The World: Latest Stories

Prior to the signing of the Paris climate agreement, few nations saw India as a leader in climate policy. But in 2015, the world’s third-biggest CO2 emitter began a breathtaking transformation, embracing renewable energy and slashing growth in carbon emissions. Now, the country of 1.3 billion people is a leader in clean energy in the developing world.

He founded the first gay rights organization and a sex research institute and gained international renown for his science. He worked in pre-Nazi Germany.

The US capitalized on post-Soviet misery by recruiting that country's nuclear experts. Andrei Afanasev was one of them.

Tenants have been complaining about the building manager's attention to safety for years. The death toll could still rise as firefighters search the wrecked building.

Opponents of Vladimir Putin have tapped into young Russians' shifting media habits, turning to social media channels to disseminate their message.

Grammy-winning producer Ian Brennan traveled to the remote island of Ukerewe and recorded music written by people living with albinism. These songs have become a way to send messages of empowerment.

Many Russians perceive Donald Trump as an American version of Vladimir Putin. It's partly based on Trump's bombastic rhetoric, but also on how his speeches and tweets are translated into Russian.

Will cow dung really help heal a burn? No! Kids in Uganda learn how to assess health claims with the help of comics.

Thousands of people joined protests in cities across the length of Russia, on Monday. They're angry with Vladimir Putin's government and its corruption.

Sessions testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to begin at 2 p.m. ET.

Game expert Katherine Isbister explains that fidgeting is natural and can help us think.

David Muto of The New Yorker wrote about the lawyer, William Marutani, a proponent of removing the bans on interracial marriage.

"It's much more likely that the party will be looking for money in order to benefit Northern Ireland."

Hundreds were arrested in Russia on Monday, including many young women who couple their anti-corruption protests with added demands for a halt to violence against women.

Champion surfers Meryem El Gardoum and Fatima Zahra Berrada are the first women to represent Morocco at a surf contest abroad. Despite their success, back home in Morocco, some men aren’t sold on surfing and don’t approve of local women and girls taking part. And there's pushback from local women, too.

In the fifth vote to end the island's status as a US territory, the 23 percent who voted chose statehood overwhelmingly.

Thousands of the items will go on display — some in a museum, others online — on Monday, exactly one year after gunman Omar Mateen opened deadly fire inside the gay nightclub. In addition to those killed, 53 people were wounded in the hail of bullets.

The protests are the second mass action since March 26 called by Alexei Navalny, who has announced his intention to run for president next year and has drawn a new generation to the streets through a relentless online campaign.

While their parents fight deportation, these siblings in San Diego have turned to social media to raise money to help shoulder the costs of running the household.

Their movement has to do with changes in temperature and rainfall.

Belgian researchers using solar-powered nanomaterials have decontaminated small amounts of polluted air with a process that simultaneously generates hydrogen, which can then be used for power.

President Trump wants to hand over air traffic control to a private organization. About 60 other countries currently have similar systems in place.

While Washington and the media are preoccupied with the Comey hearings, what else is going on that we’re not hearing about? Or, ought to be paying closer attention to?

Science journalist David Baron tells the story of the 1878 total eclipse of the sun that drew astronomers, scientists and even a young Thomas Edison to witness the rare event in the skies over Montana.

The British prime minister is forced to seek the support of a regional party in order to continue governing, after the general election she called backfired dramatically.

Both London and Washington are often dominated by men, but while the Brits elected more women on Thursday, in DC we got a look at the man's world it can be.

Washington buzzed with new questions Friday after ousted FBI director James Comey accused President Donald Trump of lies and defamation, in gripping testimony that undermined an already troubled White House.

Nitrogen dioxide is known to harm human health, especially lungs and heart. Now, a new study finds that sharp increases in nitrogen dioxide levels may lower life satisfaction as much as events like the death of a spouse.

The country is in the midst of a severe economic crisis, and political unrest is escalating. Protests led by Venezuelans denouncing President Nicolás Maduro have now entered their third month. But that's not what Buzzfeed News Reporter Karla Zabludovsky set out to cover on a recent reporting trip to Caracas, Venezuela’s capital.

A day after twin terror attacks in Tehran, some Iranians are wondering why there hasn't been the kind of global outpouring of support seen after recent attacks in the UK.

Russians think "this is all nonsense coming out of Washington."

The simple but powerful idea of uniting communities by bringing a taco truck to mosques during Ramadan.

His family zigzagged the globe in pursuit, and defense, of science. Now, he's worried about the future of science in the US.

Juanes has a new album called "Mis Planes Son Amarte" and it's his answer to all the bad news out there

Khuram Butt was born in Pakistan and raised in London. He's one of three people suspected in the most recent terrorist attack.

The poll showed Theresa May's Conservatives on course to fall from 330 to 314 seats, short of an overall majority in the 650-seat House of Commons, after a troubled campaign overshadowed by two deadly terror attacks.

But what could it mean for your privacy?

It started as a private Facebook group of a few Mormon women in Utah, upset about the Trump administration’s travel ban on immigrants. In a matter of weeks, Mormon Women for Ethical Government went national.

Iran has not seen a terror attack like the twin assaults that took place on Wednesday in decades. Many in the country were stunned.

If ISIS did carry out Wednesday's attacks in the Iranian capital, it would come as no surprise to William McCants, author of "The ISIS Apocalypse."

Solar power accounts for just under 1.5 percent of electricity in the US, but there are now twice as many jobs in solar as there are in the coal industry. Can this trend help laid-off coal miners?

ISIS claimed to have mounted a pair of attacks in Iran Wednesday, which killed a dozen and left 40 wounded.

Authorities were able to identify the alleged leaker, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor, after paper copies of the documents she allegedly provided to a news media organization were shared with the NSA for verification reasons.

Susan Rice, a former national security advisor under President Barack Obama, says President Donald Trump's actions worry her, but the model of Western democracy hasn't entirely collapsed — yet.

“It’s about women, loving women, no matter where we come from, no matter what we look like, and that it’s our story to tell, when we want to tell it."

Youssef Zaghba, Rachid Redouane and Khuram Shazad Butt are all suspected in the violent attack on London Bridge this past weekend.

Why one man chose not to mark himself as "safe" on Facebook during the attack in London.

From old satellite data, two optical oceanographers have created a new digital map of the Gulf of Mexico, which may allow researchers to better understand the long-term effects of the 1979 Ixtoc oil spill.

Terror attacks around the world, including in London this past weekend, are prompting questions about what can be done to avoid such attacks, and what it will take for the public to feel safer.