The World: Latest Stories

They were part of a group of friends celebrating the 30th anniversary of graduating high school in Rosario, Argentina.

A Saudi rapper's interview with The Takeaway led journalists to uncover a soft power campaign.

Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi describes a way to pull his nation back from the brink.

When Ali Cobby Eckermann was a teenager, she ran away to the desert in central Australia. Her drug use and reckless behavior had spiraled out of control. Years later, Eckermann would put all that pain into writing and become one of Australia’s most celebrated poets.

Violence against the Rohingya minority in Myanmar is being partially fueled by misinformation and propaganda spread on Facebook. But is the company doing anything about it?

Allegations of Russian meddling in the elections were “laughable, unqualified, groundless and unsubstantiated” said Peskov, in a call to reporters. Rather than Russia, he added, the indictments proved “other countries” were involved.

A laboratory in Hamburg tries to catch illegal importers in the act.

Moscow insisted Tuesday there is no evidence it interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, after three aides to President Donald Trump's campaign were charged as part of an investigation into Russian efforts to influence the vote.

Astros' Yuli Gurriel has apologized and will be suspended from five games next season.

It's been 30 years since the death of revolutionary leader Thomas Sankara.

The FBI arrested George Papadopoulos in July. What do we know about Papadopoulos, his background and his role in the campaign?

On the front lines of the war on marijuana cultivation, Albanian police face a tenacious crop and an unwelcoming population.

Halloween is the candy-coated version of a longtime tradition of celebrating the inevitability of death. Photographer and author Paul Koudounaris has traveled the world to document ossuaries and charnel houses — rooms filled with, and often decorated with, human skulls and bones. Who knew death could be so beautiful?

Laura Boldrini wants Italian citizens to have the right tools to protect themselves from lies. And she's starting with a program that teaches teenagers to detect fake news.

Mexico’s federal government said that 1,821 historically significant buildings were damaged in the September earthquakes.

Some of the most visible lasting symbols of the Cold War era are the black-and-yellow signs marking nuclear fallout shelters across the country. The man responsible for the design of that sign — Robert Blakeley — died on Oct. 25 at the age of 95.

The family that owns the company that manufactures OxyContin — the Sackler family — is looking increasingly outward, to other countries, to market their product.

The World Meteorological Organization says atmospheric concentrations of CO2 surged to a new record level in 2016. That puts even greater pressure for countries to cut carbon pollution to avoid catastrophic climate change.

Days after being banned from advertising on Twitter, Russian-backed media outlet RT has shared some details about the content of its advertisements in the run-up to the 2016 US presidential election.

The state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico is still recovering from the strongest earthquake to hit the country in a century. The epicenter of the damage occurred on the main route that Central American migrants travel on to the US, complicating their journey north.

Ballet choreographer Benjamin Millepied is working to make ballet companies more inclusive and diverse.

Donald Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was charged Monday with conspiracy against the United States and money laundering, the first to come out of a sprawling probe into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

Can states change a system controlled by the people in power meant to keep them in power?

Climate disruption can be tough on agriculture, and now there appears to be another danger to staple crops as carbon dioxide levels rise: nutrient loss.

We’ve all heard adults cooing to babies in “baby talk.” Now, researchers are learning more about why we do it.

Dotting your i’s and crossing your t’s is one thing. But mathematician Eugenia Cheng says obsessing over perfection leads to a lot of wasted effort.

“Everybody whose genetic roots are outside Africa are partly descended from Neanderthals,” one geneticist says.

Plants are responding to rising levels of carbon dioxide by performing more photosynthesis and using water more efficiently.

The Sacklers have made billions of dollars off of opioids.

The TSA is requiring airlines to interview passengers heading to the US at check-in and boarding gates all over the world.

John Morales was one of the first TV meteorologists to start talking about how climate change will impact his audience. Intense weather hit close to home this fall, as Hurricane Maria struck his home island of Puerto Rico.

When you walk around New Orleans, you can see the Haitian influence everywhere, from the creole cottages to the jambalaya. And thousands of New Orleanians trace their ancestry back to the island. This connection had one journalist asking, is the feeling mutual?

Forty years ago, the Sex Pistols wasn’t just releasing an album — it was also defining a moment in the culture that lives on in punk and its progeny today.

Researchers studied two species of pine that live at the tree line and found them moving up rather rapidly — with one species leapfrogging another in the competition for new real estate.

Head wrapping goes beyond style for one Detroit anthropologist. It’s also a way to bridge cultures.

The Catalan Parliament approved the region becoming a republic, but the Spanish government is moving to take back control.

A murder on a Portland light rail train brought back a lot of memories of painful times in the city's history.

Macer Gifford gave up a career in London as a currency trader to fight ISIS with Kurdish troops in Syria. He's uncertain what will happen if he heads back to Britain.

Chinese American writer Lenora Chu was delighted when she secured a coveted spot a Shanghai kindergarten for her son. Then came the stress, anxiety and confusion. Chu's new book about China's education system is called "Little Soldiers."

How drive-in movies helped Twyla Tharp become a world-class choreographer.

She gave up ballet, but Yillah Natalie discovered her life’s work in U2’s “Mysterious Ways”: belly dancing.

From History Channel to Dancing with the Stars, Yowei Shaws' parents do the tango.

Ken Laws was in his 40s when he decided to shift his center of gravity.

“An American in Paris” was one of Hollywood’s most famous Golden Age musicals. And then it became an equally impressive Broadway musical.

America leads the world in drug overdose deaths and opioid consumption. And it has a lot to do with the ways prescription painkillers are advertised and regulated in the US compared to other countries.

Oaxaca is moving along with rebuilding after Mexico's worst earthquake of the century. But some are hoping to slow down the process.

Many experts believe renewable energy and distributed microgrids can save costs and be a better solution to extreme weather. Rebuilding Puerto Rico’s energy infrastructure could present an opportunity to make this a reality.

The European Union is also reeling from the Harvey Weinstein scandal.