Gunmen have killed at least 20 people in an attack in a gold mining village in Nigeria's northwestern Zamfara state, residents and Amnesty International said.

The world's largest wooden structure has been completed. Aptly named the Grand Ring, it takes the form of a massive circular ...

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In his cozy workshop behind his D.C. home, contemporary kumiko craftsman David Gootnick, a Craft Show featured artist, uses the raw material of his practice: a five-foot-long, two-inch-thick plank of ...

Designed by Tokyo-based architect Yuko Nagayama, the project makes a bold statement of empowerment and sustainability ...

What are the hallmarks of a resilient, balanced, long-term happiness? Traditional Japanese wisdom offers insights.

Standing beside a sleepy village in Ukraine’s central Kirovohrad Oblast, the Zavalivskiy mine lies beneath layers of brown ...

Periods including “fish emerge from the ice” in mid-February and “rainbows hide” in late November offer a framework for ...

“It looks like it will die,” Nishibori said of the cherry tree, “but it’s not going to die. The next spring, there will be ...

The former imperial capital is both the symbol of Japan's temples and geishas and of globalized overtourism. And yet, blocks ...

64 years ago, a man born in a tiny Russian village to a carpenter and a dairy farmer spent 108 minutes looking down at Earth. Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, then 27, became the first human to enter space on ...