The UN Will Give You $15,000 To Help Address Climate Change

This is an opinion piece by Erik Solheim, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. During an extraordinary year in Bern, Switzerland, a young German ...

Gavin Lind: A Thoughtful Comedian That's In Tune With The Struggles Of The LGBT Community

The South African newcomer to the comedy scene and mining lobbyist tackles everything from gay marriage to Apartheid and veganism Gavin Lind is a brave comedian. It takes r...

Eli Manning Headlines Tackle Kids Cancer All Stars Event

More than 500 youth and community groups joined stars from the world of sports to celebrate raising more than $250,000 as part of “Eli’s Challenge,” a cam...

Two Women One Cause

They make an unusual team. Amal Clooney is an Oxford-educated human-rights lawyer married to a film star. Nadia Murad was born in a poor Iraqi village and once aspired to b...

How One Creature Haunts Our Thoughts

A newly-christened species of giant spider was unveiled this week. Kelly Grovier looks at why these creepy-crawlies have long crouched in the dark corners of our imaginatio...

Katie Couric To Emcee New York Women In Communications Matrix Awards

New York Women in Communications (NYWICI) will present the 2017 Matrix Awards during a luncheon at the Sheraton New York Times Square on Monday April 24, 2017, to honor sev...

Speech By Angelina Jolie ‘In Defense Of Internationalism’

We are here in memory of Sergio Vieira de Mello and the 21 other men and women, most of them UN workers, who died with him in the bombing of the UN Headquarters in Baghdad ...

How Two Lower Income Mumbai Boys Became Extraordinary Ballet Dancers Who Could Put India On The Map

Manish and Amir do swift high jumps when their turn in the class comes and everybody is left in awe. Both have been in class since 8.30 a.m and their mentor and teacher, 72...

After Her Husband’s Death, Shanno Begum Defied Odds to Become Delhi’s First Woman Uber Driver

“My name is Shanno Begum from Delhi.”

Thus begins a video telling the story of an extraordinary woman who overcame the impossible to become the first wo...