Commencement speakers have a routine: A few words of encouragement, a good—or maybe not-so-good—joke, and a bit of advice. But this year, Robert F. Smith, the billionaire founder of the private equity firm Vista Equity Partners, who…

Photographer Soumya Sankar Bose remembers how Jatra, a style of folk theater, was popular during his childhood in West Bengal. But 10 years after moving out, Bose returned home to find that Jatra was no longer celebrated nearly as much. The genre's…

Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/7193622d19914e4e8e36139b845a1f31 Click to copyhttps://apnews.com/7193622d19914e4e8e36139b845a1f31 PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower has been closed to visitors after a person has tried to scale it. The Paris…

8 July 2018 Last updated at 21:12 BST The first of the 12 boys trapped in a cave in Thailand with their football coach have been brought to safety, after two weeks stranded underground. Child psychiatrist Dr Andrea Danese discusses the challenges…

A champion sprinter with village roots has become India's first openly gay professional athlete, less than a year after the country's top court overturned a longstanding ban on gay sex. A member of India's national track and field team, Dutee…