British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998’s ...

British playwright Tom Stoppard, a playful, probing dramatist who won an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1998's "Shakespeare In Love," has died. He was 88.

South African police said three men were detained while trying to board a flight to Russia via the United Arab Emirates.

People who watched “The Manchurian Candidate” will be familiar with the phrase “Why don’t you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?” Seeing the Queen of Diamonds card triggers a brainwashed ...

The Miss Universe pageant took place in Thailand on Friday local time. The 2025 winner, Miss Mexico Fátima Bosch, was crowned after some drama-filled weeks for the pageant. The Miss Universe ...

Russia's Cold War-era 'Doomsday Radio', known as UVB-76 or The Buzzer, sent a strange coded broadcast on Monday that included the word Latvia. The message sparked panic online, with fears that Russia ...

The 74th annual Miss Universe contest will be held in Bangkok on Friday morning local time. There will be 120 women competing in the pageant. The contestants include a civil engineer, a "Big Brother" ...

Fátima Bosch of Mexico has won this year's scandal-plagued Miss Universe competition, just days after she walked out of one of its events in protest. Bosch, 25, was crowned the new Miss Universe on ...

"Radio Plato", founded in 2018, is an independent online radio station that promotes Belarusian music and art projects to a global audience.

A new independent television station with ties to Russia is set to be launched in Kyrgyzstan, fueling fears the media outlet could become a tool for spreading Moscow's propaganda in Central Asia.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. Matryoshka dolls are a Russian folk art tradition dating back over a ...