How would you feel if you were forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan as a child laborer? You can find out by playing an online game whose goal is to make you bored and frustrated.
A firestorm of outrage has erupted among Russia’s political elites and state media after the country’s children’s rights ombudsman announced the death of a Russian child who had been adopted by an American couple.
With terrorist organizations taking to Twitter and Facebook, social-network operators are coming under increased pressure from governments to shut down their accounts. But activists -- and the social networks themselves -- are worried about the implications on free speech.
Pakistan's inability to stop a hard-line Sunni faction from systematically killing Shi'ite Muslims has put its determination to act in question.
The second home of St. Petersburg's prestigious Mariinsky Theater was unveiled to the public in late January following a decade-long construction saga. But the vast glass-walled building has upset many St. Petersburg residents, who say it spoils the city's unique architecture.
Many people think electronic cigarettes are a safe alternative to smoking. Are they?
Marina Ivanova, a senior scientist in the Laboratory of Meteoritics at Moscow's Vernadsky Institute, tells RFE/RL what happens when meteors crash into Earth's atmosphere and why the recent incident in central Russia was such an "extraordinary event."
As many as 1 million Armenian citizens living or traveling abroad will not be able to vote in the country's February 18 presidential election. Armenia and other countries with large diasporas face an unusual set of challenges when it comes to holding elections.
Armenians go to the polls on February 18 for the fifth presidential election since gaining independence. What the campaign has lacked in suspense, it has more than made up for in strangeness.
Mitrovica's ethnic Serbian and Albanian communities have been divided since the end of Kosovo's war in June 1999. To the south of the Ibar River, Albanians see Mitrovica as part of a new country governed by Pristina, which declared independence from Serbia five years ago. But most Serbs in the north insist Mitrovica -- and indeed, all of Kosovo -- will forever be Serbia.
Hundreds of women took to the streets of Kabul and other Afghan cities in a rare public protest against gender-based violence.
Reports suggest that Iran is implementing new measures aimed at tightening Internet censorship in the run-up to the June 14 presidential vote.
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