Comedians in Syria see a new moment for their art form. With the regime that stifled dissent under former President Bashar al ...

This year marks a half-century since the end of the Vietnam War. A well-known memorial in Washington, DC, pays tribute to the ...

The clash between the Trump administration and Voice of America continues. In March, an executive order was issued to ...

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most ...

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US-based firm that helped design and manage an aid initiative to deliver food to ...

According to recent research, the semicolon has declined in use in British books by 50%. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explores why the misunderstood punctuation mark is under threat.

Developers of genetically modified seeds hope to boost production and prevent crop diseases in countries hit the hardest by climate change. But farmers on the ground in Kenya have big concerns. The ...

David Bliss grew up hearing stories about his great-aunt Bertha, a once-energetic woman who ran her own shop in the small ...

Mexico’s former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, used his Morena party’s majority to shove through reforms to make all judges in Mexico elected, instead of appointed. Now, current President ...

The city of Cologne, Germany, evacuated more than 20,000 people from its city center, after three unexploded bombs from World War II were found. That’s the largest evacuation the city has seen since ...

The Dutch Election Commission has to schedule new elections, after far-right politician Geert Wilders pulled his ministers from the four-party governing coalition. Opposition leaders in parliament ...

Torrential rains hit the town of Mokwa in Niger State, Nigeria, last week. More than 200 people have died, hundreds more are missing and an estimated 3,000 people have been displaced. Judith Leveillee ...