A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.

Infrastructure

This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters

Wind generators near the Indigenous town of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Mexico.

Development

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor aims to rival the Panama Canal

Surfing instructor Godpower Tamarakuro Pekipuma in Lagos, Nigeria.

Sports

‘Walking on water’: Surfing makes waves in Nigeria

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou waves as Ma leaves for China, at Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan City, northern Taiwan, Monday, March 27, 2023. 

Former Taiwanese president makes historic visit to China

Lifestyle

Vietnam draft dodgers who settled in Canada have influenced some of its small towns for generations

Father Damion, abbot at St. Joseph's Trappist Abbey, left, and Spencer Brewery director Father Isaac walk through their new, state-of-the-art facility in Spencer, Massachusetts, Jan. 9, 2014.

Lifestyle & Belief

Trappist monks keep beer tradition alive despite decline in interest for monastic life

A bronze standing Shiva statue is unpacked at the National Museum of Cambodia in Phnom Penh after being returned to the kingdom in March 2023.

Arts, Culture & Media

 Looted relics returned to Cambodia receive monks’ blessings

Young Africans seek to leverage Vice President Harris’ trip to Africa 

50 years ago, Nixon announced the withdrawal of US troops from Vietnam

A student shows a piece of ceramic in the archaeological excavation near Salbitz, central Germany, on Friday, April 8, 2011.

States at dawn: Part I

Commentator Bruce Barcott looks at the growing field of green living guidebooks.

Bruce Barcott

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