Global Dispatches

There are some important moments in a country’s history when a nation is either helped or destroyed—or both.

As the eurozone crisis continues to burn hot, not everyone in Poland is as optimistic as outgoing European ...

After two days of rousing rhetoric by politicians, including heads of state, and world-renowned experts on development at ...

Japan—Suspicion and Helping Hands After the Quake

The apartment building being erected next to mine, here in Warsaw, is being built almost entirely by Chinese ...

If words are anything to go by, love was in the air of the diplomatic world of international ...

Thailand remains profoundly divided by last year's events and many believe the upcoming elections will only worsen political ...

WARSAW, Poland—As many of the world's economies are buttressing themselves with signs of solid recovery from the global ...

Good things come in three's they say, and leaping into the third day of the month of May ...

“Songkran” means “passage” or “move into” and it refers to the position of the sun within the solar ...

Johan Cruijff is regarded as one the greatest soccer players in history.

Since I like happy endings I'm going to reverse the chronology for this one.

ATHENS, Greece—For 400 years starting in 1453, the land of Greece was dominated by Turkey.

After being in a coma for four years, Thai pop star Apichit "Big" Kittikorncharoen finally succumbed to the ...

The film is based on real-life events surrounding the emergence of the Solidarity labor union movement.

Salaries in the public sector have been drastically cut while taxes have increased.

BIRMINGHAM, England—Tea is more than just a drink. It is more than a tonic. It is more than ...

I bet that very few people here in the Netherlands have managed to escape the latest “Farmer Wants ...

The handling of the Smolensk air crash investigation sparks a hyper-politicized crescendo of partisan battle cries.

We Brits are a deferential lot; to the point of silliness at times.

The English language is now spoken by far more people outside of England than within.

It's not often that specific dishes, referred to by name, make it into the verses of epic poems.

Each Christmas some Dutch DJs fast for a week while broadcasting calls for charitable donations.

My windshield is scraped clean and I have beaten a worthy opponent.

Warsaw's east side might not have been renovated since WW II but it still has character—and a world-class ...

Brits talk of 'our relationship with Europe' as though Europe were something outside of us.

The British sense of order prevails in a crisis. Until it snows, that is.