"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library," the late Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges once said.

I'm sitting on a psychiatrist's couch in southern Japan, turning the pages of a manga by the artist Torisugari.

Five years ago, Du Juan, a native of Chengdu, Southwest China's Sichuan province, was wondering where to go for work after she graduated from Michigan State University.

Teachers and academics in the UK and the US have taken to Twitter to thank Donald Trump's wife for providing the perfect material to teach their students what plagiarism is and why it is wrong.

In May, thousands of advocates, policymakers and leaders from business and civil society gathered in Copenhagen for Women Deliver ...

The Mundari: The tribe dying for their cows

On a bright day in downtown Kabul, Jagtar Singh Laghmani was in his traditional herb shop when a man turned up, drew a knife and told him to convert to Islam or he would cut his throat. Only bystanders and other shopkeepers saved his life.

A jaguar featured at an Olympic torch ceremony was shot dead by a soldier shortly after the event in the Brazilian Amazon city of Manaus as the animal escaped from its handlers

A court in Qatar has convicted a Dutch woman of having sex outside marriage after she told police she was raped.

Nearly four centuries after the university was founded, Harvard campus opened its first building named for a woman -- Chinese American Ruth Mulan Chu Chao (1930-2007).