Brazilian artist and activist Mundano recently used some unusual substances to paint a picture on a building in Sao Paulo. The paint included materials, such as ash and mud, collected from natural disasters. Mundano created the mural to highlight the...
October 31 is Halloween. But many Americans have been preparing for the holiday for weeks. And businesses are hoping for good profits from Halloween purchases. The National Retail Federation (N.R.F.) is the largest U.S. trade group representing selle...
Baseball has long called its championship the World Series although it only involves teams playing in the United States and Canada. It started in 1903 when the Pittsburgh Pirates of the National League beat the Boston Americans of the American League...
On a film set in China, a 69-year-old actor is playing the part of a wealthy family leader. In Grandma's Moon, actor Zhu Jian celebrates his birthday with a costly dinner party. And he is about to get a big surprise: One of the workers at the party i...
The Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza will open a limited number of exhibits about ancient Egypt starting this week. The limited opening will be a test run of the still-unannounced official opening of the museum, officials said. Starting on October 16, 4...
Takosangba Pongen could see until he was 14 years old. He has been blind for the 13 years since. But, nobody would know that by watching Pongen perform on the piano. Pongen said playing the piano helped him after he lost his sight. It opened a window...
A family in Italy hopes to prove that a painting found long ago on the island of Capri is the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso. The family has been gathering scientific evidence to support the claim. It wants officials of the Picasso estate to co...
South Korean writer Han Kang won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature on Thursday. The Swedish Academy's Nobel Committee said her work confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life. Born in 1970, Han Kang is the first South Korea...
A playhouse in London, Britain and a theater from Osaka, Japan, are working together to prove cultural differences between the two countries are only on the surface. London's Charing Cross Theatre and Osaka's Umeda Arts Theater first worked together...
In the Japanese town of Kojima, the main road is named Jeans Street. This street is where people from around the world come to visit. The drink machines at the train station have images of jeans on them. The roads are painted blue, with the lines at...
Spanish scientist Pilar Bosch has found a way to use bacteria to repair 18th-century paintings. Bosch, a microbiologist, tells Reuters she got the idea for the method while considering possibilities for a paper toward her doctoral degree. During this...
Benmou Suzuki is a religious worker at a 420-year-old temple that is not in very good condition. It is deep in the forest near a small Japanese mountain village. It does not look like a valuable property. Yet two men recently asked Suzuki if he was i...
The Japanese video game company Nintendo is opening a museum that will teach visitors about its history. At the museum, fans of Super Mario, The Legend of Zelda and the Game Boy and Switch devices can learn more about one of the world's most famous g...
Eiko Araki is an expert of the Sanuki Kagari Temari, a Japanese traditional craft. The craft has been passed down for more than 1,000 years on the island of Shikoku. Araki is at the center of a small circle of women who are working hard to make temar...
Celebrations across the United States are taking place to mark National Hispanic Heritage Month. It is a yearly tradition that honors the diversity and culture of Hispanic people. The month-long period is a chance for many in the U.S. to learn about...
