The World: Latest Stories

Beer in Italy used to mean Peroni. While that's still the case, there is a growing microbrew scene that's producing some incredible brews.

Two Disney animators describe the ocean-sized task of making water “come alive.”

The DearTomorrow project invites people to share messages with their loved ones about how they’re working against climate disruption — to be read decades in the future.

In their new book, a climate scientist and a political cartoonist team up to debunk the arguments against climate change.

In his new book, the astronomer Dean Regas lays out some of his favorite trivia about the cosmos.

Results from Audubon’s 117th annual Christmas Bird Count are rolling in. What’s the bird count, you say?

Witold Waszczykowski mistakenly told reporters at the UN that he'd met with various nations "such as Belize or San Escobar." Thing is, that's not a nation. The internet is having a field day.

In the last days of his presidency, Barack Obama got rid of the policy that granted Cuban migrants asylum if they made it to US soil.

In Jan. 15, 1997, Princess Diana walked through an active minefield in Angola. Here's how land mine ban advocate Paul Heslop, who helped Diana detonate a land mine in front of an audience of international reporters, remembers the day.

The birthplace of modern polo is trying to save an indigenous breed of pony that's part of the region's heritage.

Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.

Germans are closely following President-elect Donald Trump's path to the White House, says Matthias Kolb, a reporter with the Munich-based daily Suddeutche Zeitung.

Residents of Oberwil-Lieli are divided over whether their town should continue to shut out refugees and pay a fine instead.

In his Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state, Exxon's former chief differs with Donald Trump on keeping the country in the international accord.

Obama's celebrity attracted important investment and development projects to Kogelo. With Trump coming in, villagers worry the world is about to leave them behind.

It used to be said that you could have your own opinion, but you couldn't have your own facts. But after decades of deliberate effort by some conservative Republicans to undermine public trust in government, the media and even in science, agreement about facts and even about the rules of the game in American democracy is not what it used to be. How did we get here? Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of "It's Even Worse Than it Was: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" weighs in.

On Wednesday President-elect Donald Trump chided a reporter when asked about releasing his tax returns to the public, saying, "The American public doesn't care." But is that true?

The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.

Senate committees will hear from three Trump Cabinet nominees on Thursday: retired Gen. James Mattis, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan, and Ben Carson.

The actor, who stars in a new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings, once made life hell for immigrants and African Americans on Boston’s racially divided streets.

Russian intelligence has always tried to gather compromising information, or "kompromat," on prominent figures at home and abroad. It's also known that they try to use this as influence to help Moscow's interests.

Norway is the first country to begin to shut off its FM radios, a move being watched by many other nations.

In the quest for a carbon-free future, scientists and entrepreneurs are developing a new generation of nuclear reactors.

There's been a lot of news out of Washington lately. But there's a lot more happening all over the world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists called the claims published by BuzzFeed and attributed to a former British intelligence operative a "total fake" — and "an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations."

Protests have struck Mexico City and Guadalajara in recent days after gas prices soared as much as 20 percent.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday furiously denied explosive claims that Russian intelligence has gathered compromising personal and professional information on him, hours before he faces the media for the first time since his election win.

Barack Obama's article in the top academic journal, Science, argues that the clean-energy revolution is irreversible and highlights the economic benefits of cutting carbon emissions and investing in renewable energy.

These "Blueprint Specials" were musical comedies meant to be performed by soldiers, for soldiers. Most of the songs were written by Frank Loesser, before he found fame with the musical "Guys and Dolls."

Compared to the rest of Germany, the economy in the former East Germany has struggled. In the small village of Golzow, the population had shrunk to the point where authorities were considering closing the village's only elementary school. That's when the town mayor invited Syrian refugee families to move in.

As a rookie reporter in 1939, British journalist Clare Hollingworth got the scoop of the century: World War II. It was the start of a spectacular career for a woman in the historically male world of war reporting. She died Tuesday, age 105.

They arrived in Nova Scotia with almost nothing but their chocolate recipes.

Do you believe that the illuminati run the world? That there was a second gunman? That everything is not what it appears? Well, even if you don’t, conspiracy theories help shape our world. Here's a look at the psychology behind them.

New York City offers a municipal ID card to residents — regardless of immigration status. That program is once again coming under fire just as city officials consider what the Trump administration means for the program.

The world governing body for soccer has decided to expand the format of its men's World Cup from 32 teams to 48, effective 2026. So, get ready for a big debate over this for the next nine years.

Journalist Sean Williams stumbled upon the Filipino president's keyboard army after tweeting about the violent war on drugs in the Philippines.

The Mexican town of Juarez does not have a doughnut store. But there's a Krispy Kreme outlet just across the US border in El Paso, Texas.

China's the largest producer of greenhouse gases, as well as the largest manufacturer.

Russia has a large set of shadowy intelligence organizations. They have meddled in many countries, including the US, for years.

There's a long history of fighting Nazism with fiction in Scandinavia. But has it really done much to stop far-right movements?