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In today's Detroit, there are many signs of a comeback: new businesses, stores, less urban blight and more entrepreneurs. And immigrants are bringing new energy to the city.

Her district, Teltow-Flaeming, is home to 165,00 people including about 2,500 refugees and asylum-seekers. The area has been recognized by the American NGO Cultural Vistas for its success in integrating newcomers. Yet, some people here are uneasy with their new neighbors. They say migrants bring crime and have harassed women on the street.

The category 5 storm hit Southeast Asia over the weekend.

After the catastrophic Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico in 2017, finding safe drinking water became one of the most difficult issues facing residents of the island. A team of volunteers stepped in to help.

It sounds weird to put babies on display at a fair. But Martin Couney did, and he saved thousands of lives in the process.

The biggest test of how much a state governor can really lead on a global problem like climate change came this week as Gov. Jerry Brown convened the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. California has provided leadership amid the vacuum left when the US federal government reversed course on climate policy. But there are things a state just can’t do.

Kathy Kriger was a commercial attaché for the American Embassy in Casablanca, Morocco. She was also a passionate entrepreneur who managed to create one of the most successful tourist attractions in Casablanca — Rick’s Café, an upscale restaurant and jazz club inspired by the famous nightclub in the 1942 classic "Casablanca."

What do you do when a country has officially declared your people extinct? One descendant of the Sinixt tribe went on an illegal elk hunt.

Sahar Fetrat was only 15 years old when she first picked up a camera. She used it to shoot a video for a school project. But soon she found it to be a powerful weapon against harassers.

The Department of Homeland Security notified Congress earlier this summer that it was transferring $10 million from FEMA to ICE to pay for the detention and transfer of undocumented immigrants. The World speaks with Mary Small of the nonprofit group, Detention Watch Network.

"We are not prepared" for the impacts of climate change that are only now beginning to appear, says one scientist.

Their day in court? That is less the case for some detained immigrants in the New York area, at least for those hoping for proceedings conducted in person.

How a breakout star of “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “The Leftovers” approaches playing scary characters.

How pop culture taught the ‘70s hippie counterculture that the end of the world was coming.

Some guitarists live in Django Reinhardt’s shadow. Stephane Wrembel chooses to live in his light.

Wars leave behind scars. Emotional ones. Physical ones. And for years, in Afghanistan, the physical ones were the ones surgeons fixed. But in the past couple of years, there’s been a boom in cosmetic surgery.

Fashion is powerful. It can be used as a political tool. It can be a statement about identity. It can also be healing. In Afghanistan, it is all of that and more.

Running a program like this is a big deal for the girls, who come from the poor outskirts of Agadir, a sleepy Moroccan city facing the Atlantic Ocean.

The Chinese government has gone to great lengths to keep a lid on its policies in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, the historic home for the Uighur Muslim population. But the details of what human rights advocates say is a massive crackdown on an entire culture are becoming more widely known.

In 2015 the government of Ontario, Canada, introduced a landmark new sex ed curriculum, designed to be more inclusive of transgender and gay people. But the program became deeply entangled with politics, and was pulled back by conservatives this summer. As kids head back to school this week, teachers remain at odds with the government over what students will learn.

In 2016, students at the American University in Kabul watched as gunmen opened fire on their school. More than a dozen people were killed and many more injured. But the attack didn't stop students from pursuing their dreams.

The Taliban forbids women to leave the house unless they are accompanied by a male relative. Feroza Mushtari, who was a teenager at the time of the Taliban takeover, defied that rule to save a pregnant woman's life.

New York Times journalist and former Marine infantry officer C.J. Chivers shows the realities of war through the lens of six combatants.

When Azul was five, doctors finally figured out the little girl had asthma. That’s become a big problem among children of farm workers, says Dr. Catherine Karr of the University of Washington.

Rosamari Palerm transferred to a school in Miami last fall after her school shut down in the wake of Hurricane Maria. She’s returned home to San Juan, but some of her classmates have stayed, making new homes in Miami.

Is the US safe for refugees? Canadians who say no think Canada may be breaking the law by ignoring the question

I asked Silvia how surviving these disasters has changed her life. “A lot,” she said. “What we have today could be gone tomorrow. “

How a 1961 comedy routine still holds up today.

How the hilariously profane comedian inspired a young girl from the Bronx.

How Marvin Hamlisch came up with the score for “The Sting.”

How Helen Hayes promoted a style of performance that still defines American acting today.

How do you write a hit musical number? And then do it again? And again?

Dan Coats, Mike Pence and Kirstjen Nielsen were among the favorites on Thursday among political gamblers taking an online stab at predicting which senior Trump administration official authored a scathing anonymous column in the New York Times.

The Trump administration argues NAFTA changes will create jobs. But the plan has many in the auto industry quite nervous.

Ira Lightman is a hero to some in the literary world, a villain to others.

Sabika Sheikh was killed along with seven other classmates and two teachers at Santa Fe High School in Texas last May. Her cousin, Shaheera Jalil Albasit, wants to keep building peace.

The two reporters, who were investigating the killing by the security forces of Rohingya villagers at the time of their arrest, had pleaded not guilty.

Washington's move against UNRWA was the latest in a series of US and Israeli policy decisions that have angered Palestinians and raised international concern.

The destruction of the building, once a palace for emperors that had fallen into disrepair, was an "incalculable loss for Brazil."

More than 260 schools in Puerto Rico closed this summer due to low enrollment after Maria. A group of women want to transform one in western Puerto Rico into an educational center to revive the region’s coffee industry.

The 1984 Operation Lionheart involved 131,565 British and allied troops. The Russians claim almost 300,000 personnel will be participating in Vostok-18 beginning on Sept. 11.

Everybody listens when you make it sound pretty.

How therapy revealed some of Richard Pryor’s best material.

What are the movies that Liz Diller likes best, from an architect’s point of view?

The humanitarian group Translators Without Borders has created a new app to help clear up the miscommunication.

Ragini Kashyap hosts pop-up dinners around the world in an effort to showcase the underlying similarities between cultures that are separated by conflict.

The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea is both a potential conflict zone and a tourist destination. An official South Korean tourism site notes more than a million people visit the DMZ every year.

Victoria Heaney started the #FreePeriodScotland campaign that caught the attention of the Scottish government and, ultimately, helped spur a conversation across Scotland about the fight against period poverty.

Air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen's war have caused heavy civilian casualties at marketplaces, weddings and on fishing boats, some of which may amount to war crimes, United Nations human rights experts said on Tuesday.

Outside of Chernobyl's "exclusion zone," things have never returned to normal. But life goes on.