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The former Iranian president's daughter Faezeh Hashemi and his wife Effat Marashi have clout in their own right.

When a US reporter got into North Vietnam for the first time, it changed the narrative of how the US was prosecuting the war.

For a writer from Bangladesh, life in Pittsburgh is safer. But he feels that “I am in exile not just physically, my mind is also in exile.”

Some people say they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, years before he became South Africa’s president. A neuroscientist steps in to discuss the science behind real — and false — memories.

The job of the crossword puzzle maker is to twist the mind of its "solver."

It's all about matching sound with feeling. Even for science documentaries.

“The city always considered August Wilson its native son. But I think the city considered August its native stepson.”

Much of the millennial generation has no direct experience of wild, untamed nature. But a recent anthology of essays by millennials shows that they are engaging in new ways with our environment and the forces affecting it.

“I was already on a path,” says Cole, “And here was this master, who had actually cleared the road.”

PRI's Vidal Guzman, who worked on the client relations team, died while on vacation in Puerto Rico with his family. He was 61.

A business deal signed this week in Havana clears the way for the first legal export from Cuba to the US in five decades.

Trump's decision means the United States could be left without ambassadors in important countries for months. The posts require Senate confirmation.

On Thursday, four Yemenis from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay made it home to Saudi Arabia. There are now 55 inmates still being held at the detention center in Cuba.

After accepting more than a million migrants, mostly from Muslim countries, Germany now is wrestling with the issue of child marriage.

Hilda Tresz of the Phoenix Zoo specializes in behavioral enrichment. It's not about giving zoo animals toys, she says. It's about giving them some control over their lives.

Nobody can say for certain if Trump got to Ford, but consider this: Ford spent $2.7 billion on advertising in 2015. Translation: The company cares deeply about its image.

For socially focused development programs, getting to scale can be the big challenge. This group is here to help.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.

In Venezuela, the military controls the food supply, including everything from distribution to prices. And it's profiting from the fact that people are going hungry.

Roundabouts are common in England. But you don't see them much in the US. Unless you live in Carmel, Indiana. It's home to 102 roundabouts ... and counting.

Three US senators traveled to the Baltics to try to calm the jangled nerves of leaders worried that the US will abandon NATO.

President-elect Donald Trump’s friendly overtures to Russian President Vladimir Putin has been a troubling development for many in the Baltic states.

Prayuth Chan-ocha — a former army general who seized power through a coup — has just released his fourth pop song. Like the others, it is a pure dose of saccharine nationalism.

In 2011, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson struck a deal to drill for oil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, putting his oil company, and the United States, in the middle of a hot conflict over control of Iraqi resources.

These legislators say they may not be able to stop president-elect Trump from enacting severe policies to deport undocumented immigrants. But they hope providing lawyers can help.

US spy chiefs insisted Thursday they have strong evidence that Russia mounted an unprecedented bid to disrupt the American election, standing firm in the face of Donald Trump's refusal to accept their conclusions.

In Kenya, mental illness still has a strong stigma attached to it. But a new hotline is helping to make inroads with treatment.

Hacker, hackathon, lifehack, lacktavist — hack seems to be the word du jour these days. How did it get that way?

Economic uncertainty abounds in Mexico, with the peso in free-fall and auto makers running scarred. It doesn't help that filling a car with gas is now a lot more expensive.

Donald Trump has again publicly disparaged the assessment of US intelligence that Russia used cyber warfare to attempt to influence the US election. A former intelligence insider says the challenge is unprecedented.

The Kang family lived through centuries of Korean unity. Today, they can’t go home.

Morocco is enlisting Islam in its effort to get off fossil fuels, starting with installing solar panels on state-owned mosques. It's part of a broader global effort to bring more Muslims into the fight against climate change.

A new book tells the story of the treacherous scientific expedition that re-discovered a lost civilization.

Sgt. Elor Azaria's manslaughter conviction comes at a delicate time in the discussion of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

Mexico is becoming a destination for Central American migrants who apply for “humanitarian” visas to avoid deportation and secure employment. But the promise of higher-paid work in the US remains a powerful lure.

The gun violence in Chicago this past year had an outsized impact on families and children.

Global anti-corruption activists wonder if Washington's claims to moral authority may ring hollow under a President Donald Trump.

The ancient city remains in the middle of a war zone. But a group has tried to save it — digitally.

Richard Nixon has long been suspected of trying to sabotage peace talks in 1968 aimed at ending the Vietnam War. New evidence suggests candidate Nixon indeed pulled strings to persuade the government of South Vietnam to boycott the talks.

Over the weekend, at least 56 people were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil, while 184 prisoners escaped from there, as well as other prisons. The victims — many of them beheaded and thrown over the prison walls — mainly included members of Brazil’s feared First Command gang, known by its Portuguese initials PCC.

Hundreds of firefighters from all over the country battled the Rock Mountain Fire in northern Georgia this autumn. And southern hospitality helped them win the battle against the blaze: a local Conservative Jewish camp opened its doors to these crews.

The Islamic State starts the new year under more pressure than it has faced since it erupted onto the scene in 2014. ISIS itself is losing territory, men and money. But it's still able to lash out as we've seen this weekend in Istanbul and Baghdad.

"Europa" is an illustrated guidebook to Europe, written in four languages, and it's meant for refugees and migrants arriving in Europe.

John Hockenberry urges us to approach the new year with the idea that we can begin anew.

Over several years in the 1940s, Michael Dillon underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations. It was just one part of his remarkable story of personal transformation. But all of that was just part of this Englishman’s remarkable story of personal transformation. Michael Dillon was outed by the newspapers after he transitioned from female to male in the 1940s. Dillon's pioneering journey is a fascinating story about gender, identity and spirituality.

The actor Simon McBurney talks about how he brings the Amazon to life in a New York theater.

Tyrus Wong, who had a gift for "evoking incredible feeling in his art" is an influential animator still today.

Studies show that bias can manifest in many ways over the course of a career.

Twenty-five of Uranus’ 27 moons are named for characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Why?

"Whenever something bad would happen, I would notice my mentions going up on Twitter, and the poem would sort of have a mini resurgence.''