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Global Politics
Is that Putin’s daughter doing a flip? A Russian journalist says it is.
Innoculation always prompts anxiety. Here's how France dealt with it three centuries ago.
Culture
How France used fashion to spread the message to vaccinate
A woman cries as she waits for humanitarian aid in the battered town of Debaltseve in eastern Ukraine.
Conflict
War rages on in Ukraine despite talk of peace
Fisherman are silhouetted against the rising sun in the waters of the Ganges river.
Health
Spreading my father’s ashes on the Ganges felt like a link across the globe and across generations
Kikkoman Soy Sauce
Culture
Remembering the Japanese designer who was compelled to create something beautiful after seeing Hiroshima’s devastation
Oliver's TRavels offering rain-free weddings
Business
A British travel company offers a rain-free wedding day
Safi Haso, about 70 years old, from Girik village of Kobani. "We are probably the last generation that has tattoos," she says. "All Kurdish women had them." In addition to facial, hand and neck tattoos, Haso has tattooed her own breast with circles around
Culture
These Kurdish refugee women are proud owners of facial tattoos
Culture
Death and sadness after a stampede outside a Cairo soccer stadium