OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is doubling down on Retro Biosciences, a biotech startup based in San Francisco that wants humans to live 10 years longer than what it calls a healthy human lifespan. Altman ...

Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), January 20: While millions gather at the Maha Kumbh Mela in Prayagraj for the holy dip at the Triveni Sangam, a unique figure among the Naga sadhus has become the talk of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like any good display of fireworks, Womad husbanded some of its biggest bangs for the end. São Paulo’s Bixiga ...

Kevin E G Perry travels to Senegal to meet the man who is treated more like a prophet than a musician by his fellow countrymen. Festival pictures by Julian Hickman If you’ve read something you love on ...

WOMAD is thrilled to announce the first slate of global artists who will be descending to the picturesque landscape of Charlton Park in Wiltshire Thursday 25 - Sunday 28 July 2024. An eclectic mix of ...

The Senegalese singer-songwriter known as the “voice of Wakanda” from the “Black Panther” films recommends sites to see in the place where he found his own voice. The Hotel Sobo Bade in the suburb of ...

Amid a changing, modernizing world with climate change threatening his home, Senegalese singer-songwriter and activist Baaba Maal is releasing his first album in seven years, "Being." The ...

Yukiko Baba's first-ever credit in the Pokémon TCG was in the Johto-themed set, Neo Discovery. This was back in the Wizards of the Coast days. Baba contributed four cards to that first set, including ...

Bonn/New York, 16 June 2023 – Women facing worsening droughts, raging wildfires and other climate change impacts will deliver an urgent message to the international community at the United Nations in ...

A frontline of percussionists on djembe, sabar and conga drums beat out a fierce welcome. Then, from somewhere behind us, there it was. The same voice that soared – giant, powerful, timeless – over a ...

Then, the song explodes, driven by the rhythmic clatter of the sabar drums, so characteristic of the region, with subtle voice distortions and electronic effects. This is fusion of the ancient and new ...