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China's rise has been fast, impressive, and a little intimidating to some. Howard French, author of "Everything Under the Heavens: How the Past Helps Shape China's Push for Global Power" argues that while this rate of growth won't go on forever, the next 10 to 20 years is a potentially dangerous time, as China's leaders consolidate their gains before growth slows, the population ages, and already thorny problems at home demand more attention. Building islands in the South China Sea, a new infrastructure investment bank, and an ambitious new Silk Road network of regional infrastructure may just be the start of a shift of the global center of gravity, back to what many Chinese see as its rightful, historic place.

We interviewed one of the Philippine president’s staunchest supporters: Duterte Youth leader Ronald Cardema.

Generations of residents of Black Mesa, Arizona, have blamed a nearby coal mine for changes to their land. Now it’s likely to close.

By glamming up the labels on dining-hall veggies, Stanford psychologists got diners to eat their beets, mushrooms and carrots.

Hint: Our society is too complex to be managed by a hierarchy.

For scientists, data from the Juno probe is yielding surprises — and more questions.

Recent moves by the online giant have led to speculation that it’s considering the pharmacy business. What could an Amazon pharmacy mean for the drug industry?

Mahsa Abbasi and Paul Gottinger are engaged. Abbasi is Iranian and Gottinger is American. When they first applied for a fiance visa for Abbasi to come to the US, they had no idea how difficult it would be. Then came the Trump administration's immigration and travel ban.

Marissa Brandt will be playing for South Korea's Olympic ice hockey team. And her sister, Hannah Brandt, will play for Team USA.

A new report by analytics group IHS Markit finds that in the years since declaring its "caliphate," ISIS has lost control of 60 percent of its territories, and seen an 80 percent drop in its revenue.

Trudeau: "We recognize that that over the past decades, generations, and indeed centuries, Canada has failed indigenous peoples.”

“He was blackmailing me,” she says, “and I was afraid he would take my daughter away.”

The Navajo Generating Station is a big polluter. But it’s also a good job on the reservation, which keeps workers close to home.

Simone Veil, who died Friday aged 89, survived Auschwitz and went on to become one of France's most respected politicians, steering through landmark laws to liberalize contraception and abortion.

Iraqis who served as translators for the US military paid a steep price for working with Americans. Now, many can't get their families to the US.

New evidence from what's thought to be the world's first temple, shows that our ancestors, or some of them, spent a lot of time with the human skull. The skull was clearly central to their belief system. Anthropologists now talk about "skull cults," which could be the oldest known ritualized or religious belief system.

Amanda Saab was the first Muslim woman in hijab to appear on a reality TV cooking show in the US. Now, she is inviting total strangers to her home and cooking them meals. She says it's one way that might help bring together people from different sides of the political spectrum.

The attack in Germany in 2016 changed the conversation about surveillance in Germany.

President Trump's crackdown on travel to the US from six majority-Muslim countries had been held up in court since the early days of the new administration. This week, the Supreme Court allowed parts of it to move ahead, but said people with "bona fide relationships" in the US could still enter the country. The revised restrictions go into effect Thursday.

It’s a melaninlike substance that scientists can tune to different degrees of UV protection.

Cleveland ranks among the nation's top cities with the most preventable deaths related to air quality issues. Things are getting worse with climate change. Doctors and environmentalists see climate change as a public health crisis and an opportunity.

Navajo President Russell Begaye says Trump "has not lifted a finger" to help save a major coal-fired power plant on the Navajo reservation.

There are no known cyberattacks or hacks that originated as a result of information gained through the review process but it's still cause for concern.

Is Italy just lucky? Have the country’s counter-terrorism policies — born out of years of anti-mafia policing and intelligence work and a decade of bloody political violence in the 1970s — given Italian officials an edge in the age of Isis? Or are there other factors at play?

