India’s top wrestlers held off from throwing their medals into the country’s sacred Ganges River on Tuesday — as part of an ongoing protest against sexual harassment — after a community leader intervened and persuaded them against doing so. The wrestlers, who
In 2016, over three dozen people died in Oakland from a fire that broke out at an illegally converted artist warehouse which lacked working exits and fire extinguishers. The warehouse has been acquired by The Unity Council, an Oakland-based nonprofit community development
Eighteen Belgian students were found guilty on Friday for their role in the 2018 death of a freshman university student during a brutal and degrading initiation ritual and were sentenced to community service and fines. Sanda Dia was 20 when he died
It took 3,787 regular-season games and 29 trips to the playoffs, countless ripoffs of rainbow uniforms and even more ‘yeah, buts’ than any city should have to stomach. Finally, 47 seasons into an entertaining, often frustrating and almost always overlooked journey in
A fishy disappearance of Japanese koi in one Maryland community has led residents to believe they’ve been targeted by thieves. Three robberies have been reported in Howard County, a municipality in the Piedmont Plateau region of Maryland, and approximately 88 koi fish
The NFL community mourned the loss of legendary Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown Friday afternoon after his family shared the news of his death. He was 87. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a statement calling Brown “one of the most dominant
An advocacy group that also served as a safe space for the LGBTQ community in Beijing became the latest organization to close under a crackdown by Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s government. “We very regretfully announce, due to forces beyond our control, the
A 17-year-old boy has died at Scotland’s oldest boarding school following a “medical emergency”. Emergency services raced to the scene after being called just before 7pm on Tuesday, May 2, to Loretto School. While the student was rushed to Edinburgh’s Royal Infirmary,
In a dilapidated block in the business district of Africa’s wealthiest city, Johannesburg, Thulani Cele and 300 others squatting in the building fill buckets with water from the only working tap so they can drink and wash. “We are living in a
A new Pew survey on the changing faith of the Hispanic and Latino community in America finds that there are far fewer who are Catholic and many more who are religiously unaffiliated. The numbers are quite striking. The portion of Hispanic and