The World: Latest Stories

South African-born Gift Ngoepe debuts at second base for the Pittsburgh Pirates.

The Oscar-winning director was open to the world and thought the world had something to teach him. He was especially fascinated by Haiti.

In slashing financial support for the United Nations Population Fund, the Trump administration revived nefarious claims that the agency supports coercive abortion of girls. What's behind this claim.

Two Armenian PhDs, just trying to push their country forward by making jokes about it. Meet the anchors of Armenia's first satirical news program, ArmComedy.

The Trump administration promised a $1 trillion investment to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure, but it has yet to offer design or budget details.

"The use of force does not solve differences and will only lead to bigger disasters," Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned.

Former chiefs of USAID say slashing foreign assistance and folding USAID into the State Department will have many unintended consequences.

Tune in and you’ll see reindeer, reindeer, and more reindeer. And some incredible scenery.

After sixteen hours of debate, the Texas House approved a bill that allows local police to ask individuals to prove their immigration status. The bill still faces several legislative hurdles before it becomes law.

Trump told NASA: Get to Mars before I leave office, OK? But the new timetable has experts in space travel checking their math.

The World's host, Marco Werman, has lived in the same Cambridge community for more than 15 years. It was hard to see the change, until it smacked him in the face.

After speaking on the phone with his Canadian and Mexican counterparts, now Trump says the North American Free Trade Agreement will instead be renegotiated.

California's world history textbooks have been updated with language that is dividing the state's Indian Americans.

At supervised injection sites, users get clean needles and a booth where they can inject drugs while a nurse watches. The nurse can help with the injection if need be.

The Trump White House proposes slashing tax rates for individuals and businesses. But how will the US make up the revenue? One economist says the country can look overseas for some inspiration.

He's "6 ft tall and 5,000 pounds if it matters."

What's with that butterfly sticker on the professor's door? For some undocumented students at Swarthmore College, it means a sign of support for the challenges they face.

As their popularity spreads worldwide, some say Turkish soap operas are sending the wrong message about women.

It's been 25 years since I last visited Pakistan. A lot has changed, but life is still flourishing.

“If we’re not taking care of those aquifers, we will not have access to the resource. We cannot do anything if we do not have the basic input, the water.”

Muslim Americans are worried in the age of Trump. But feeling singled out is nothing new.

McKim is serving a life sentence without parole for murdering Wendy Wagnon in 1999. But back in 2013, it was determined that Wagnon actually died from a meth overdose.

In Japan, it's thought that thousands of people disappear themselves, driven underground by the stigma of debt, job loss, even failing an exam.

Pirsig, 88, died at his home in Maine on Monday.

They can't move or control their body temperature. And understanding that is key to understanding a changing world.

Their last president was impeached. As voters get ready to pick a new leader on May 9, Korean Buddhists say now's the time to pray for peace and national healing.

And is there a sustainable way to eat this much fish?

Opposition to President Donald Trump's Mexico border wall remains strong on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers say they'll block the project even if it means shutting down the government.

Hollywood doesn't think Katie Malia is Asian enough. Or white enough. So the aspiring actress made this web series as her own comic relief.

Insurgents in Afghanistan carried out the deadliest attack of the war on the Afghan military last week. The violence is raising fresh questions about the direction of the war, and the US' role in it. Defense Secretary James Mattis is visiting to assess calls for more US troops.

Rodrigo Tot helped his community win a landmark court decision that ordered the government to issue land titles to the Q’eqchi people and put environmental safeguards in place to stop destructive nickel mining in the region.

Sure, some students can manage to study abroad. But a cultural exchange program in Minnesota is putting a twist on the concept, making it local and far more accessible.

While the Trump administration could be willing to work with the Democratic demands for insurance subsidies to support low-income families on Obamacare, there's one issue that they do not want to budge on: funding for the president's border wall.

It's a win for the environment, and the government says it will retrain artisanal miners for new careers, but they're skeptical of politicians' promises.

April 20 marks the anniversary of the worst offshore oil spill in United States history. A scientist and a playwright discuss how oil still marks the Gulf region.

Climate scientists are seeing signs of another El Niño forming off the coast of South America.

Researchers have enlisted some of the world’s largest telescopes to search for extraterrestrial life. But what exactly are they looking for?

For one, it doesn’t always cause a bull's-eye rash.

Thursday's terror attack will undoubtedly have an influence on the French election, but how won't be clear until Sunday.

After decades when democracy was on the rise, the current trend seems to be of aspiring autocrats riding populist waves to power, and then misusing that power to amass wealth for themselves and their families. Forget what President Donald Trump says about journalists being the "Enemy of the People," says Drew Sullivan, head of the Organized Crime & Corruption Reporting Project — investigative reporting has never been more important.

The civil wars raging in Syria are pretty horrific for most people involved. But for North Korea, the carnage has had a silver lining. They've made a ton of money selling weapons and ammunition.

Over the centuries London has had more than its fair share of bank robberies, diamond thefts and even train robberies. This month, police solved something a little more exotic: the great British taxidermy heist.

A watchdog group that tracks human rights in the South Korean military says the army leadership is violating its own regulations by going after soldiers suspected of homosexual activity.

In roughly 200 cities across the globe, marchers on Sunday will advocate for everything from GMOs to federal science funding.

While humans construct our physical spaces based on individual preferences and then mitigate the consequences later, nature inherently adopts flexibility as a cornerstone of design.

A doctor in Michigan just got arrested on charges of performing female genital mutilation on young girls. For many, it came as a shock — but mutilating women is a widespread practice around the globe, and it's happening in the US.

"In France, we talk constantly about Muslims, especially Muslim women, but you never get to hear us." That's why some French Muslim women started the online magazine, Lallab.