The Economist2d
What can the world’s most walkable cities teach other places?
Matteo Bruno and his colleagues at the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Rome calculated the walkability of more than ...
Pakistan to Force Tens of Thousands of Afghan Refugees Out of the Capital
The order, giving Afghans until March 31 to go elsewhere in Pakistan, came on the heels of President Trump’s suspension of ...
Global Forecast-Fahrenheit
Global Forecast as of 12:00 GMT Friday, February 7, 2025 ...
Graffiti removal isn’t the enemy of art. It’s part of a vibrant dialogue on life in the big city
Graffiti removal forms part of the visual culture of contemporary cities. The knowledge and aesthetic contributions of ...
Yangon, an anxious, frenetic city where 'everything looks normal, but is abnormal'
Le Monde managed to visit Myanmar's largest city despite the war. The city has lost none of its buzz, our journalist reports.
The Independent5d
Paris, the village of light in Kyrgyzstan's rugged mountains
To reach Paris's Eiffel Tower, Nurzhigit Abrahman had to zig-zag through treacherous mountain passes and avoid an avalanche ...
London Review of Books6d
Resident Bean Expert
A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...
TheDerrick.com6d
Rubio views a deportation flight in Panama as Trump prioritizes an immigration crackdown
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has viewed a deportation flight carrying 43 migrants before it took off from Panama as ...
A Taliban highway could lead to the future. But it’s stuck in the past.
Taliban officials have a plan to turn one of the country’s most remote corners into a global trade hub by linking the Afghan heartland with China.
Sudan’s health authorities say a paramilitary group attacked an open market in the city of Omdurman, killing 54 people.
Sudan's health authorities say a paramilitary group attacked an open market in the city of Omdurman, killing 54 people.
WMBB9d
The Taliban take over Afghanistan’s only luxury hotel, more than a decade after attacking it
It operates three other hotels in Afghanistan, two in Kabul and one in the eastern city of Nangarhar. Tourism official Mohammad Saeed told The Associated Press last year that he wanted Afghanistan to ...
They escaped from Afghanistan to Wisconsin. Now they've resettled across the nation
As President Donald Trump works to limit the number of immigrants in the country, Afghans who fled Taliban rule are adjusting ...