Surgery was rare and risky in the medieval period. Though medical options were limited, trans people were able to take ...

Seattle satirist Maria Semple’s breakthrough novel is a flurry of contemporary, epistolary wit. Passive aggressive e-mail ...

Tehran University students began protesting over the death of a student during a robbery next to the university, leading to a crackdown by Iranian police. Information ...

"The most decisive way to confront this constant threat that impacts mostly on peasants, children and women, is to condemn the use of mines, in accordance with the Ottawa Convention", the ...