The World: Latest Stories

Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis make up the majority of the refugee population stuck on Lesbos and other Greek islands. So the Africans there to seek asylum are often overlooked.

Billionaire philanthropist and Holocaust survivor will invest $10 million to help communities track hate crimes against them.

Cary Fowler, founder of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault and the author of a new book documenting its story and its treasures, explains why humanity needs a seed vault at the top of the world to ensure the genetic diversity of our agricultural heritage.

It wasn’t so long ago when US colleges and universities dismissed Islam as a serious subject of study. A broken arm set off the chain of events that sent Philip Khuri Hitti from Lebanon to Princeton, where he created the first program in Near Eastern Studies in the US.

The Western Hemisphere's longest-ruling communist leader loved wearing some of the world's best-known brands.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel sets off re-election bid with ban on Muslim full-face veil, following Germany's intake of more than a million refugees, which has drawn criticism from Merkel's party.

Why do we use mice for medical research? It all started with fancy mice.

The US, China and Taiwan have all signed onto a fiction — that Taiwan and China are one and the same government. Of course, the US doesn't completely go along with that, but for official purposes, it's been a useful lie for decades.

A folklorist at the Erie Art Museum dreamed up the idea: Helping refugees gain work skills while working with them to preserve their songs.

This European city has some of the harshest Airbnb laws on the books. But it doesn't seem to stop the flow of people renting out their apartments.

Italian voters gave a thumbs down to constitutional reform that would have strengthened a pro-EU leader. But voters in Austria reject a far-right candidate.

One of France's elite universities has a program that's inspired by American-style affirmative action. But it's not based on ethnicity or color — and some students say that's for the better.

Experts say there are actually hundreds of types of cold-causing viruses.

In a surprise announcement Sunday night, the US Amy Corps of Engineers announced it would require the controversial oil pipeline to be rerouted.

Brit Bennett’s bestselling debut explores how faith is shaped by culture — something she saw growing up in both black and white churches.

What does this mean for the field of spinal injury research?

Scientists have proposed a new “giant impact” theory about how the moon formed — and it provides a few new clues about our turbulent young Earth

As the nation's first African American president winds up his tenure with majority approval ratings, African Americans in science and tech are increasingly ascending to leadership positions in their own fields. But systemic problems, from childhood education on up, are still making it tough to get representative numbers of African Americans into science, technology, engineering and math.

If nuclear war ever breaks out, these men and women will be on the front lines.

Antonio Del Otero called the president-elect a 'reject Cheeto.'

Few realize that Fidel Castro played a part in the Nobel Prize-winning author's books. Not as a character or inspiration, but as an editor.

If Gabriel Garcia Marquez had a soundtrack to his stories, the music would come from the Colombian band Puerto Candelaria.

President-elect Donald Trump's stance on immigration has some members of this family worried — while others are celebrating.

President Yahya Jammeh has ruled The Gambia with a heavy hand for the past 22 years. But the opposition turned out in force to vote, and now the West African nation is set for a rare handover of power.

For this immigrant family in North Carolina, the immigration crackdown promised by President-elect Donald Trump might mean having to split in half.

Gustavo Díaz's website, DolarToday, has become a handy financial tool for Venezuelans trying to navigate their underground economy, much to the dismay of Venezuelan authorities.

When Pakistan's prime minister made a courtesy call to Donald Trump, he was met with an earful of effusive adjectives. What's behind Trump's "fantastic," "terrific," "amazing" and "exceptional" praise of Pakistan?

After voters shocked the world by rejecting an earlier version of the deal in a referendum last month, the Colombian government and rebels turned to Congress.

A Colombian sculptor tells stories of violence. Her work has focused on Colombia's war, the gun violence in Chicago, and now the migrants who've lost their lives in the Mediterranean.

The US is just now taking in a larger number of Syrian refugees. President-elect Donald Trump has plenty of power to reverse that.

A federal bailout kept police on the streets and hospitals open while Olympics tourists were in town. But now the money has dried up and public employees aren’t being paid.

When the Dakota Access Pipeline was thought to be endangering the water supply of the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, the path was changed without any objection.

The town of Gävle constructs a gigantic straw goat each year for Christmas. It costs the town nearly $250,000 to build. And each year, someone lights it on fire.

Arnold Giammarco was deported to Italy. He says the lack of a bond hearing destroyed his life.

"It would be the height of folly if the next administration were to tear up that agreement," John Brennan told the BBC.

The imam behind the plan hopes building relationships with some of his Christian neighbors will bring calm and understanding.

A former ACLU lawyer who challenged the secrecy of the president's drone program says Congress and the courts should have provided more oversight.

Perhaps 1 million Ukrainians have settled in Russia since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014. President Vladimir Putin promised that Russian-speaking Ukrainians would be welcome. But it was largely an empty gesture.

The capital of Denmark was known as a place where bicycles rule the roads. Now, they really rule.

The $2.2-billion structure has been edged into place over an existing crumbling dome that the Soviets built in haste when disaster struck three decades ago.

Donald Trump often boasted that he’d stop American companies from shipping jobs out of the country. Now he's doing that. But at what cost?

Fidel Castro's death has this Cuban artist declaring it's time for the island to reinvent itself.

Krysten Leach was born in Korea, but she didn't grow up eating that country's food. Now she grows traditional Korean vegetables and herbs at her farm in California — which has become a destination for other Korean adoptees.

Belgium and The Netherlands are historic rivals. But their new border agreement could be a lesson on diplomacy for other nations to follow.

As the crisis in Venezuela deepens, many there are doing what Colombians did during the height of their war. They’re heading to their neighbor across the border for food, work and a better livelihood.

Canadian police in Prince Edward Island want to punish drunk drivers by making them listen to Nickelback — on cassette.

A plane crashed Tuesday in the mountains of Colombia, after declaring electrical failures, killing an estimated 75 people. The plane was carrying the Chapecoense Real, a Brazilian soccer club that had risen from obscurity to reach the Copa Sudamericana finals.

American photographer Daniel Traub was documenting life in an African neighborhood in the Chinese port city Guangzhou. When he met two Chinese men making souvenir photos on a pedestrian bridge there, he found a key to telling the story of Africans in China — through the images they posed for.