The World: Latest Stories

Election officials are expected to announce the presidential election winner on Friday night, six days after the election.

Some of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest and most prominent figures are being held inside the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh, as part of what's being dubbed an anti-corruption crackdown by Saudi's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. The BBC's Lyse Doucet is the first journalist allowed inside the hotel.

On Tuesday, ICE agents apprehended 30-year-old Genaro Rojas-Hernandez from inside a courthouse. There have been 40 courthouse arrests across New York City so far this year.

Magali Torres, who lives in Florida and is originally from Mexico, is closely watching whether Congress and the White House can agree on a path that will allow her to continue to work legally in the US and worry less about deportation.

Bambadjan Bamba worked hard for years to become a star in Hollywood. Now he's putting it all at risk, because he says he can no longer afford to be silent.

The continuing investigation into Russian manipulation of the US election has helped fuel a media spat between the two countries.

President Donald Trump has tweeted controversial, inflammatory and false information for years. Since 2016, someone else has helped him do it.

By singing and writing a song in Choctaw, singer-songwriter Samantha Crain is trying to push the culture past its colonial influence.

In partnership with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Insect Pest Control Lab in Vienna, Austria, WeRobotics is testing out the technology and hopes to put it to use in Zika hotspots in Latin America.

Reem Kassis left her Palestinian family behind in Jerusalem, but she's captured their culture and cuisine in her new cookbook.

US President Donald Trump after he castigated Prime Minister Theresa May for rebuking him over anti-Muslim tweets, even as individual politicians expressed outrage.

Laicie Heeley, host of new PRI podcast Things That Go Boom, answers big questions looming after North Korea successfully launched an ICBM with range to strike the United States.

Access to basic sanitation is something we take for granted here in the United States. We usually have access clean and safe facilities when we need it. But in other parts of the world, access to clean and safe toilets is more difficult. And for some women and girls, not having access to private toilets exposes them to attacks and harassment.

President Nixon's unexpected visit to communist China in 1971 changed its relationship with the US.

Howard Dean believes that the future of the Democratic Party lies in turning out more millennial voters.

Where does Mexican-ness or Haitian-ness end, and American-ness begin?

South Korea’s sweeping anti-graft law is meant to eliminate corruption, but some Koreans say it's cutting into the country's gift-giving tradition.

A Bosnian Croat wartime commander has died after ingesting 'poison' after a verdict was upheld at The Hague.

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said the far-right group,"Britain First is a vile, hate-fueled organization whose views should be condemned."

An Arab Israeli woman with three daughters decided to make sure her next pregnancy would be a boy. So she traveled to the West Bank for a sex selection procedure that is highly regulated in Israel.

There is a reason why Western Europe’s loud acceptance of equality hasn't yet made a significant difference in much of the world: because of the US. Like civil rights and the women’s suffrage movement, it is only when America declares the debate closed that it will finally be closed in much of the world. If not legally, then at least culturally.

Owners of the Trump Ocean Club International Hotel and Tower in Panama City are trying to get rid of the Trump name on their property, according to a report by the Associated Press.

Comedian Hari Kondabolu explains that his new documentary "The Problem with Apu" is not just about a cartoon.

Jamaica legalized medical marijuana and created a new licensing system to allow farmers to legally grow cannabis for medical, scientific or therapeutic purposes. But the fees are expensive and small farmers say they’re being left by the wayside.

Alaska has the largest oil field in North America, with an 800-mile pipeline that moves the oil from the far North Slope to Valdez. A proposed deal with China would build a new pipeline to transport natural gas.

Pope Francis arrived in Yangon, Myanmar on Monday. The UN and the US have accused the country of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims, and the question on many peoples' minds is whether the pope will use the term "Rohingya" to describe the group.

Refugees crammed onto rickety boats for the trip from Libya to Italy are increasingly being intercepted and sent back to Libya.

The target of the massacre in Egypt on Friday was a Sufi mosque. But just what is a Sufi? And why are they being targeted by apparent ISIS sympathizers?

If the US leaves NAFTA, “we might have to go straight to Canada for our supplies,” says a Tijuana brewer.

Remember "Drill, baby, drill"? Well, it's back — and this time it's likely to become a reality.

Bee researcher Shalene Jha dishes on the secret life of bees.

Scientists are concerned that carbon released from the Earth’s soil as a result of climate change will stimulate more warming. A yearslong study attempts to quantify the risk.

A longtime program to collar the endangered cats may be coming to an end. What happens next?

There's a secret US detention system in the War on Drugs, too — and this one is aboard US Coast Guard cutters sailing in the Pacific Ocean.

The new comic series Dark Fang pits a sexy vampire against polluters. The sexy part is readily apparent. But the plot promises to break some new ground for the Adult Comics genre.

Big automakers have begun planning for a future built around the electric car, but House Republicans have a different idea: They want to end the tax credit that helped make EVs more desirable for consumers.

What role should tech titans like Facebook have in global politics?

Yasmine Mustafa has designed a small pendant that can be worn as a necklace. But it's also armed so wearers can alert someone if they're in danger.

Yia Vang, who moved to the US from a Thai refugee camp as a kid, explains his family's rites of passage, and why beets can be controversial.

The United Nations says 620,000 Rohingya have arrived in Bangladesh since August to form the world's largest refugee camp after a military crackdown in Myanmar that Washington has said clearly constitutes "ethnic cleansing."

International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) — created by the UN in 1993 to address war crimes during the Bosnian war — has issued its last conviction.

The conviction of former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladić divided people in his former home country.

Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel about forbidden love among the Puritans captured our admiration for independence—and our craving for scandal.

President Donald Trump's decision to end temporary protections for Haitian immigrants shocked recipients, many of whom are now faced with returning to a country they haven't seen in years.

Hundreds of floats and balloons will be hovering over the streets of Manhattan on Thanksgiving. Building floats and balloons — it's big business, literally and figuratively.

Cindy Sherman launched her career by placing herself in photos that look like movie stills for imaginary movies. These are snapshots of America's collective unconscious.

Cole Porter was out of the musical theater scene during the 1930s, as American mores grew looser and more risqué. But instead of getting stodgy, he wrote the classic celebration of freedom from social constraints.

Photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa put together a virtual reality exhibition from the front lines of international conflicts for a museum at MIT.

UN judges Wednesday sentenced former Bosnian Serbian commander Ratko Mladic to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of genocide and war crimes in the brutal Balkans conflicts over two decades ago.

Musician Thomas Mapfumo made no secret of his disdain for Zimbabwe's deposed leader.