French lawmakers on Wednesday approved a controversial bill that will make the clients of prostitutes liable for fines starting at €1,500 ($2,000). The draft law was approved by the lower house National Assembly, with 268 deputies voting in favor, 138 voting against and 79 abstaining. The bill, which now has ...
Wisconsin’s ultraliberal capital city is a place where just about anything goes, from street parties to naked bike rides. But ...
Researcher Garth Bruen long has investigated the seamier corners of the Internet, but even he was shocked to discover Rapetube.org, ...
Anyone who switched on Russian TV recently might have been forgiven for thinking the Kremlin was relaxing its hard line on gays: Images of rainbow flags and a happy same-sex couple looking adoringly at their child flashed across the screen. But the show, with ...
Americans don’t trust each other anymore. We are not talking about the loss of faith in big institutions such as the government, the church or Wall Street, which fluctuates with events. For four decades, a gut-level ingredient of democracy — trust in the other ...
French lawmakers on Saturday adopted a highly controversial provision in a bill that punishes clients of prostitutes amid fierce argument that the new measure will be counterproductive. Under the new provision, buying sex acts will be punishable by a €1,500 ($2,000) fine. Repeat offenders ...
Members of a Mormon congregation in the U.S. encountered someone they thought was a homeless man at church last Sunday. What they did not know was the man was a bishop for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At least five people ...
Britain announced Friday final details of a plan enabling couples to share parental leave after the birth of their child in a bid to help working mothers and give fathers more time with their children. Working couples will be able to share any remaining ...
A Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer with a medical marijuana prescription for job-related stress provoked a national debate Thursday over whether he should be allowed to smoke in uniform. Cpl. Ronald Francis serves in New Brunswick province, and reportedly received a prescription for medical-grade ...
Two Chicago women on Wednesday became the first same-sex couple to say their vows in Illinois after a federal judge granted an expedited marriage license because of one woman’s failing health. Patricia Ewert and Vernita Gray took the vows in a private ceremony, days ...
Pope Francis on Tuesday sharply criticized growing economic inequality and unfettered markets in a lengthy paper outlining a populist philosophy that he says will guide his papacy as he pushes the Catholic Church to reach out more, particularly to the disenfranchised. Using sharply worded ...
Pope Francis on Tuesday sharply criticized growing economic inequality and unfettered markets in a lengthy paper outlining a populist philosophy that he says will guide his papacy as he pushes the Catholic Church to reach out more, particularly to the disenfranchised. Using sharply worded ...
“Welcome aboard, ready for the lesson?” the teacher asks three passengers sitting down to their English class in one of the carriages of the 7:43 a.m. commuter train to Paris. It is not your usual classroom inside this train making the 45-minute trip from ...
At 9 o’clock in the morning in a garden shed behind a house in Amsterdam, a handful of alcoholics are getting ready to clean the surrounding streets, beer and cigarette in hand. For a day’s work, the men receive €10 (around $13), a half-packet ...
Education Secretary Arne Duncan tried Monday to quell the outrage sparked by his comments that injected race and class into the debate about the Common Core academic standards taking root in classrooms across the country. Duncan said Friday that he was fascinated by the ...
