Category: International

You’ve probably seen the headline somewhere: “Scientists have found the woman from whom every human alive today descends.” It sounds biblical, almost mythical—Mitochondrial Eve, the …

In April 1914, inside the locked psychiatric ward of Heidelberg University, a photographer captured one of the most haunting images in the history of outsider …

Paul Bogle led the last large scale armed Jamaican rebellion for voting rights and an end to legal discrimination and economic oppression against African Jamaicans.  …

Shanghai, circa 1870. A lone man stands in the dusty street of the foreign concession, his head and hands locked inside a massive square wooden …

Kirk Douglas, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants who rose from an impoverished childhood to become a silver screen legend whose decades-long career included the …

F**ken eagles are majestic bloody beasts. While the lion rules the land as the king of the jungle, we’re pretty bloody certain that eagles are …

The terrible image of her mutilated face brought home the Taliban’s savagery. But today Bibi Aisha, the Afghan girl whose nose and ears were cut …

If you’re like me, summer means one thing: fresh sweet corn straight from the garden (or the farmer’s market). But what do you do when …

In a small village in Bali, a man was stunned to find a tiger sitting on his second-floor balcony. Terrified and confused, he demanded the …