Hispanics have officially outnumbered whites in California, reaching a population of 14.99 million people, versus the 14.92 million white non-Hispanics who live in the state. This milestone, which had been expected for a while, finally arrived in July 2014, based on the latest estimates from the US Census Bureau.
Mexican workers in the US who lack the national platform that presidential candidate Donald Trump enjoys are using YouTube to upload their own tirades against the Republican in response to his rant about them.
Two weeks after the US Supreme Court ruled to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage across the US, Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has unveiled a ‘straight flag’ to champion conservative values that rival gay pride.
When Belarusian tennis pro Victoria Azarenka lost the Wimbledon quarter-final match in three sets to Serena Williams on Center Court this week (June 7), her post-match commentary about her vocal style of play seemed to attract more attention than the quality of her game.
In another sign of the tourism industry’s feeding frenzy around US travel to Cuba, global cruise liner Carnival is launching a line of ”social impact” cruises to the Caribbean island beginning in May of next year.
A group of Muslim organizations in the US have launched an online campaign to raise funds to help rebuild the eight black churches that burned down in Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, Ohio, and Georgia after the June 17 deadly shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina church.
The Greeks have answered with a resounding ”no” to a new round of bailout funding from their creditors, and while the country’s citizens and policymakers alike are baffled by what will happen happen next, so are the hoards of tourists who were planning to visit the country and capitalize on the destination’s cheap travel deals. If you are one of the globetrotters debating whether to brave a trip to the troubled country this summer, here are some of the most important things to keep in mind.
In the summer of 2005, the socialist Spanish government legalized gay marriage in Spain. My overwhelmingly Catholic country, with a legacy of a 40-year-old fascist dictatorship that even banned divorce, surprisingly became the third European Union member to authorize same-sex unions.
Uniqlo is launching a new “modest wear collection“ that will include headscarves and kebayas, a blouse-and-dress combination common in parts of Southeast Asia.
Terrorist attacks don’t just shake a city’s residents to the bone. They have become a force to reckon with for hotels, restaurants, and local attractions that rely on tourist traffic. Tunisia, for example, an economy that has been desperate to grow its tourism industry in the wake of the Arab Spring, has been hit two attacks to its top tourist destinations in the last three months alone, causing thousands of tourists to flee.
In another test of its ambitions to be a global e-commerce powerhouse, Amazon is putting its stamp on Mexico. Its new e-commerce site, Amazon.com.mx, which launched June 30, will allow customers in the country to buy millions of physical items for delivery. Previously, the company only offered Kindle devices and e-books in Mexico.
With 41 million native speakers and 12 million bilinguals, the United States is already the second-largest Spanish-speaking country in the world, according to a new report (link in Spanish). It is already ahead of Colombia and Spain, and just behind Mexico.
Some people in the Dutch city of Utrecht might soon get a windfall of extra cash, as part of a daring new experiment with the idea of “basic income.”
Updated at 3:30am ET on June 30 with Ora TV news.
For many years Latin American writers complained of living under the shadow of their predecessors: the heavyweights of magical realism like Gabriel García Márquez, Mario Vargas Llosa or Carlos Fuentes. And Latin American authors are too often absent from suggested reading lists, despite the demographic shift taking place in America.
Instagram has exploded with pictures of people celebrating the highly-anticipated US Supreme Court decision removing all bans on same-sex marriage across the United States.
The astronaut Scott Kelly has captured some breathtaking photos of aurora borealis from the International Space Station. In his shots, you can see how the red lights (instead of the regular green ones) float and glimmer over the Earth’s surface.
Fliers seem to have become inured to the hefty fees America’s sullied airlines now charge for checked bags and changed flights. All the better for US airlines, which in the first quarter of this year raked in more than $1.6 billion in revenue from those fees, the highest level since airlines began charging for checked bags, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
A 35-year-old woman in Australia became an actual “fashion victim” when she found herself in the hospital having her super-tight skinny jeans cut off after she fainted and spent several hours lying on the ground. Her case was recounted in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, in a report warning that tight jeans could cause nerve problems in the legs.
Some US presidential candidates are dusting off their Spanish dictionaries and practicing their ”buenos días” to try to gain the crucial Latino electorate. Donald Trump launched his campaign with the opposite approach, by railing against Mexicans:
Japan’s bullet train or shinkansen has long embodied the miracle of the country’s progress and efficiency. But it’s not just the trains that are quick. A short video showing an army of cleaners clearing the cars in a record time has gone viral.
Do you move three lanes away whenever you encounter a truck on the road? Do scary scenes from Steven Spielberg’s Duel come to mind when you have to overtake a trailer?
Tusks carved with African motifs, trinkets silhouetted with the shapes of tigers or Chinese men, and ornamented jewelry–one ton of confiscated ivory items in total—was turned to dust Friday, June 19 in the middle of New York City’s iconic Times Square.
In polluted cities around the world, it’s a struggle to see the stars in our night skies. And it’s that struggle that The World at Night’s 6th International Earth and Sky Photo Contest tries to highlight, showing us images of how the world would look if we controlled light pollution.
