Chile’s biggest carnival is kicking off at full speed today. As many as 150,000 people have traveled to the northern Chilean ...

Fifty years ago, the pop superstars ABBA donated all proceeds from the song “Chiquitita” to UNICEF. The song is still making ...

The city of Kyoto is known as Japan's cultural and spiritual capital. It's for good reason: Kyoto has hundreds of Buddhist ...

Mahmoud and Ahmed Muna, owners of East Jerusalem bookstore, Educational Bookshop, were detained by Israeli police on ...

Only 60 villagers remain in the Spanish town of Libros. The town’s name translates to the word “books” in English, and now, the mayor thinks the key to the town’s salvation is in its name. The grand ...

The president of the Central African Republic, one of the world’s poorest countries, announced on X that it was releasing a new cryptocurrency on Sunday — a meme coin. The token, abbreviated CAR, ...

In the chaotic days when Kabul fell to the Taliban, Zalaikha Wahid escaped Afghanistan with some of her family. Now settled in the US, she hopes to become a doctor, but it’s not so easy. She shared ...

In one phone call, President Donald Trump transformed Vladimir Putin from a pariah into a negotiating partner. And in his remarks on Wednesday, his Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said NATO ...

In Chile, pet cemeteries seem to be everywhere — they dot the landscape in almost every city. And they aren’t Stephen King creepy. They’re beloved. But they’re also largely unregulated. And that’s ...

President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have signaled a dramatic shift in the US approach to Russia, Ukraine, and the NATO alliance. Where does that leave Europe? Also, the latest ...

Americans have increasingly been arrested for involvement in organized crime in Mexico, according to an investigation by the Mexican news outlet Animal Político, published this week. They found that ...

Activists say police in Azerbaijan created fake profiles on the LGBT dating app Grindr in an effort to entrap gay men and extort them for money. As The World’s Durrie Bouscaren reports, the technique ...