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ESPN World Cup Poster Features A Greek Word That Does Not Actually Exist
If you haven't seen the latest World Cup posters commissioned by ESPN and illustrated by Brazilian graphic artist Cristiano Siqueira, you're seriously missing out. The bold, color-saturated images are...
View Article9 Political Cartoons That Put Climate Change In Perspective
Last month, the Niels Bugge Cartoon Award asked illustrators and cartoonists from around the world to submit drawings based on a basic theme: climate. "Oceans are in our hands," the contest proclaimed,...
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These Indian Village Quilts Channel The Great Modern Masters
The embroidered condoms weren’t obvious right away, but Cathleen Cummings remembers them vividly now. It was 2007, and she was in a village in Bihar, one of the poorest states in India. A museum...
View Article15 Spiritual Books To Take To The Beach This Summer
Nothing says summer more than a trip to the beach; and nothing says beach more than a good book. The warm weather and calm splash of waves offers the perfect setting to settle down with a book that...
View ArticlePope Francis Needs A Holiday: Advisers Say He's Working Too Hard
WASHINGTON (RNS) Pope Francis has been working nonstop since his election more than a year ago, and he has shown remarkable resilience for a 77-year-old confronted with an array of church crises. But...
View ArticleFatah and Hamas: Spontaneous Combustion
Barely had the pictures of the Palestinian unity government been published, when skirmishes broke out around ATMs in Gaza between Hamas and Fatah government workers. Under the agreement, the...
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Daily Meditation: Be Still
We all need help maintaining our personal spiritual practice. We hope that these daily meditations, prayers and mindful awareness exercises can be part of bringing spirituality alive in your life....
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Here's What To Do In Brazil's World Cup Host Cities Besides Watch Soccer
The 2014 FIFA World Cup begins June 12, and host cities across Brazil are gearing up to welcome hundreds of thousands of travelers. Soccer fans traveling to the games in the 12 host cities are in for a...
View ArticlePoroshenko Sworn In As Ukraine's President
KIEV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's new president on Saturday called for pro-Russian rebels in the country's east to lay down their arms and welcomed dialogue with the insurgents, but said he wouldn't...
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How Retirement In The U.S. Stacks Up Against The Rest Of The World
SPECIAL FROM Next Avenue By Richard Eisenberg We hear constantly how Americans are unprepared for retirement and hugely pessimistic about our prospects. But compared to many other countries, we’re...
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Massive Plasma 'Fuse' Sparks Solar Eruption In New NASA Video
A massive formation on the sun made of super-hot magnetic plasma erupted this week in an explosive solar storm captured on video by NASA spacecraft. The huge plasma tendril, known as a solar filament,...
View ArticleIraqi Militants Attack Anbar University, Take Students Hostage
BAGHDAD (AP) — A series of car bombs exploded across Iraq's capital Saturday night, killing at least 44 people in a day of violence that saw militants storm a university in the country's restive Anbar...
View ArticleMore Than 50 Dead As Flash Floods Hit Remote Northern Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Flooding in a remote part of northern Afghanistan has claimed more than 50 lives and forced thousands to flee their homes, a provincial official said Saturday. It was the...
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Burning Barricades, A Tiananmen Vigil And D-Day On Normandy's Beaches: Week...
Nothing quite compares to the power of a photograph to communicate the goings on in the world. Ranging from the serious to the silly, these photos offer peeks into what happened around the globe this...
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Weird 'Worm Lizard' Fossil Discovered In Spain
They look like snakes, but don't be fooled: Legless, slithering amphisbaenians are more closely related to lizards than to boa constrictors. Now, the first complete skull of the ancestor of today's...
View ArticleMaria Sharapova Wins French Open In Thrilling Women's Final (PHOTOS)
PARIS (AP) — Even though her serve failed her repeatedly, Maria Sharapova is a French Open champion once again. Sharapova won her second title at Roland Garros in the last three years, overcoming 12...
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Fossils Of Ancient Forest Fire May Hold New Clues To The Last Days Of The...
In the badlands of southern Saskatchewan, Canada, scientists discovered evidence of a 66-million-year-old forest fire locked in stone. Fossilized plants found on top of the layers of ancient charcoal...
View ArticleBergdahl Says He Was Tortured By Taliban Captors
PARIS (AP) — U.S. Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at an American military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in...
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Your Weekly Travel Zen: Brazil
The World Cup is just days away and flocks of fans and travelers are descending upon cities around Brazil... so why not take a moment to admire the beauty of the country? With innumerable natural...
View ArticleEgypt's El-Sissi Sworn In, Says Time To Build Stability
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's former military chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, winner by a landslide in last month's presidential election, was sworn into office Sunday nearly a year after he ousted the nation's...
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