The World: Latest Stories

Creativity is almost always associated with the arts, but Gary Marcus tells us how creativity takes on different forms in all aspects of life.

Musicians are famous for their wild and often intoxicated lifestyles, but does a lack of inhibition in the brain actually make you a better musician?

The phrase "punching above its weight" is often used regarding Vladimir Putin's Russia. Nowhere is this more evident than in Russia's growing influence in the Middle East. And it seems that's mostly at the expense of the US.

Tesla recently unveiled the Tesla Semi, an all-electric truck. USA Today tech reporter Marco della Cava explains why it may not flip the industry just yet.

A US Marine met his future wife at the US Embassy in Seoul just months before the start of the Korean War. Their love story spanned seven decades.

Estonia has a population less than half that of Silicon Valley. But the small Baltic nation has managed to put itself on the map as on of the most digitally innovative countries in the world through it's E-Stonia project, which has digitized almost all aspects of citizen life.

Months after the island was hit by back-to-back hurricanes, Puerto Rico’s artistic community faces considerable challenges in its path toward recovery.

What if you could synthesize your voice with just one-minute of audio? Forget hypotheticals. You can.

The sense of siege that many angry white voters have felt in Alabama is now more common across the United States.

Two independent groups of researchers have found that between 15 and 38 percent of Harvey’s rainfall was likely caused by climate change.

FCC Chairman Ajit Pai refers to the planned repeal as “restoring internet freedom.”

In response to Monday's attack, President Donald Trump has reiterated his call to end “chain migration.”

At 93, Kalman Aron still paints everyday in his apartment in Beverly Hills. If he didn't paint, he says he would "die of boredom."

The final official step to realizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline was a Nebraska commission’s approval of the pipeline route, which it has now given. But the route is not the one the company preferred.

The University of Salford and the BBC Newsround studied kids ages 9 to 14 in the UK to see if they could recognize fake news.

Germany is shutting down the last of its underground coal mines next year, and the the way it's handling the end of this once-dominant industry could be a model for the US and other countries.

Poland's media regulator hit TVN24, a private, US-owned news station, with a $400,000 fine Monday over its coverage of an anti-government protest last year.

German media recently reported that some pilots have refused to fly Afghan refugees whose asylum applications have been rejected back to Afghanistan. But is their action out of sympathy?

Where have trickled-down policies been tried abroad? What were the results?

Bitcoin futures trading began on the Chicago Board Options Exchange on Sunday.

At the end of September, Congress allowed the deadline for refunding CHIP to expire. Replenishing funds for the program should be a slam dunk in Congress — there is usually bipartisan support for this program that helps kids — but CHIP still doesn’t have a funding plan, and the program is running on fumes.

Two years after a neighbor shot at their mosque, a leader at the Baitul Aman Mosque in Meriden has found an unlikely companion to show people true Islam: a local 76-year-old who is convinced organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood are plotting to impose Islamic law on America.

President Vladimir Putin ordered "a significant part" of Russia's military contingent in Syria to start withdrawing on Monday, saying Moscow and Damascus had achieved their mission of destroying Islamic State in just over two years.

New 'burgers' made from plant-based and genetically modified ingredients aim to replace traditional meat burgers, without sacrificing taste.

If you’re like most people, you probably think of coal as a chunk of black fossil fuel. Geologist Jen O’Keefe sees it differently.

Scientists still aren’t sure how bats avoid colliding with one another in swarms. Solving the mysteries of their “biological sonar” could give us clues for our own technology.

The world's biggest fashion retailer wants you to help them “close the loop” by donating your unwanted clothes. But only a small percentage of those cast-offs become new clothes.

Forget about Facebook, Twitter or WhatsApp if you're in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. Houthi authorities there have blocked social media while increasing security across the city. A resident tells what it's like to live under lockdown conditions.

Moria camp on the Greek island of Lesbos was designed to hold 2,000, but it is currently home to more than 6,000 refugees and migrants. Doctors working at the camp have seen a growing number of children suffer upper respiratory tract infections, colds, coughs, diarrhea and other illnesses associated with cramped and unsanitary conditions.

In this series that paints intimate portraits of royalty and chronicles major events of the 20th century, the music is as stirring as the story.

Telmary Díaz is a rapper from Havana. She's doing a few gigs here in the US at the moment, but her story of getting here was not pretty. Sonic mysteries at the US embassy meant the consular officers weren't there to offer visas. She almost didn't make it

The key is creating its own internet directory, or Domain Name System (DNS).

Even though Angela Merkel is its political leader, Germany has one of the worst gender wage gaps in Europe. But the picture is different in the East.

Rongmala Begum, like many of Bangladesh’s garment workers, doesn’t know how old she is. She doesn’t have a birth certificate, which is common for the rural poor here. She thinks she’s in her 40s. She has an identification card, but she can’t read it. Begum is illiterate.

Illustrator and political cartoonist Barry Blitt, best known for his New Yorker covers, is out with a new, retrospective coffee-table book of his “greatest hits.”

A small Florida community wants to build the greenest, most climate change-resilient hotel around. But some say the only way to built in a climate-friendly way there is not to build at all.

The all-star team behind Broadway’s hit “Fun Home” — artist Alison Bechdel, playwright Lisa Kron and composer Jeanine Tesori.

Playwright Paul Rudnick and theater critic Jesse Green weigh in on the evolution of gay characters and themes in 20th-century theater.

For immigration hardliners, the shooting death of Kathryn Steinle was an example of failed immigration enforcement and sanctuary policies. For those who study both immigration and the criminal justice system, it’s a distraction from a real conversation about immigration reform.

Photographer Art Wolfe has spent 40 years documents the natural world and some of the world's oldest cultures.