The Egyptian virtuoso musician Omar Khairat performed a dazzling concert at the Mariinsky Theatre in the cultural city of Saint Petersburg on Monday, June 18.

Two up-and-coming U.S. rappers, XXXTentacion and Jimmy Wopo, were killed on Monday in separate shootings near Miami and in Pittsburgh.

Superhero movie “Black Panther’ made a killing at the MTV Movie & TV Awards on Monday, winning four trophies in a ceremony that also recognized gays.

For leading plastic surgeon Karim Rafla, going under the knife should be all about becoming the most beautiful version of ourselves and feeling confident, rather than attempting to look different.

From cinema to music, theater and literature, Egyptian culture takes much from the Russian tradition.

We speak to longtime Russian residents in the capital and on the coastline about why they chose to stay put when other expats left.