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When it comes to good health, moms have it better in some countries than in others. Where's the absolute worst place to be a mother? If you guessed Afghanistan, you're right. With one in five kids in that war-torn nation dying before age five, just about every Afghan mom is likely to suffer...

There is something -- well, everything, really -- about that spiritual experience that is ineffable and eternally elusive. It's no wonder, then, that an integral part of virtually all major world faith traditions is music. It is the language of the soul, after all. What can't be said in words...

A Sikh hunts for a lost ancestor in Japan. William Dalrymple seeks precious details about the last Mughal. Both find answers at the National Archives of India. Now, with a new director general at the helm, this repository of memory is trying even harder to tell you your history. We spent a...

View a fantastic slideshow of Nihang warriors in encampment at this link Nihangs, last warring monks of the Sikh faith. Nihangs, last warring monks of the Sikh faith. Last guardians of the warrior Sikh traditions, thousands of Nihang monks roam across Punjab: a...