Four grenades were hurled at the high court from a helicopter and bullets were fired at the Interior Ministry on Tuesday, leader Nicolas Maduro said, in a potentially dramatic escalation of the violence gripping the oil-rich South American country.

South Korea's dovish new President Moon Jae-In — who backs engagement with the nuclear-armed North — heads to Washington this week for talks with his hawkish US counterpart Donald Trump, as Pyongyang defies international sanctions to accelerate its missile program.

Scientists want to build the most advanced telescope in the world — once they can decide on a place to put it.

The US has warned Syria that it will pay a heavy price if it uses chemical weapons again. The White House also said Syria's allies, Iran and Russia, would be held responsible. The ratcheting of tension comes as regional powers compete for advantage in a post-ISIS world. The tension carries the risk of war.

A new study indicates that bats host a significantly higher proportion of zoonoses, diseases that originate in animals and can be transmitted to humans.

The World Health Organization has announced the success of a new Ebola vaccine — but also warned it isn't a silver bullet.

Donald Trump broke a 20-year-long tradition by not hosting a White House dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. Humorist Wajahat Ali says it sends an awful message to Muslim Americans like him, but you have to keep your sense of humor about it.

When does a 'dialect' become a 'language'? And what does it matter? This week on the podcast we look at two places that defy traditional definitions: Scandinavia and the Balkans.

Renee Rabinowitz was asked to change seats on a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv. She agreed but felt she'd been wronged. Later, she sued the airline and won in a landmark case.

Representatives of Qatar-funded Al Jazeera say a demand to shut down the news network is an attack on media freedom.

Stephanie Nolen, Latin America correspondent for Globe & Mail covered the AIDS pandemic in Africa, and was recently in Venezuela. She writes, "There is nowhere in the world today where people are dying of AIDS at the pace and in the sheer numbers that they are in Venezuela: Even the poorest African countries today have HIV treatment programs."

US President Donald Trump hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday for a first face-to-face meeting, seeking to forge a chemistry that can add new fizz to a flourishing relationship between the world's two largest democracies.

Immigration advocates say that ICE agents are increasingly turning up at court dates that have nothing to do with immigration issues. And ICE agents are taking undocumented people into custody.

Hundreds of veterans — who served in the US military as noncitizens — were later deported for committing civilian crimes.

Members of ISIS are putting up fierce resistance as an Iraqi offensive for Mosul's Old City, where a few hundred militants are believed to be holed up, entered its second week.

Noncitizens are eligible to serve in the US military. But even as veterans, they can still be deported if they commit crimes after they leave the service.

Who’s the most-clichéd author? Which common pronoun is nearly absent in “The Hobbit?” And what’s a cinnamon word?

Narcotics smuggling through Central America has led to the loss of as much as 1 million acres of forest over the past decade. Illegal cash from cocaine trafficking is sometimes laundered by clearing forests for cattle ranching and other legitimate ventures.

During her years as a film star, little was known of Lamarr’s offscreen technological inventions. Now, Hollywood is finally taking notice.

The Białowieża Forest in Poland and Belarus contains some of the last remaining old-growth forests in Europe. Protections are strong in Belarus, but some areas in Poland are managed as commercial forest and the Polish government has now authorized a threefold increase in logging.

Nabra Hassanen's killer was found to be an undocumented immigrant from El Salvador, spurring the claim that undocumented immigrants are dangerous.

Multiple sources revealed to the Associated Press that a US ally, the United Arab Emirates, is torturing prisoners in a network of prisons across southern and eastern Yemen, and that Americans are interrogating detainees at some of these same prisons.

The latest edition of Politico Magazine asks the question: "Who Killed Otto Warmbier?" The answer is more complicated than you might think.

The World spoke with Wired reporter Andy Greenberg, who found that Russia has been using Ukraine as a testing ground for its cyberwarfare techniques since 2014.

Amid confidence that Democrat Hillary Clinton still had the election in the bag, the administration delivered warnings to Moscow but left countermeasures until after the vote.