Apr 16, 2018 · World news about Bangladesh. Breaking news and archival information about its people, politics and economy from The New York Times.

Luis Buñuel, Writer: Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie. The man of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education …

Japanese homosexual women are sometimes described using another ‘pot’ metaphor, onabe [meaning ‘pan’] a parallel term to okama which only has meaning in relation to it. However, this term is less well known than the English loan word rezu [from lesbian].Onabe are represented as the opposite of okama, being masculine in both …

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will begin Wednesday with his first official visit to the Oval Office under U.S. President Donald Trump. His visit comes as tensions have grown between Moscow and Washington over conflicts in Syria, Ukraine and, to a lesser extent, the nuclear posturing of

Couples of Chinese men and Western women are a rarity. Why is that? Jocelyn, an American who has a Chinese husband, explores the reasons.

First Ladies and Hairstyles. How have First Lady hairstyles affected public trends? In earlier periods the influence was greater. Now news is so broken into so many specialized interest categories that the general public might never see or hear anything about a First Lady unless they wanted to, or searched it out.

The Me Too movement (or “#MeToo”, with local alternatives in other languages) is an international movement against sexual harassment and assault. #MeToo spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. It followed …

A Guy June 2 . If the white guys are dating Asian women, they’re not racist. But as for the white women looking down on Asian men, that is likely just hypergamy.

The French Foreign Legion was created by Louis Philippe, the King of the French, on 10 March 1831 from the foreign regiments of the Kingdom of France.Recruits included soldiers from the recently disbanded Swiss and German foreign regiments of the Bourbon monarchy. The Royal Ordinance for the establishment of the new regiment …

Factoid: n.Something that becomes accepted as a fact, although it is not (or may not be) true; spec. an assumption or speculation reported and repeated so often that it is popularly considered true; a simulated or imagined fact.Oxford English Dictionary