In Africa's largest slum town, a retired railway worker has turned an abandoned shack into a library for the local children. Every afternoon at four o'clock, Joseph Otieno unlocks a dented metal door ...

I wonder how Naveed will navigate his own path – and how much I must nurture and how much I must learn to let go ...

An education proposal to expand Indiana’s required “good citizenship” instruction to include high school completion, full-time employment and marriage passed the Senate on Thursday but drew opposition ...

The Alcona County Library released its events for this month and it is going to be busy and there will be something for ...

If books are exhausting (but still rewarding) marathons, then short stories are exhilarating sprints, not burdened by the ...

Jacob Kornbluh, a former lox-slinger with no degrees, became an unlikely fixture in New York politics. Now he is chasing the ...

Since the United Nations designated January 27—the date of the liberation of Auschwitz—as the International Holocaust ...

Somewhere on the island is a small village where people farm and fish by day and sit around the fires at night singing songs and dancing.

Al Jazeera reports that more than 2,700 Palestinian families have been wiped out in Gaza — entire extended families erased ...

Widowed and abandoned, Kagendo worked tirelessly, studied, and became a local authority. She secured her children’s future, ...

In a dramatic twist, a Brevard judge rejected a plea deal for ex‑deputy Andrew Lawson, saying she couldn’t sentence him under its terms.