Rituals

Picturing the super-rich on their own private islands, soaking up the sun and drinking cocktails?  Sometimes, sure, but day in and day out, most of them have disciplined daily routines. …

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Feasting on unburied corpses, using skulls as cooking utensils and eating human flesh as part of dark magic rituals: these are just a few of the stomach-turning practices still observed …

Student took legal action against London school, saying policy was discriminatory and ‘uniquely’ affected her faith. A Muslim pupil in the United Kingdom has lost a court challenge against a …

The defining experience of Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s childhood left her with badly scraped knees and her classmates with broken bones. During sixth grade in Osaka, Japan, Ms. Yamazaki — now …