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Just over a year after President Barack Obama introduced a new policy to allow transgender people to serve openly in the US military, President Donald Trump is reinstating a ban on transgender service members.

Britain said Wednesday it will outlaw the sale of new diesel and gasoline cars and vans from 2040 in a bid to cut air pollution but environmental groups said the proposals did not go far enough.

North Dakota is a big place with a small population: 750,000. So, farmers send a lot of their harvest overseas, and elected officials know full well: Exports are the state’s lifeblood.

With ISIS losing territory in Syria and Iraq, what will happen to their wives and children? We spoke to Borzou Daragahi of BuzzFeed News, who recently reported on meeting some of these women in Syria.

The far-right identitarian group Defend Europe plans to take a ship close to the coast of North Africa, where humanitarian groups rescue migrants. But it's running into difficulties trying to get there.

An archivist found more than 2,000 notebooks left behind in Harvard University storage for 50 years. Now, she’s working to make sure the notebooks from Harvard’s first women astronomers are available to the world.

The Economist's David Rennie says European leaders feel orphaned and bereft in the Trump era.

The beloved actor apologizes more than 50 years later for “inflicting the most atrocious cockney accent in history of cinema” in the 1964 Disney classic, “Mary Poppins.”

In a series of tweets, President Donald Trump said no transgender person can serve in the military, although thousands already do.

Back in the '60s, London was one of the centers for a cultural — and chemical — revolution: psychedelia. But now, a new and very British psychedelic culture is reappearing.

Bill Browder prepares to testify about the Russian collusion scandal and the dangers of Putin's agenda for the West.

Melania Trump is certainly among the most famous Slovenian-Americans. But many of her former countrymen wonder why their native land doesn't get more attention.

The curious parallels between love and the bizarre — but potentially very useful — phenomenon called "quantum entanglement."

The US government has a proven program that's boosting exports and creating rural jobs. North Dakotans want it expanded.

Arthur Brand is an art detective who has often been called the “Indiana Jones of the art world.” He’s convinced that the paintings are with the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Ireland. He says this isn’t just the biggest theft in art history, it’s also one of the biggest mysteries.

The concrete in ancient Roman harbors has grown stronger over time — the result, scientists now say, of complex interactions between seawater and volcanic ash in the mortar.

Mosul has more extensive explosive contamination than the other cities retaken from ISIS in Iraq.

When Justine Damond was shot by a Minneapolis police officers, Australian media descended on the city, and changed the way the shooting was being reported.

Fainess Lipenga came to the US to work as a maid for a diplomat from Malawi, but she says she was treated more like a slave. Her boss, covered by diplomatic immunity, never faced the consequences.

The fusion of West African music, Mississippi Delta blues and Caribbean rhythms are what the band Bokanté is all about.

In a surprising move, Polish president Andrzej Duda on Monday vetoed controversial judicial reforms that had prompted huge street protests and threats of unprecedented EU sanctions.

US authorities on Monday charged the driver of the overheated truck found in Texas packed with migrants with one count of transporting "illegal" immigrants, prosecutors said, as the death toll rose to 10.

Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species” arrived in the US in 1860, as the slavery debate raged and Civil War loomed. Its ideas were instantly absorbed into those discussions.

For now, the standard kilogram is a shiny little cylinder in Paris. Soon, that will change.

According to a study published in the journal Science, global warming will devastate the economy in parts of the US in years ahead, if temperatures are allowed to rise unabated.

The project shakes up stereotypes by connecting classrooms to real, working scientists.

A new study finds that most sunscreen products don’t do as much as you think. Here’s how to stay out of harm’s ray this summer.

This weekend, The World’s Marco Werman is hosting an hour-long special on the BBC World Service, looking back at that wild revolutionary moment in the cultural and political life of America.

The State Department war crimes office gives advice, provides resources and sometimes financial assistance to nongovernmental organizations and other countries trying to combat crimes against humanity.

An American journalist living in Russia says in the age of Donald Trump, Russian perceptions of America are tinged with mistrust and vice versa.

A new study shows paying landowners in Uganda not to cut down their trees works and is a cost-effective way to reduce carbon emissions.

A new oil pipeline from Alberta to British Columbia would cross native land and send more than six times as many tankers through crowded waterways between Vancouver and Seattle. That has people on both sides of the border vowing to fight.

Linkin Park's Chester Bennington was found dead at his home in California on Thursday.

There's a lot to celebrate right now in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Mortality rates have been slashed, and for the first time ever, more people are getting treatment than not. But for women and young girls, the news is still grim.

Author Jeff Potter shares tips on no-heat dishes, from ceviche to gravlax.

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promises to make steep cuts in climate pollution while still increasing the flow of dirty tar sands oil. It's a high-wire act that has him taking fire from both sides.

Poland was once the pinnacle of democracy in central Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union. But as the country lurches to the right politically, it may find its position in the EU, and as a democratic country, threatened.

Laleh Khadivi's new novel chronicles the transformation of a lackadaisical, college-bound Californian into a soldier for militant Islam.

President Donald Trump made the decision to drop the program supporting rebels fighting Syria's Bashar al-Assad nearly a month ago, according to The Washington Post. The rebels say they were totally blindsided and disappointed.

The Bavarian city of Traunreut, population 21,000, is working to integrate 600 refugees. Some locals are helping. Others are rallying against the arrivals. One thing is for sure: It's a challenging situation for everyone.

As the Los Angeles Times journalist Ivan Penn explains, California has actually paid neighboring states to take its surplus renewable energy — dozens of times this year.

Monday's episode of the reality show "The Bachelorette" featured Dean Unglert, who introduced Bachelorette Rachel Lindsay to his father — a Sikh convert.

A decade ago, Vladimir Putin appeared to be ignoring the internet. Now he seems to be wildly successful at exploiting it.

Summer is high season in places like Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But this year, many businesses there haven't been able to get the H-2B visas they need for their international workers.

The Daas family has been without a home since early 2015. After ISIS invaded their hometown of Palmyra, Syria, they escaped to Turkey, then took a boat to Greece and are now trying to rebuild their lives in Bavaria, Germany. It's one thing to find safety, but they're discovering it's much harder to make a home.

National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore is on a mission to photograph roughly 12,000 species for his "Photo Ark."

An unknown group of robbers broke into a British farm and made off with the prized cheddar cheese.

After the US announced its new sanctions, Iran hit back, calling them "worthless" and "illegal" and announcing its own sanctions "against American people and entities that have acted against the Iranian people and other Muslim peoples of the region."

Jack Shaheen, a Lebanese-American, spent decades documenting and criticizing the way the movie and television industry stereotypes Arabs and Middle Easterners. He passed away last week.