By Rami Ayyub TEL AVIV (Reuters) – An Iranian judoka who fled his country after ignoring orders to drop out of a match in 2019 to avoid facing an Israeli won a…
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By Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As the new chief executive of the four-year-old Global Fund to End Modern Slavery (GFEMS), Alex Thier has an ambitious goal – raise enough…
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NORWICH, Conn. (Reuters) – American millennials with budget constraints are breaking out of their pandemic coops to find affordable dream homes in far-flung places. For funeral home director Kate Reinhart, from Utah,…
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London (dpa) – The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Britain is to stage a virtual reality performance for the first time in its history. The company, which is famed for staging the…
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East African artists are gaining more international recognition, but in their home countries, many have to fight against a variety of hurdles in order to live their dream of being a recognized…
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WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The president’s poet woke up a superstar on Thursday, after a powerful reading at the U.S. inauguration catapulted 22-year-old Amanda Gorman to the top of Amazon’s best-seller…
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By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) – When the pandemic hit, Larry Gadea, CEO of the San Francisco-based office-services startup Envoy, saw a chance to pivot. Gadea, who was born in…
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By Maria Caspani and Brendan O’Brien NEW YORK (Reuters) – For New York City high school teacher Rebecca Crawford, receiving the coronavirus vaccine meant taking the first concrete step towards seeing her…
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By Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan NEW YORK (Reuters) – As a little girl who spoke no English when she moved to the United States from Taiwan, Annie Young-Scrivner learned early on about challenging…
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Over the course of its history, cinema has survived the rise of television and the internet. But could the pandemic be the final nail in its coffin? Experts fear the worst. Paris…
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