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The author sought an authentic experience, and found it in Lets Drift, “an exuberant Kenyan-centered enterprise” of people living in and near Nairobi.

The legislation would sentence those who identify as L.G.B.T.Q. to three years in jail and punish those who promote gay issues as well. It would be among the harshest on the African continent.

The Japanese company Studio Ghibli opened a theme park to celebrate the eccentric, charming animated movies of its founder, Hayao Miyazaki. Could two ‘Totoro’-loving toddlers find happiness there?

In a time when everything’s gone virtual, Halloween costumes represent an old-fashioned commitment to the physical world.

Not everyone evacuated when the Chernobyl nuclear plant melted down in 1986. The few who stayed lived through another calamity when Russian troops marched in.

As the “chief troubleshooter” for the United Nations, he spent months shuttling around the Middle East to secure the release of 11 captives.

Ying Ying is the oldest panda on record to give birth for the first time. Also unusual: her cubs were naturally conceived, a rarity for the vulnerable species.

“Panda diplomacy” has represented an area of cooperation between the United States and China despite tension over weighty issues of trade and national security.

A motorcade through the capital revived “panda diplomacy” between Washington and Beijing for the first time in nearly a year.

The pandas, Bao Li and Qing Bao, will be flown to the Smithsonian National Zoo from China before the end of the year.