Latin

An illustration image shows the new Latin-based Kazakh alphabet published in a newspaper in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on Oct. 27, 2017.

Kazakhstan’s switch from Cyrillic to Latin is about more than just alphabets

Culture

Kazakhstan’s president is betting that transforming the alphabet will help his country bolster its national identity, ditch its Russian and Soviet colonial past and better integrate itself in the modern world.

Barcelona soccer fans make their feelings known about Catalan independence, at a game on Wednesday Oct 18th 2017

The roots of Catalonia’s differences with the rest of Spain

Culture
Phillip Sossou

Boston high school senior uses art to ease racial tensions

Arts

Next papal selection could bring first non-European pope

Lifestyle & Belief