As Indigenous peoples and local communities globally struggle to safeguard their rights over their land and forests, Nepal ...

"Queen Bardot stands there where morality ends," French author Marguerite Duras wrote in 1958. "She does as she pleases, and ...

Celebrated worldwide for her film career and screen presence, Bardot later withdrew from cinema and devoted herself almost ...

Today, people consider "Yule" synonymous with "Christmas." But centuries ago, Yule meant something different — a pagan mid-winter festival, dating back to pre-Christian Germanic people.

A year ago, the appearance of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal created a buzz, given that the species hadn’t been seen ...

(CNN) — Animal rights activists have urged the Nepali government to stop what they’ve called “an appalling bloodbath” after they claimed thousands of animals were killed as part of a festival held ...

Earlier this month, residents in a small town south of San Antonio were left slack-jawed as they opened their mailboxes. A mysterious person, seemingly a local, photocopied a handwritten letter ...

The New York City Police Department told Newsweek that it arrested a man who social media users claimed killed a cat and was planning to make another animal “sacrifice” on Halloween. David Mosley, 26, ...

From the suffering of breeding dogs in puppy mills, or the abandonment and neglect of street dogs, or the cruelty that is often inflicted upon these innocent animals, we come across stories of animal ...

A 1980s legal battle in Florida over animal sacrifice led to a Supreme Court decision that still shapes U.S. religious freedom protections today. Donald Trump's bid to make key data secret hit by ...

TADIM MOUND, TURKEY—Excavations at the site of Tadım Mound near Elaziğ in eastern Turkey have provided new information about millennia-old ritual and religious practices, the Daily Sabah reports. The ...