He dreamt of being the first vegan to climb Mount Everest from Nepal. Then the earthquake happened.

  KATHMANDU, Nepal – Thirty-five-year-old software programer Kuntal Joisher wanted to kill the most frequently asked but annoying question that he faces as a vegan: “Where are you getting your proteins from?” So he vowed to be the first vegan to climb Mount Everest from the Nepalese Himalayan range. Then the earthquake happened. “I wanted to do […]








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Does North Korea execute people with anti-aircraft guns? New satellite images suggest the rumors may be true.

Plenty of crazy stories about executions come out of North Korea. Many turn out to be dubious. Remember Kim Jong Un's executed ex-girlfriend? She later turned up, very much alive. Kim's uncle, executed using a pack of wild dogs? Executed, yes, but the dogs part turned out to be sourced to a satirical Chinese blogger. One of the […]








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The former head of Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida movement says ‘sorry’ to Muslims

Only few months ago, nobody would have imagined that one of the most emotional pro-tolerance speeches would one day come from one of Germany's fiercest critics of Islam and immigrants. Yet it was Kathrin Oertel – once the leader of Germany's anti-immigrant Pegida movement, which drew tens of thousands of supporters at its peak – who apologized to Muslims in […]








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Gloria Steinem on why she’s going to North Korea

A group of women’s rights activists will head to North Korea in late May to hold a peace rally and then to walk across the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the Korean peninsula for more than 60 years. They will then hold peace-related events in Seoul. Washington Post correspondent Anna Fifield talked to Gloria Steinem about […]








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A cake depicting the 9/11 attacks stirs an outcry in Austria

It is rare for cake makers to make national political headlines. Thomas Kienbauer, however, is an exception. The Austrian has recently caused a controversy at home with a cake modeled on the World Trade Center, depicting planes hitting the twin towers in 2001. "My customers have predominantly reacted positively to my latest creation," Kienbauer told The Washington Post […]








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