Annalisa Merelli

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump hit a new low yesterday, Dec. 7, with a call for a ban on all Muslims traveling to the US.

Graphic artist Yang Liu has a sharp eye for cultural comparison, honed by personal experience. In 1990, at the age of 13, she moved from Beijing, to Berlin. After exactly 13 years there, she started an illustrated project to document her dual experiences in China and Germany.

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Donald Trump owns “Central Park.”

Journalistic images out of North Korea, especially ones depicting everyday life, hold a special fascination. It’s a combination of their relative rarity, and of the surprise in finding that, even in the most secluded country in the world, daily routines might resemble our own more than we’d expect.

Actress and adult film entrepreneur Stoya caused a stir in the porn industry this weekend, after accusing former co-star and ex-boyfriend Bryan Sevilla, better known by the stage name James Deen, of rape. On Nov. 28, she shared graphic details of the alleged assault on Twitter, writing: ”I said no, stop, used my safeword.”

Even before it ends, 2015 has been the year with the highest number of deaths (148) caused by terror attacks in Western Europe since 2004. That year, 196 people died and more than 1,850 were wounded, in large majority in the attacks that hit the Cercanías commuter network in Madrid in what remains the most deadly attack to hit continental Europe since the end of World War II.

The family of Ahmed Mohamed, the teenager who was arrested in Texas in September for bringing a homemade clock to school that was mistaken for a bomb, is now suing the City of Irving and the Irving School District for $15 million.

In a sweeping advisory, the United States told its citizens to ”exercise vigilance” when traveling anywhere in the world because terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in multiple locations.

On Nov. 18, the Ethiopian Airlines flight from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Bangkok, Thailand had something different to it: it was completely operated by a female crew, from ground operations all the way to the sky. Captain Amsale Gualu was assisted by a female co-pilot, Selam Tesfaye, and by an all-female cabin crew and female ground staff. This was a first in the history of the airline—and likely in that of African aviation.

While in some parts of the world “improved sanitation” means getting a high-tech Toto toilet—self-cleaning and with a heated seat amongst other comforts—for a large part of humanity, it means having a toilet at all. According to the latest data from UNICEF—the United Nations Children’s Fund—2.4 billion people don’t have a toilet, and nearly one billion defecate in the open.

It’s been a week from hell.

STDs are having a comeback in the US, according to the latest Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) data, published on Nov. 17. Syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia, in particular, have seen a dramatic increase between 2013 and 2014 that can’t be explained by an increase in screenings. Usually, these diseases can be resolved with simple treatment programs over a few days or weeks. But if they’re left undiagnosed or untreated, they can eventually lead to serious complications, ranging from infertility (gonorrhea), to arthritis (chlamydia), and even death (syphilis).

At the end of 2014, Ekaterine Zguladze was assigned a task many had thought unrealistic: Implement police reforms in Ukraine, where citizens have associated the militsiya with corruption and inefficiency for decades. But Zguladze had accomplished something similar before—in her native Georgia, where she had led police reforms that earned her praise across the border—and made her as qualified as anyone to bring change to Ukraine’s police.

Less than two days after the tragic attacks of Paris, citizens and tourists are starting to go out again. Under the bluest of Parisian skies, with national monuments and museums still closed, some people have spent this sad Sunday filming a city that’s stubbornly trying to raise its head.

After the deadly attacks shook Paris on the evening and night of Nov. 13, president François Hollande called the state of emergency and Parisians were advised to stay indoors and safe until the state of emergency was over. Schools, museums, markets and many other public places will remain closed on Nov. 14:

Shortly after news of several lethal attacks that struck Paris on the evening of Nov. 13 was confirmed, world leaders begun to express solidarity.

Any time I hear mention of “cutting out carbs” as a way to lose weight or become healthier, I lose it. As an Italian, I grew up on foods people now consider evil: pasta, bread, risotto. The notion that these foods are somehow unhealthy, and inessential to our diets, feels like an attack on my identity. And so, as the world around me sings the praise of protein-rich foods, I never even entertained the idea of reconsidering my loyalty to the Mediterranean diet.

Until the early 20th century large epidemics of yellow fever erupted routinely in Africa, Europe and the Americas, killing hundreds of thousands. The viral disease, spread by a mosquito, is fatal in about 20% cases—making it a serious threat for about 900 million people living in the 45 countries where the virus is present. While yellow fever cannot be eliminated from the wild and there is no cure for it, immunizing at least 70% of the population in at-risk areas effectively eliminates the risk of outbreaks, a goal that had been reached in the decades following the introduction of the vaccine in the 1930s.

In 1941, three captives of Italy’s fascist regime wrote a utopian manifesto titled Per un’Europa libera e unita (For a free and united Europe). For Altiero Spinelli, Ernesto Rossi and Eugenio Colorni, the only lasting solution to the continent’s bloody war was a federal union of European countries.

The problem with do-it-yourself projects is that the distance between what you have in mind and the reality of what you wind up with is often rather significant.

Between 2001 and 2011, New York City’s MTA had to dispose of approximately 2,500 old subway cars that had been replaced. And what better place to put them than the Atlantic Ocean?

Anyone can run a marathon—or so it would seem judging by the variety of people who cross the finish line after running for 26.2 miles (42 km).

“Dove andiamo a ballare questa sera?” (where are we going dancing tonight?) is an art installation by Sara Goldschmied and Eleonora Chiari, a Milan-based art duo, shown at the Museion in Bozen-Bolzano, in the South Tirol region of Italy.