May 30, 1963 marked the fifteenth birthday of my sister Nancy Gerson in Mexico City. As first generation born in Mexico my parents decided to have a quinceañera celebration of a girl's 15th birthday. It has pre-Columbian roots in Mexico (Aztecs) and is widely celebrated by girls throughout Latin A

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) returns to the House and gets a standing ovation. This is her first time back in the House since surviving an assassination attempt in January of 2011 to vote in favor of raising the debt ceiling.

The Tokyo Summer Olympics will showcase several new sports. This video showcases: 1) Skateboarding will showcase two different disciplines in the Olympics, street and park, with 80 athletes representing 26 different countries in all. 2) Surfing at the Tokyo Olympics will take place on Tsurigasaki ...

Gilad Shalit landed at an IDF base, where he was greeted by the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and the IDF Chief of the General Staff. After meeting the officials he was finally reunited with his family, for the first time after more than five years in captivity. In a controversial decision by ...

the annual Fourth of July Invasion of the Pines attracts hundreds of drag queens and thousands of spectators to what has become an annual Independence Day event. The queens arrive at the Fire Island Pines Harbor. On the afternoon of July 4 each year, drag queens from both Cherry Grove and the Pines ...

The trailer for Bohemian Rhapsody, the Freddie Mercury/Queen biopic starring Rami Malek, has arrived. Writes 20th Century Fox in the synopsis: “Bohemian Rhapsody is a foot-stomping celebration of Queen, their music and their extraordinary lead singer Freddie Mercury, who defied stereotypes and shatt

Every November a celebration known as the Vigil of the Authentic Intrepid Searchers of Danger takes place in the city of Juchitán, Oaxaca, in Mexico. In this community of Zapotec indigenous people, it's generally understood that there are men, there are women, and there are muxes (pronounced "mooshe

16 year-old scientist and humanitarian Jack Andraka has already changed the world. At 15, he won the Intel ISEF Gorden E. Moore award, the $75,000 top prize, for his invention of an early stage Pancreatic Cancer diagnostic test. Being referred to "the 15 year-old who changed the course of medicine" ...

Personal trainer and fitness model Jack Eyers has striped naked for a great cause: to raise money for a U.K. organization helping people with disabilities. Eyers, an amputee born with a rare condition called Proximal Femoral Focal Deficiency, stars in an advert for Scope, a U.K. charity that raises

Andrea Bocelli and HAUSER performing Con Te Partirò (Time To Say Goodbye) in Teatro Del Silenzio, Italy 2021.