosangba Pongen could see until he was 14 years old. He has been blind for the 13 years since. But, nobody would know that by watching Pongen perform on the piano. Pongen said playing the piano helped him after he lost his sight. It opened a window...
A family in Italy hopes to prove that a painting found long ago on the island of Capri is the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The family has been gathering scientific evidence to support the claim. It wants officials of the Picasso estate to co...
South Korean writer Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee said her work confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Born in 1970, Han Kang is the first South Korea...
