Ukrainian war veteran Oleh Tserkovnyi has inspired two fellow veterans to swim across the Bosphorus on their country's Independence Day

Thai filmmaker Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is bringing his most personal project yet to the Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section with “Human Resource,” a contemplative drama that tackles the global decline in birth rates through the eyes of a pregnant HR manager.

As the planet heats up, the world’s most vulnerable workers are being pushed to the brink. In 2024, India recorded its hottest year on record, with temperatures hitting 50 degrees Celsius in some regions.

It began on the edgy margins of a mainstream festival — which it's now eclipsed. But nearly 80 years on, performers and spectators say rising costs threaten the Fringe's alternative vibe.

The Mercator projection, a centuries-old map style from the age of sail, still prevails in the internet age. Here’s what the African Union wants to use instead.

The state is ever more insistent on a reality at odds with people’s experience. That’s not a good sign for progress.

Among the recent public letters was one from dozens of Orthodox rabbis demanding “moral clarity” to what they called a humanitarian crisis.

Climate discourse has shifted from skepticism to morality, economics, and security - now it’s so tied to geopolitics it can’t be ignored.