The World: Latest Stories

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.

The Family Reunions Project goes beyond seeing photos on Facebook or calling relatives over Skype. But the project's creators were not prepared for how people would react when they put on goggles and "visited" home.

The 142-page bill, which includes cuts to Medicaid, would end the individual mandate set up by the Affordable Car Act, which was a key component that kept the law functioning.

A 3-year-old anti-corruption probe called Operation Car Wash has advanced deep into the backrooms of Brazilian politics and business, implicating politicians from all major parties.

As a plan to overhaul America's health care system makes its way through Congress, we take a look at how one country has managed to maintain high-quality care while controlling costs.

The 23-year-old Cuban composer, director and singer didn't pay attention to Santería until she learned its music.

Christian relief worker David Eubank has taken his family to war-ravaged Mosul to rescue civilians targeted by ISIS. Eubank tells host Marco Werman about his daring missions under fire and his occasional self-doubt.

Despite not speaking Spanish, nor having ever visited her husband’s native country, Andrea Hernández packed up her four kids and decided to move to El Salvador.

The World's Marco Werman wanted to get a taste of what the people who patrol our waters do, and what their job is like these days. So he joined the Coast Guard on patrol at their base, right here in Boston harbor.

The young prince already wielded huge power before he became heir, spearheading a sweeping economic and social reform program for the ultraconservative kingdom.

More Indiana factory jobs that President Trump tried to save are heading for Mexico.

What’s the difference between the 2017 Women’s March, and the 1963 March on Washington? Zeynep Tufekci explores protests in an internet age.

Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old Muslim high school student from northern Virginia, was murdered this week after late-night prayers at a mosque. The crime has rattled American Muslims.

Climate change is slowly making parts of Antarctica turn green. New species of plants and insects are taking hold, threatening to transform the continent's delicate ecosystem.

The World's Beirut correspondent Richard Hall selected images from his reporting on the historic movement of migrants and refugees, across continents and oceans, from the past few years.

The inside story of a cartel’s deadly assault on a Mexican town near the Texas border — and the US drug operation that sparked it.

“We won’t call something anti-Semitism until we really know it’s anti-Semitism."

According to the suit’s creators, it can cut the metabolic cost of a treadmill run by 5.4 percent.

Mexico’s estimated 25.6 million indigenous people are largely absent from their nation’s mainstream political life. María de Jesús Patricio Martínez aims to change that.

The sport that has long resisted the use of technology to review calls on the field is now giving it a try.

According to reports on Monday, the Mexican authorities used advanced spyware technology created by an Israeli company to spy on journalists, lawyers and activists critical of the government.

Russia on Monday warned it would track US-led coalition aircraft in Syria as potential "targets" and halted an incident-prevention hotline with Washington after US forces downed a Syrian jet.

Pakistanis are going wild. Their national cricket team overcame long odds to defeat India Sunday, clinching a surprise win in the final of a global tournament in London called the Champions Trophy.

The London police chief has promised a stepped-up police presence near mosques as the holy month of Ramadan draws to a close.

The Jewish cemetery in Thessaloniki used to be one of the largest in the world. Now, bits and pieces of the headstones are scattered throughout the city, embedded in buildings, churches and sidewalks.

A new study predicts that in the new normal, some fish will win and some fish will lose.

The country was in mourning after the deadliest such disaster in its recent history, with many victims burnt as they were trapped in their cars around the epicenter in Pedrogao Grande.

New research is changing the sensory landscape for amputees with bionic limbs.

Drought is devastating parts of Africa, making the women and girls mainly responsible for supplying the family with water increasingly vulnerable.

A team of investors, government representatives and climate advocates has developed an ambitious game plan to cut global carbon emissions in half by 2040. It may be more necessary than ever, now that the Trump administration has announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

Not enough for comfort, according to two experts in the field.

Experts say the stigma that still surrounds domestic violence is a big problem. They hope to address that with new legislation that guarantees job security for victims of domestic abuse and requires employers to give them paid time off to deal with the consequences.

President Donald Trump announced a clampdown on US business with Cuba and tighter rules on travel to the island, in a move to roll back Barack Obama's historic outreach to Havana.

In a statement late Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security said it was rescinding a 2014 policy to shield from deportation an estimated 3.6 million people.

Protesters calling for action Friday over the fire at London's Grenfell Tower stormed Kensington and Chelsea town halls, the center of local government in the area.

Cole uses text and photography to find connections that might easily be overlooked in 25 locales around the world.

Over the past few months, US law enforcement officials have taken in dozens of Iraqis across the country. Some of them committed crimes when they were young and have served time. The crackdown has left Iraqi communities in fear and panic.

China's former leader Deng Xiaoping once said that it doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice. A new twist on the theme might be, it doesn't matter if China's leaders are committed environmentalists, or acting in pragmatic self-interest, if China's rapid ramping-up of renewable energy and easing away from coal yields a net benefit of reducing climate change-causing emissions, and helping to slow the rate of climate change. A look at what China is doing and why, as President Donald Trump declares an American retreat from global leadership on climate change

Until men start doing more care work around the house, everyday is Father's Day, these male feminists say.

The newly added aluminum cladding used to cover London's Grenfell Tower is being blamed for the fire's rapid spread. Planning documents reveal the material was used in order to make the flats look better from the luxury apartments nearby.

Plans to rehabilitate a pre-war Jewish cemetery in the Czech town of Prostejov have run into fierce local opposition. The foundation behind the plan says it has been torpedoed by deliberate misinformation and anti-Semitism.

The collusion investigation isn't being abandoned, but a new area of focus may have opened up.