Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

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On the windswept coasts of Hokkaido, a language once thought to be vanishing is echoing back into life. The story of Ainu, ...

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Broadway welcomes back a classic work by a classic writing team. Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance is getting ...

Spike Lee hired the rapper for 'Highest 2 Lowest' after social media joked he could be Denzel Washington’s son.

“In response to this reality, Pope Francis has set the theme of the Holy Year of 2025 as ‘Pilgrims of Hope,’ and called on ...

Mental illness is no longer a taboo in Bangladesh — but are we healing, or simply importing a foreign language of suffering? In ‘Crazy Like Us,’ Ethan Watters shows what happens when psychiatry ...

Ingrida Domarkienė, a geneticist at Vilnius University in Lithuania, discusses the exciting developments made possible by studying ancient and modern DNA.

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