LIFESTYLE

Chinese parents, abducted son reunited after 24 years

BANGKOK — After 24 years of heartache and searching, a Chinese couple were reunited with their son who was abducted as a toddler outside their front… Read more

American men experiencing 'friendship recession': report

American men are having a hard time making friends.

According to the Survey Center on American Life, men in the U.S. are experiencing a "friendship… Read more

Survivors of Bosnia massacre grapple with horrors, deniers

SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Herzegovina  — Through tears and in between fraught silences, Devla Ajsic refuses to remain quiet any longer.

Ajsic was 21… Read more

South Africa’s ex-leader turns himself in for prison term

NKANDLA, South Africa — Former South African president Jacob Zuma turned himself over to police early Thursday to begin serving a 15-month prison term.

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Philanthropies eagerly back journalist Hannah-Jones

NEW YORK  — Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones used major philanthropic donors to build her future as a tenured professor at Howard University, just as… Read more

Building collapse shows town’s rich, middle-class division

SURFSIDE, Fla.  — The condo tower collapse in Surfside could exacerbate the division that already exists between the tiny Florida town’s new luxury… Read more

Some Chinese shun grueling careers for ‘low-desire life’

BEIJING — Fed up with work stress, Guo Jianlong quit a newspaper job in Beijing and moved to China’s mountain southwest to “lie flat.”

Guo joined… Read more

US troops on front lines of America’s longest war

During the course of America’s longest war, more than 800,000 members of the U.S. military served in Afghanistan, a multigenerational fight against… Read more