Annalisa Merelli

Not many people recognize the name Neil Strauss.

A video shared online on the afternoon of Oct. 26 is yet another reminder that the United States has a deep problem with police brutality, and particularly towards black citizens.

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As a presidential hopeful, Hillary Clinton has put gender equality at the core of her campaign. And one of the reasons is that it makes economic sense. The US economy, she says, would grow significantly if as many women as men were involved in the workforce, and with equal pay.

At the beginning of this year’s annual United Nations General Assembly, world leaders set out to end extreme poverty in 15 years. This is not the first time the UN set such an ambitious goal for itself. In 1990, it committed to achieving 15 development programs that would end extreme poverty by 2015. While there has been much progress, extreme poverty is all but gone.

In 1994, three years after Ukraine become independent from a dissolving Soviet Union, the government ordered that USSR passports and identity documents be replaced with Ukrainian ones. Alexander Chekmenev was a young photographer working in a photo studio in the city of Luhansk, in eastern Ukraine, when he was assigned by a social aid organization to take passport pictures of the ill and elderly people who could not leave their homes.

Master miniaturist Dan Ohlmann made his first collection of miniature furniture in 1985 and gained fame shortly after, thanks to an hyper-realistic version of the famous Parisian restaurant Maxim’s. His success started a career: he is now not only an expert creator of miniatures but also the curator of one of the world’s most amazing miniature collections.

Earlier this year, Mark Zuckerberg was praised for sharing the news that his wife had had three miscarriages. Miscarriages—pregnancies that terminate on their own before the 20th week of gestation—aren’t just common. They are very common. Another scientific name for miscarriages is “early pregnancy loss”—and it seems a better definition, at least acknowledging that is a real loss.

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All of society’s handwringing over screen time may be misplaced after all. According to a new survey by the Pew Research Center, American teenagers seem to prefer real life experience—at least as far as romance goes.

Hollywood’s success with its latest box office wonder The Martian (which grossed $55 million in its opening weekend alone) offers a signpost to where American entertainment is heading—not to Mars, but to China. American blockbusters make millions in the Chinese market—the world’s second largest by box office, after America—and Chinese financing is pouring into Hollywood itself.

Šopić is a Christian Orthodox village outside Belgrade whose 150-year-old church was damaged by a tornado last year. Since then the local parish has decided it should be demolished, and replaced with a new one. But the local community doesn’t agree. Residents want the old church restored instead.

Ladybird, the British publisher that has introduced generations of kids to topics about the world like flags, train and space travel, and clocks and time, is turning 100. Founded in 1915 in Leicestershire during World War I, Ladybird’s mission was to publish “pure and healthy” literature for children. It has been a beloved British icon for decades—particularly thanks to its vintage guides.

While in a few decades virtually all of our jobs could be gone, replaced by incredibly sophisticated machines, humans might not be obsolete just yet. And that’s not because of talents we’ve acquired and honed through millennia. Essentially, we still excel at basic, innate skills—such as listening.

French public television channel France 3 has made a significant stride forward in workplace equality: the majority of its presenters are women. As women strive to gain professional parity all over the world, it’s certainly an achievement worth celebrating.

The fifth of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) recently adopted by the UN is to “achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls” by 2030. Among other things, the goal includes eliminating child marriage.

There’s a place named Cape Disappointment, in Washington State Park, where fog hangs in the air for 2552 hours a year. But don’t book the flight to see it for yourself just yet—there’s still Mistake Island in Maine, or Canada’s Unfortunate Cove.

It’s time for Italians to get exposed to one of America’s favourite foods: pizza.

Pasta is perfect. Fact.

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When news broke that the price of Daraprim, a 62-year-old life-saving drug often prescribed to AIDS patient, had been raised from $13.50 a tablet to $750, outrage ensued. The steep rise was announced on Sept. 20 by Turing Pharmaceuticals, a startup that, according to the New York Times, acquired the rights to the medication in August, and immediately after increased its price by over 5,500%.

If “socialist garage doors” don’t sound captivating to you, prepare for a surprise.

It’s been almost a year since Taylor Swift released 1989, and the album is still making magic happen.

Our filter-friendly life is coming under so much scrutiny lately. First, hipster Barbie touched a nerve by parodying all the stereotypes of the Instagram hashtag #liveauthentic. Now, Chompoo Baritone, a Thai photographer based in Bangkok, has published a new series of pictures that reveal all the messy reality we usually crop from our social media shots.