Actress or spy? Gong Li unveils hidden layers in ‘Saturday Fiction’
Chinese actress Gong Li portrays a film and stage star with a hidden agenda in “Saturday Fiction”, a black and white historical spy drama set...
Bangkok tops Paris, London as world’s most-visited city: MasterCard
Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, edged out Paris and London as the world’s most popular city to visit, according to a survey released on Wednesday, welcome news...
The land of the car develops a taste for electric cargo bikes
A rising number of environmentally conscious Germans are buying electric cargo bikes, which last year outsold electric cars in a country known for its love...
Under siege in Nigeria, South African businesses shut stores
South African companies MTN and Shoprite closed stores in Nigeria on Wednesday in the face of attacks targeting their premises in retaliation to similar violence...
Ohio woman on trial for alleged baby murder
Brooke Sklyar Richardson is on trial in Ohio for allegedly murdering her baby. The defense says the baby was stillborn and that the state has...
UK parliament approves first stage of bill to stop no-deal Brexit
Britain’s parliament approved the first stage of a bill designed to stop a so-called no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31, underlining the lack of support for...
British lawmakers vote to block no-deal Brexit amid election haggling
The British parliament on Wednesday voted to prevent Prime Minister Boris Johnson taking Britain out of the European Union without a deal, but he sought...
Palestinian women demand legal protection after suspected ‘honor killing’
Hundreds of Palestinians demonstrated in the West Bank on Wednesday to demand legal protection for women after a 21-year-old woman died last month in what...
Netanyahu pays homage in Hebron, in nod to rightist voters
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a rare visit to a core ultra-nationalist Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, pledging a permanent Israeli...
Turkey plans to build mosque on site of Istanbul’s first beer factory
Turkey’s first modern beer factory could face demolition after being transferred to the country’s highest religious authority, which plans to build a mosque and a...