International

Drug addiction in the most underdeveloped province of Pakistan has forced its women to come out in the open and fight the menace. The situation reached a tipping point in March when about a dozen […]

Nature has delivered a rare phenomenon. Three triplets, identical baby girls, have made headlines in Argentina for being what doctors have said one-in-200-million occurrence. They are now safe and sound at home with their parents. […]

Freelance Indian journalist Rajeev Sharma has been arrested for allegedly passing secret defense information to his Chinese handlers, for which he was paid $40,000 laundered through shell companies. The Delhi Police’s Special Cell, in a bid to […]

NEFUD DESERT, Saudi Arabia — A large group of mysterious, rectangular-shaped stone structures in the northwest Saudi Arabia are far older than the Egyptian pyramids and the British Stonehenge, and were likely used to perform […]

Pakistan’s government approval to produce industrial hemp could result in a billion-dollar market. The country has pushed for the development of a cannabis-based economy to improve its foreign exchange position to tackle economic challenges. The […]

Filmmaker Ivan Ayr is on cloud nine despite the anxiety he’s feeling. After all, the former software developer turned filmmaker has had his sophomore film screened at the recently concluded Venice International Film Festival. Ayr’s […]

Recent arrests and alleged assaults against women by state agents in Zimbabwe have again brought international attention to the country’s long history of violence against women. On July 31, award-winning Zimbabwean novelist Tsitsi Dangarembga and […]

Political controversies are threatening to derail Facebook’s plans of building a business empire in India. India has the highest number of Facebook users  — 290 million — and yet only 20 percent of the country’s […]

Chennai, known as the “Detroit of India” because of the many international carmakers that have factories there, is facing a water crisis. The city of 7 million on the Bay of Bengal in eastern India, […]