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She was a great actress — and maybe even a greater acting teacher.

The conceptual artist challenges the conventions of museum display and offers his personal tour of the Met.

A song that has been unidentified for over 35 years.

Five years on, relatives of the 43 missing students in Mexico continue to press for answers, and justice in the case, but to no avail.

The Misk Foundation, founded and chaired by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, held a controversial event on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly this week.

At the UN Climate summit, small island nations including Antigua and Barbuda pledged set more ambitious carbon-cutting goals under then Paris Agreement but large emitters were largely silent.

Less than a year into his presidency, Jair Bolsonaro has been on a mission to rehabilitate his and Brazil's image, particularly after international criticism for his handling of the Amazon wildfires and stance on Indigenous rights.

Québec's new religious symbols ban is now in effect as teachers return to school under the new regulations. For many, they're unsure how to navigate the law that says they may keep wearing headscarves and other religious headwear — but only if they don't change jobs.

There are only 10 known works attributed to artist Cimabue, considered the father of modern painting — until a woman had an art appraiser inspect an old painting that had been hanging in her home.

Advocates say the politics of global warming are changing rapidly with more public support for aggressive action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions — and that Merkel’s government isn’t keeping up.

Xiye Bastida is one of many young poster children who’s come to represent the moral imperative to act on climate change. And now that she’s helped start a global conversation, she wants to do more than talk.

With the recent climate strike, children are taking big steps to tackle climate change. This is particularly important as climate change can have negative implications for children's health and development.

Picking up and moving to new opportunities has always been a part of the American dream. But that narrative has shifted in modern America. As well-paying jobs are increasingly concentrated in cities with high living costs, some Americans find themselves unable to pursue the careers that could most help them and their families.

"There's always something you can do" in the face of challenges, says the former US ambassador to the United Nations in a discussion on her new memoir, "The Education of an Idealist."

At least one afternoon a week, a group of high school girls carve out some space in the quietest area they can find to huddle around a laptop. They call themselves the Mayan Girls.

Does $250 million in US military aid to Ukraine have anything to do with a whistleblower's "urgent concern" about US President Donald Trump? The World speaks with Nina Jankowicz of the Wilson Center.

With world leaders about to gather in New York for a UN Climate Action Summit next week, millions of young people from Australia to Iceland took off from school or work on Friday to demand urgent measures to stop environmental catastrophe.

At around 3 a.m. one night in 2017, Bilol, an Uzbek immigrant, heard a knock on his door.

Mosquito-borne illnesses are on the rise, and climate change will worsen the threat. Little-known local agencies are the main line of defense.

Gruff Rhys is known for Britain's indie rock band, Super Furry Animals. The Welsh musician's released a new solo album,"Pang!", earlier this month.

For nearly a decade, author Robert Macfarlane has been venturing into ice caves, exploring underwater rivers and crawling through catacombs. His latest book, "Underland: A Deep Time Journey," documents these travels and explores the human relationship with the "deep time" of down below.

The music industry veteran on her remarkable career in hip hop and her decades-long friendship with the Wu-Tang Clan.

The stand-up comedian reveals his gateway guilty pleasure.

The Tasmanian comedian’s show “Nanette” brought her overnight fame — and allegations that her success portended the death of comedy.

Secretary-General António Guterres has asked countries to come to the UN summit with specific plans for how they intend to cut carbon emissions in line with the most recent science, which says global greenhouse gas emissions must fall 45% by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

Michael Idov's new film, “The Humorist,” captures the oxymoronic nature of state-sanctioned Soviet comedy and the downfall of the system through the eyes of character, Boris Arkadiev.

US President Donald Trump announced a planned withdrawal from the Paris climate accords two years ago, but states and local governments haven't all followed suit. What impact has US policy whiplash had on the climate two years later?

Indonesia has set its sights on an eco-utopian capital to be built in Kalimantan on the island of Borneo. There's a glaring problem with the government's plan, though: The island is literally on fire.

After 42 years as a stateless Rohingya refugee, one Chicago man became a US citizen this summer.

US President Donald Trump has called off the talks between the US and Taliban that were taking place mostly in the Persian Gulf nation of Qatar. American negotiators have come home. But for some members of the Taliban, Qatar is home. How did that come to be, given that the Taliban is mainly an Afghan group?

As Israel's voters head to the polls, most expressed anxiety over the outcome of the election.

Deforestation in Brazil's Amazon is on the rise since the election of President Jair Bolsonaro, who has backed farmers and corporations bent on turning old growth forest into soy fields and cattle ranches.

The UN climate report found that limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (or 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) this century is still technically possible. But to keep that possibility alive, the world would have to cut its global greenhouse gas emissions by a whopping 45% from 2010 levels by 2030.

How a salsa album that many thought was doomed became a hit.

San Piero Patti, a picturesque, Sicilian town of less than 3,000 people, is taking extreme measures to try and bring new life to the region — including selling some of its abandoned houses for less than a shot of espresso. But will it work?

Saudi Arabia was, for decades, the world's largest oil producer. This disruption is the biggest supply shock in absolute terms in the last five decades and has important repercussions for US-Saudi relations.

A few days before a national election in Israel, there wasn’t a campaign poster in sight at a horse show in a rural area just outside of Nazareth.

Could an experiment at a small school in the middle of a field in rural North Dakota inspire a revolution in America’s public education system?

Australian Prime Minister Jacinta Arden announced new funding for mental health services and tighter gun laws.

Benjamin Netanyahu has served as Israel's prime minister for a decade. He has plenty of detractors. But even for them, this national election is all about him.

Lawyers in the US and Mexico say the decision to temporarily allow a new Trump administration asylum ban to go into effect could overwhelm Mexico's asylum system and encourage asylum seekers to take more covert routes into the US.

The indie music innovator on her new album and the music that inspires her.

In 1994, Biggie Smalls released one of the greatest hip hop records of all time.

The writer and proud Midwesterner talks Toni Morrison, Missy Elliott and her surprising musical obsession.

The fight over Shiyes — a remote railway outpost in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Province that is to play host to a giant landfill — first erupted a little over a year ago after local hunters came across a secret construction site deep in the region’s forests.

Facebook and others are stepping up to stop the spread of disinformation online in advance of Canada's federal parliamentary elections.

The climate crisis is now, says a professor born in the Bahamas, who argued in an essay this week that the disaster exposes existing inequality and hurts the most vulnerable populations.

America is at a turning point in which the events of 9/11 are shifting from memory to history. In his book, "The Only Plane in the Sky," author Garrett Graff compiles a comprehensive oral history timeline of Sept. 11, 2001, told via brief diary-like accounts.

Omer Azizi spent much of the past year developing an app that he calls Safar, meaning “journey” in both Farsi and Arabic, to solve the information gap that exists for refugees worldwide. It came out of an assignment in a unique class he took last year from the engineering school at USC.

Science historian Gabriela Soto Laveaga speaks to The World about the intersection between disease and immigration.