Tokyo

The Fast and the Studious

A group of Japanese engineering students will present an unusual thesis project this summer — the car they're building will race at Le Mans

Galilee

You Didn't Know Harry Potter Was Jewish?

According to some Hasidim, J.K. Rowlings' tale closely parallels their mystical struggles with the Voldemorts of the spirit realm

Berlin

Enjoying the Anarchic Debate

Germans are at odds over the future of an airport that was built by the Nazis but played a key role in the defense of democracy

Mysore

In the Mecca of Celebrity Yoga

K. Pattabhi Jois and B.N.S. Iyengar may be household names among the yoga devotees of the West, but they're largely unknown in their Indian home town

Khartoum

'Hotel California' in Osama's Old Stamping Ground

A local band gets to play Eagles covers to a dancing crowd as an oil boom helps relax Islamist restrictions on life in Sudan's capital

Sao Paulo

The World's Worst Traffic Jams

So heavy is the congestion in Brazil's biggest city that residents must find ways of amusing themselves during the hours they spend in the car

Paris

Video: Baseball à la française

Baseball's popularity in France has lagged behind basketball's, but could that be changing?

China's Last Hunters Face an Uncertain Future

Among the Oroqen people of northern China, an ancient way of life is being lost in a flurry of assimilation

Damascus

How to Buy an Oriental Rug

Lessons in navigating the markets of the Middle East

Khotan

The Other 'Tibet'

While China's crackdown in Tibet fills the headlines, the less noticed repression in Xinjiang has the region's Muslim Uighur majority seething

Bangalore

Dale Carnegie Comes to India

India churns out cutting-edge IT graduates, but to succeed in a global economy, now they're learning the ways of cubicle culture

Fraser Island

Free the Dingoes, Cage the Humans

The residents of a small Australian island have been getting dangerously friendly with the local wild dogs. To prevent tragedies, the authorities want to fence the humans in