When Roman Catholic children receive their First Communion in Mexico, their families throw a party. After the religious ceremony, people gather at a house or commercial venue to share a meal in a celebration that […]

SHIMLA, INDIA — Gue village in Himachal Pradesh’s high-altitude Spiti district is a remote hamlet that is just nine kilometers away from the Indo-Tibetan border. In 1975, when an earthquake in the Spiti Valley opened […]

KOLKATA, India — When Sanchita Chakraborty Sinha, 34, visited the Adina mosque, around 13 miles from Malda town in West Bengal for the first time in 2004, she was surprised to see how terracotta bricks […]

SRINAGAR, India — “Wazwaan” is not just a multi-course, non-vegetarian feast for wosti (Chef) Shafi Ahmad Khosa (60) who has been preparing delicious Kashmiri dishes for 35 years. It isn’t a merely a matter of skill […]

A muchos mexicanos simplemente se les antoja una buena hamburguesa. Traída de Estados Unidos, la hamburguesa llegó a México para quedarse. El platillo se parece un poco a una torta mexicana. Nació a finales del […]

By Naama Barak With the recent New Year’s Eve being a rather underwhelming event courtesy of Covid-19, it’s a good thing that there’s another one just around the corner: Tu B’Shvat, the Jewish New Year […]

JERUSALEM — During the Six-Day War in June 1967, 36 Israeli soldiers and 71 Jordanian soldiers fell into a fierce and pivotal battle on Ammunition Hill in northern Jerusalem. The hill has since been preserved […]

Former President Donald Trump’s last-minute rollbacks of environmental protections are being challenged. An interstate coalition of 23 state attorneys general, led by New York’s Letitia A. James, is fighting the Trump administration’s moves on Jan. […]

As some Republicans try to make a break from the politics of former President Donald J. Trump, his loyalists have issued a series of censures and denouncements that lay bare the roiling conflict within the […]

NEW DELHI — Dragon fruit is not particularly popular in India. However, this exotic and expensive fruit that is usually found on the buffet tables of five-star hotels and fancy wedding receptions, has suddenly taken […]