National maps give them both a star, but for more than a century, the seat of Bolivia's government has been in high-altitude La Paz. Now Sucre, a provincial lowland city where the highest courts are based, wants the executive and legislative branches as well.The unlikely...

A single road snakes past shabby houses and dismal small farms, marking the way from Sochi's seashore into the mountains. Soon, this same route will be transformed, with a gleaming high-tech train line and smooth, swift new roads to carry travelers to the 2014 Winter...

Four gorillas at the center of a five-year international tussle will finally return to Cameroon at the end of November, the South African government said Friday.The Western Lowland Gorillas, known as the Taiping Four, were illegally smuggled as young animals to Taiping Zoo in Malaysia,...

In the following essay, von Dassanowsky offers a critical reading of Riefenstahl's Tiefland within the context of feminist film theory, arguing that Tiefland expresses a pre-feminist consciousness and a rejection of Nazism.

In the following essay, Tegel provides a factual account of the legal proceedings surrounding the question of Riefenstahl's use of gypsy concentration camp victims as extras in her film Tiefland.