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What happened when iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda and artist JR teamed up for a road trip? They brought art to the people of rural France.

Camille's latest album is titled "Oui." There's texture and wordplay. And you may not always understand what Camille is singing about, but she's OK with that.

Some Syrian parents are marrying off their young daughters to protect them from the ravages of war, but these girls yearn for an education.

“It’s not just one species, it seems there’s basically a kind of wholesale collapse of wild insects,” says Dave Goulson, a co-author of a new study published in the online journal PLoS ONE on Wednesday.

He may be facing charges over alleged EU subsidy fraud, but billionaire businessman Andrej Babis still appears poised to win this weekend's Czech general election pushing his trademark anti-corruption and anti-euro ticket.

Estimates range from the hundreds of thousands to a million who will leave Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.

After brutal battling over Raqqa, challenges lie ahead for the alliance now holding the Syrian city: Kurdish and Arab fighters, backed by the US, have to rule over a Sunni Arab city that they destroyed, and a population that views them with suspicion.

When The World's Monica Campbell returned to her home in Mexico City, she arrived to chaos. People were trying their best to rebuild or they were leaving altogether. Her neighborhood in particular was among the hardest hit.

A new presidential directive on refugees says prospective entrants to the US must meet certain unspecified assimilation criteria. Experts say this is the first time they've ever seen such language and are concerned over its implications.

“There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate” wrote Daphne Caruana Galizia, barely 30 minutes before she was killed.

The latest version of President Donald Trump's travel ban was set to take effect Wednesday. But it was stopped. Again.

This is why the head of Indian Affairs offered up a Colorado reservation as a site to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II.

The Kurds occupied Kirkuk at the behest of the Americans and a promise that they could keep the territory they took from ISIS.

Barbara Dane, founder of Paredon Records tells us where to find protest music today.

From satellites and aircraft, scientists can examine the structure of ecosystems, even their chemical properties, to determine their health.

Hundreds of deadly wildfires in Portugal and Spain have killed more than 40 people.

The North Koreans called him "the king of US spies." But the US military nearly erased the story of Donald Nichols, a US Air Force officer who played an outsized role in the Korean War.

Some former Raqqa residents worry about what's next for their city.

Containerized shipping has revolutionized consumer behaviors, but it presents a new set of logistical challenges.

The Kurds of northern Iraq are no longer in charge of Kirkuk, the city they protected from ISIS. Ben Van Heuvelen, editor-in-chief of Iraq Oil Report, explains what's at stake.

The official count is now 48 deaths. But reporters thought that number seemed off.

Researchers in New Zealand are learning more about what makes the little maggots light up.

Iraqi forces took the disputed city of Kirkuk from the control of the Kurds — both allies in the US-led coalition against ISIS. President Donald Trump says the US won't take sides.

One Minnesota man was in Mogadishu for a job interview. Another was about to meet members of his family. Then Somalia's deadliest terrorist attack happened.

In January 2015, Malcolm Bird took his 1-year-old daughter, Collette, to an emergency room after she started bleeding heavily from a cut on her finger. The doctor cleaned up the cut, put a Band-Aid on it, and sent them home.

Clifton Daniel used to dislike living in his grandfather Harry Truman’s shadow. Now, he’ll play him onstage.

Projections suggest far-right Sebastian Kurz, to become world's youngest leader.

Occasional fires are important for the cycles of many ecosystems, but this year’s heavy fire season shows the mark of human influence.

In remote areas of the world, traditional lab testing for malaria can be difficult. Researchers are finding unexpected consequences in the use of rapid diagnostic tests.

Whether it's a scientific study in an online database or a simple cellphone photo of a species posted on Facebook, the surge of online data on rare animals and plants is inadvertently fueling a vast illegal trade.

In films, our memories can be recorded and downloaded. Neuroscientist Steve Ramirez weighs in on the real-life state of memory research.

Finding sea monsters in Kansas is “pretty low tech,” one paleontologist says. “You walk around and look at the ground until you find something.”

“We have a stereotype about the way that real rape victims are supposed to act."

This week, 15 acid attack victims from Bangladesh were part of a fashion show organized by a UK charity to raise awareness.

Entrepreneurs and leaders in Iran’s budding tech scene watched closely as President Donald Trump refused to certify the Iran nuclear deal.

A new postage stamp in the Republic of Ireland is causing a stink because it honors Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara, who was of partial Irish descent. But people in Ireland — and Miami — are denouncing Che — and the stamp — because of his history of violence.

Thousands of Spanish speakers in wine country are struggling to find emergency information in Spanish. We meet a bilingual environmental educator and radio host who has been bridging communities and helping people isolated by language.

The VA team goes from one hurricane shelter to another, assisting veterans.

Writer Viet Thanh Nguyen lives the insider-outsider life of a refugee. His fictional depictions of the effects of displacement has earned him a MacArthur "genius grant."

A New York Times correspondent talked with some of the ISIS recruits whose leaders instructed them to surrender.

Dave Rank was the top US diplomat in China until President Donald Trump announced he would pull the US out of the Paris Climate Agreement. That's when he knew his 27-year career in the US foreign service would be over.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it has been collecting social media information from visa applicants and immigrants. It said it plans to expand gathering of social media data to include aliases, associated identifiable information and search results. Privacy and civil rights advocates are up in arms.

Alex Diaz spent eight years in prison for armed robbery. Now, with help from College Bound Dorchester, he's attending college.

Facebook, Alphabet and Tesla are among the tech giants stepping up efforts to help hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico. Puerto Ricans have differing opinions about those efforts.

A lot of things had to go wrong for the United States Men's National Team to miss out on a trip to the 2018 World Cup. But this American soccer disaster is about more than just bad luck.

Politics are a part of sports even in China.

Solar power barely existed in Puerto Rico before Hurricane Maria, but with the island suffering from a post-hurricane power crisis, solar companies see an opportunity to help — and get a foothold.

This father of seven is one example of a global phenomenon — people being displaced by the effects of climate change.

The objects left behind in the desert — bloody socks, diaper bags and water bottles — give Americans a deeper understanding of who immigrants are.

For a decade, journalist Paula Froelich was the deputy editor of the New York Post’s celebrity and gossip section, Page Six. Like many others who have traveled in Hollywood circles, she has a story about the now-infamous media mogul Harvey Weinstein.