Credit: UN Photo / Mark Garten U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who will be departing his post Dec. 31 after 10 years, is seen during a Capitol Hill meeting in August
South Sudan will likely postpone its 2018 presidential elections because of a recently reignited conflict that threatens to prolong the country’s civil war, according to Garang Diing Akuong, South Sudan’s
Cover Story Bogotá on Verge of Clinching Historic Reconciliation with FARC Rebels Colombians love a good party, and in a year stained by terrorism, South America's second-most populous country has
Photos: National Gallery of Art Among the works in a sweeping survey of Paul Mellon's collection at the National Gallery of Art are Odilon Redon's 1912 watercolor "Five Butterflies." The
The majority of Canada’s 3.8 million square miles is dominated by stunning mountains, tundra, forests and untamed wilderness. Perhaps the best way to soak in this expansive scenery, which stretches
“Born for This: The BeBe Winans Story,” about prodigy siblings BeBe and sister CeCe, is a melodious delight and rousing crowd-pleaser. But it’s not without its highlights and low points,
AFGHANISTAN Aug. 19: Independence Day ANDORRA Aug. 15: Assumption AUSTRIA Aug. 15: Assumption BAHAMAS Aug. 1: Emancipation Day BARBADOS Aug. 1: Emancipation Day Aug. 1: Kadooment Day BELGIUM Aug. 15:
Photo: Courtesy the artist and Axis Gallery, New Jersey and New York / by Franko Khoury Among the video works that explore the notion of time at the National Museum
Cyprus Leonidas Pantelides became ambassador of Cyprus to the United States on June 27, 2016. Ambassador Pantelides previously served as first deputy permanent secretary/director of the Middle East and North
Cuba is famous for its cigars, sugar and rum, but perhaps its most valuable export is its doctors. While many goods are lacking on the communist island, from cars to
The exhibition title, just two words, hints at something much bigger — the largest exodus of people in recorded history, in fact. The words speak to a universal desire to
EVENT CATEGORIES Art Discussions Music Theater ART Through Aug. 1 POP of Kolor In this electric mashup of American pop art with Korean traditional art, Kwang Nyun Song and
Languages Cantonese German Silent Czech Hebrew Spanish English Japanese French Mandarin Cantonese The Blade Directed by Tsui Hark (Hong Kong, 1995, 100 min.) This phantasmagoric action film, the director's masterful
