Chinese architect Wang Shu, praised for creating sustainable urban design in harmony with its surroundings and local cultures, is the latest winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

A North Korean and a French orchestra performed a landmark concert on Wednesday, adding a note of harmony to long-standing tensions between the isolated nation and the West.

This was serial murder, racial murder, and it stunned the country and its leaders who just happened to be in the midst of an already bitter and racially divisive presidential election campaign, Don Murray writes.