The World: Latest Stories

A project underway in Washington, DC, is helping to protect habitats for struggling songbirds coming up from the Caribbean and Latin America. And children whose families come from the same regions as the birds are helping out.

Identity, integration and Islam were critical issues in the Dutch spring elections in the Netherlands. At the heart of the debate was who belongs in the Netherlands.

President Trump "probably out of ignorance or disinterest" told visiting Russians intelligence that "was not ours to share," says a former CIA and NSA chief.

The migrant death rate on the Mediterranean is so far triple that of last year.

What security measures can users take against cyberattacks? And in the event of a successful ransomware intrusion, should users pay for their data?

The malicious "ransomware" virus that first emerged on Friday has left Russians wondering why the attack had disproportionately targeted their country.

How one community group is helping low-income residents — many of them immigrants — realize their tenant rights.

President Truman is the only man in history to have ordered a nuclear attack, in Japan at the end of World War II.

As the permafrost melts in the arctic town of Iqaliut, people are dealing with problems they never saw coming. What are the Canadian and local governments doing to help?

Whether it's a solid line or a dotted line, it's all politics.

Back in the 1850s, the US military created a Camel Corps for exploring desert territory and expanding the American frontier. That's how Philip Tedro, aka Hadji Ali, aka Hi Jolly, came to the US.

The Obama administration rule gave authority to the US Fish and Wildlife Service to regulate hunting in certain areas of Alaska. Congress wants to return authority to the state. Now a lawsuit is pending.

“There are black cosplayers in Canada, black cosplayers in the United Kingdom, black cosplayers in the Netherlands, and it's just so, so beautiful to look at.”

Mary Webster, believed to be a witch, was hanged by members of her early Massachusetts community, in an act that preceded the Salem witch hysteria of 1692. She survived a long night dangling from a tree and inspired the author Margaret Atwood.

Behind the scenes of the magazine's startling interview with the US president.

US climate experts will be asked how the country plans to meet carbon emission reductions with President Trump's new environmental policies.

Back in March, a Category 4 cyclone hit the island of Madagascar. At least 81 people were killed and 6,000 others were displaced. The cyclone also washed away one of the island's main sources of income: vanilla.

The pope is visiting the shrine this month to canonize a brother and sister who saw a vision of the Virgin Mary 100 years ago.

NASA and high-tech billionaires aren't the only ones who want to get to the red planet.

The Trump administration is contemplating extending a ban on laptops on US-bound flights to all European countries, and that has some aviation security experts scratching their heads.

Amid mounting pressure from European leaders, Facebook and other social media companies are taking steps to combat the spread of fake news.

The coverage of the firing of James Comey as director of the FBI has been extensive, and in some cases, dramatic. Many people are bandying about terms like autocrat, fascist, demagogue, failed state and of course, constitutional crisis. So, we thought it might be useful to define these terms.

The creator of MuslimGirl.com reflects on how "this little thing that I started in my bedroom when I was a teenager has really grown to take on a life of its own."

The nuclear threat from North Korea is a big deal. But in South Korea, some Catholic leaders see a different nuclear problem, right in their own backyard. Catholic clergy are taking the lead in protests against South Korea's dependence on nuclear energy.

"They make me bleed inside every time I talk to them," says Saber Askar, a US citizen from Yemen, with family still in the war-torn country. "I don’t know what to do. Every time I call, I’m afraid they're not going to answer anymore."

It may look like something designed by a mad cartoonist, but it is the actual nose of the star-nosed mole and it is one of the most sensitive organs in the mammalian world.

Trump's shock dismissal of James Comey — the man overseeing federal investigations into suspected Kremlin interference in the 2016 vote — has sparked a political firestorm in Washington and plunged his young presidency in turmoil.

Journalists and academics across the globe see alarming parallels between the US and deeply troubled countries whose leaders go after those who investigate them.

Jeffrey Rosen, a professor of law at George Washington University and president of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, says President Donald Trump was acting within his authority when he dismissed FBI director James Comey.

In 2015, the University of Cambridge offered places to 1,788 male undergraduates. But only 15 of those undergraduates were black.

Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president.

President Trump fired his FBI Director. Cartoonists: pick up your pencils.

Veterans tell us what they think of a plan that might increase the US presence in Afghanistan.

Café Tacvba puts out its first album in five years, and rock is just one of the ingredients.

During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, it was revealed that both former President Barack Obama and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned the Trump administration about Gen. Michael Flynn.

The Trump administration's budget eliminates programs that help reduce the risks of lead paint exposure in children, alarming doctors and other public health advocates.

These women vets are sharing their stories for a cartoon book about their time in the service.

This week, The World in Words podcast visits the Moldova Authentic Restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts. Patrick Cox and Nina Porzucki talk with restaurant owners Artur and Sandra Andronic about their mother tongue. Also, what happens if you put a group of monolingual speakers of different languages on a deserted island? Linguist Derek Bickerton was determined to find out.

From June 2015 to June 2016, police arrested more young people in Orange County than Miami-Dade County, where the population is nearly double. Nearly 64 percent of those incarcerated are black boys.

Left-leaning Moon Jae-in won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide.

At 39, the former investment banker will become France's youngest-ever president when he is inaugurated next weekend after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday.

Another election, another hack. So was this a “fail” for Russia’s propaganda agencies?

Since 2004, Boston University professor Richard Primack and his students have been documenting the same things as Henry David Thoreau did in his book, "Walden."

They had their mother's blessing, but she misses them terribly.

It's been 10 years since Orchestra Baobab's last album. However, one of their key members didn't take part on their new release because he wanted to continue to practice law.

Science gave us penicillin, space travel and computers. But, it also gave us TNT, guns and heroin. Paul Offit tells us about when science goes wrong.

Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Honduran migrants are participating in the Caravan of Refugees to advocate for the right to request asylum.

A new law allows internet service providers to mine and sell your internet browsing history. Two privacy experts outline practical steps you can take to help mask your online communications.

They want to get away from the tourists and their iPhone cameras.