Eurasia News

By Ava Thomas LONDON — Bikes. That’s what Parveen* sells. Not the racing kind that will be flying around the track in the new Olympic Velodrome soon, the ones competing just across the street from where she works in London’s Stratford community. What Parveen would like to sell you from her street stand is the [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — For more than 200 years, London has been the dwelling place of some of the globe’s most remarkable cultural treasures. In an hour’s stroll through the British Museum, a visitor can view Greek statues from the Parthenon and colossal stone winged lions from an Assyrian palace. You can also see [...]

By Elaine Gaston LONDON — In the church-like quiet of the great hall, worshippers gather to meditate, some with heads bowed as they listen to the recitation of scriptures. Men and women sit cross-legged on the carpet, their feet carefully pointing away from the front where worship is being led. The hall isn’t one of [...]