A century-old British tram gets restored to its former glory

A Costa Rican dance against colonialism becomes a paradoxical tourist attraction

The Bambir, one of Armenia’s biggest rock bands, is still going strong after 40 years 

After more than a century, women take a formal role in New Bedford’s massive Madeiran Feast

New book explores the world of unbuilt architecture

How do you save a vanishing lake? Kazakhstan has a plan.

Tens of thousands attend Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem

Saudi Arabia’s conservative clerics have a new relationship with the government under Mohammed bin Salman

Aid worker says they can’t operate after 7 World Center Kitchen staffers are killed in Israeli strike

Brazil remembers the 1964 coup and victims of the dictatorship 

‘Imaginary Amazon’ exhibition counters negative stereotypes through contemporary art

‘We have different cultures, but we share the same island’: Dominican Republic priest says his country should do more to help Haiti

Neturei Karta: an Orthodox Jewish sect that doesn’t believe in the concept of a Jewish state of Israel

‘Oppenheimer’ film ‘fails’ to show devastation of atom bombs in postwar Japan, critics say

Jewish American delis: A story of culture, community and survival

‘Everyone is worried about starvation’: Aid worker discusses dire situation in Gaza

Residents return home to kibbutz attacked by Hamas in southern Israel

This school in Israel is opening dialogue among its Jewish, Arab and international students

Women’s camel racing team takes an ancient sport back to the future

How the asylum system became the main avenue for mass migration to the US

‘I don’t know what’s waiting for us in the next minute’: A father tries to protect his family in Gaza

John Malkovich directs epic play ‘Leopoldstadt’ in Latvia

‘I’m here to fight for democracy’: Tens of thousands protest against the far-right in Germany

New York City’s older Chinese American population faces increasing housing challenges, poverty

100 days of fighting in Gaza with no end in sight

Healing old wounds: The revival of Greenlandic Inuit tattoos in Denmark

‘I just got completely blasted by love’: People in the UK attest to the ways that spirituality is evolving 

Christians in Gaza fear for their tiny community amid strikes on churches

A newly launched news channel in Iraq tries to preserve the ancient Syriac language

The writer who published a satirical magazine while hiding in a Dutch home during WWII

‘We’re bracing for what comes after’ the truce, MSF Gaza director says

Standing Together leaders discuss attempts to open Jewish-Arab dialogue amid Gaza war

Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands

‘Existing and resisting’: Black quilombo communities fight for land, rights in Brazil

‘A link with my ancestors’: Britons reconnect with Jewish roots for EU passports

Iraq’s signature anbar rice is disappearing amid water shortages

As thousands flee violence in southern Israel, some decide to stay put

Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click

American World War II doctor in Italy captures scenes of wartime beyond the front lines 

Jewish London on edge amid spike in antisemitic attacks

The Palestinian political system needs to be rebuilt on ‘national consensus,’ says political activist

Zimbabwe’s stone sculptors struggle to keep carving

How this Cambodian American singer found her voice

A timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

For ‘dinosaur music,’ prehistoric instruments set the tone

‘The cosmovision of our ancestors’: Panama witnesses first solar eclipse in 25 years

Australians ready for a historic referendum recognizing First Nations people

Costa Rica is Catholic by law, but the president is courting evangelicals

New film tackles Ukraine’s role in the Holocaust

‘It’s all mixed’: Sasami makes music inspired by her multicultural heritage 

A modern take on an ancient Chinese folk tale

Tinmel — Morocco’s medieval shrine and mosque — is one of the historic casualties of the earthquake

Coalition of small island states makes a case that greenhouse gas emissions are covered by UN Law of the Sea

‘Planet Hip Hop’: The music will always be the voice of the people, Samy Alim says

Denmark pays students to go to college. But free education does have a price.

Demise of ‘Crooked House’ pub is cautionary tale about loss of British heritage

World’s faith leaders convene to ‘fight against authoritarianism’

A group of carpenters in Germany is erecting a medieval utopia using only 9th-century tools

Spain to compensate thalidomide victims decades later

‘Iron harvest:’ A Belgian team unearths unexploded ammunition from WWI