Anita Kirpalani

America is winning the culture race for global audiences and leaving Europe in the dust, says French journalist Frédéric Martel in his new hit book, 'Mainstream.'

The Quartet's special envoy on the recent flotilla crisis.

Pakistan and its problems remain at the center of world attention. Leading Pakistani human-rights lawyer Asma Jahangir talks about the chances for change in her fractious homeland.

With financial hard times whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment across Europe, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has bowed to the angry wind by launching a national debate on what it means to be French.

The recent intensification of protests in Iran has been met with more arrests. Among those detained: the sister of Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize–winning human-rights lawyer.

Historic speeches by visiting American presidents have left an outsize footprint on Berlin.

Neophyte cooks who are not quite ready to open up their homes to strangers can enlist plenty of help from the professionals. Across Europe, enthusiastic amateur cooks are booking all manner of classes at high-end restaurants and culinary institutes.

Q&A: A former Pakistani diplomat says America's most useful weapon is hurting the cause in his country.

Entrepreneurs are trying to recycle carbon from the air by turning it into gasoline.

Chief among Europe's subliminal fears these days is invasion by waves of illegal immigrants. This neurosis forms the heart of "Eden Is West," a new film by Greek director Constantin Costa-Gavras that opened the London Human Rights Watch Film Festival last week.

A fountain pen is only as good as the paper it's used on. Bleeding ink, floating stains and seepage through the page are just a few of the hazards that can befall even the most luxurious writing instrument.