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She didn't hear opera performed until she was in high school, but she knew immediately it was her calling.

The terror group's image as the bringer of the apocalypse has been shattered. But they're already adapting.

Valerie Hunter Gordon died this month at the age of 94. She invented one of the first disposable diapers, cutting prototypes out of military parachute silk that she stitched on her living room table.

Trace your family tree back far enough, and you'll likely find an immigrant or a refugee. Even seemingly homogenous populations, like Ireland's, have had plenty of them over time, coming in and going out. Germany is now integrating almost a million refugees who have come in over the past year. In the face of such changes, how do people in each country consider, expand or defend their identities?

Sana Mir is well-known as a cricket star — and rightly so. She's put women's cricket in Pakistan on the international stage. But she's also changing perceptions of what it means to be a Pakistani woman, at home and abroad.

It's hard to imagine the life of a refugee. A new exhibit from Doctors Without Borders hopes to make it easier.

The city councilors in Brockton, a city in Massachusetts, have decided to wait until after the presidential election to vote on a measure to make life easier for undocumented immigrants.

Most Canadians live within 100 miles of the US border and they're sick to death of the negative and dispiriting tone of the American presidential campaign. So one ad agency came up with a great big hug of a social media campaign to reassure Americans that they're already great.

The city of Boise, Idaho, is taking in a lot of Syrian refugees: 122 so far this year. Asmaa Albukaie, who arrived in November 2014, was the first.

When Mexican American cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz heard Donald Trump use the phrase "bad hombres" during the presidential debate, he knew it was going to be one of the lines of the night. Then he got to work.

Major League Baseball is filled with players from Latin America and the Caribbean. Now it's searching for prospects in Africa.

It’s not that Indian Americans favor Trump. It’s that Trump reminds many of his Hindu supporters of a political movement in India.

Back in 2009 Iranians went to the polls to vote for a new president. The polling stations closed late at night and only a few hours later, the winner was announced. Many said that wasn't enough time to count the votes.

A crisis is building at the US-Mexico border as thousands of Haitians make their way there from Brazil, migrating as the South American country's economy tanks.

During Wednesday night's presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump referenced his trip to Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood, likening the city to the Caribbean country, saying that people there "hate the Clintons because what's happened in Haiti with the Clinton Foundation." Clinton defended the foundation's work, comparing its accomplishments to those of the Trump Foundation's. It underscored the complicated feelings about Clinton among Haitian-Americans.

In Afghanistan, survival meant escaping the Taliban. In Belgium it means learning Dutch.

The US will resettle close to 85,000 refugees from across the globe here this year. Many have been ending up in Boise, Idaho. So many in fact, that the city now has a special police officer assigned to that community.

We spoke to Liz Castro, author of “Many Grains of Sand: A sourcebook of ideas for changing the world, tried and tested in Catalonia,” about why Catalans want to break away from Spain.

The Trump brand might seem like a hard sell these days — especially in Latin America. But a couple of years ago, Brazilian businessman Paulo Figueiredo Jr. backed an ambitious project: building South America’s first Trump hotel.

Otherwise known as "peace through obliteration."

Negotiators have agreed to a global phase-out of chemicals that run some air conditioners and refrigerators, but are also big contributors to global warming. That has countries and researchers scrambling to come up with clean and affordable alternatives.

It's the first workers strike at Harvard University in 33 years. Dining hall workers walked off the job in early October, looking for better wages and health insurance coverage.

The ISIS attacks on France and Belgium exposed weaknesses in Europe’s approach to borders and information sharing that counterterror officials had warned about for years. The vulnerabilities remain largely unaddressed.

Day after anxious day, a mother who escaped gang violence with her children in El Salvador waits in Boston to know whether she and her family can stay in the US legally or not.

Few doubt that the US-backed alliance will beat the Islamic State out of the Iraqi city of Mosul. But solving that problem is expected to unleash new struggles in Iraq and beyond. Here are some of the biggest challenges ahead.

Hundreds of churches across the world are ringing bells to draw attention to suffering and "nonstop funerals" in the Syrian city of Aleppo.

“We weren’t going to sit down as a news organization and just take a pass," says Mi-Ai Parrish, the head of the conservative paper. "So we didn’t."

Twenty-one Nigerian school girls were reunited with their parents Sunday after two years in captivity. They say Boko Haram is still holding some of their classmates.

Donald Trump has claimed that the US election is rigged against him. An international elections expert explains why that's not the case.

What it means to be lucky in the aftermath of a brutal storm.

The US has the bald eagle. The United Arab Emirates has falcons. The bird is rooted in the country's culture and tradition. And a hospital near Abu Dhabi is helping preserve that tradition.

Drought, warmer temperatures and surging bark beetle populations are leading to unprecedented mortality rates for trees in California.

How will cars of the future connect to each other — and improve driving for us?

Paris is famous for many things: fashion, art, cafes — and revolution. Now the City of Light is attempting a new kind of revolution: it now bans cars built before 1997 from the city’s streets during the busy part of weekdays.

Dr. Jill Stein is the 2016 Green Party nominee for president of the United States.

In order to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius or less by the end of the century, oil and gas companies will eventually have to limit how much fossil fuel they extract. Most oil companies are facing this reality and writing down the value of their future oil assets. ExxonMobil is not, and the SEC wants to know why.

A peek into the theatrics of campaign appearances.

A new state-sponsored movie in Russia commemorates the sacrifice of “Panfilov's 28” in the WWII battle for Moscow. Their story is as iconic for Russians as the flag-raising over Iwo Jima is for Americans. The only problem is, it's not quite true.

“This is happening in a country we look up to as a progressive, and really a developed nation.”

The US fired cruise missiles to defend its ships in the Red Sea — and got drawn deeper into the civil war in Yemen.

'Gaslighting' has been all over the press lately, mainly in reference to Donald Trump. But the term dates all the way back to the 1930s.

For almost two years now, Cubans, like Harold López-Nussa, have witnessed enormous changes taking place in their country. Diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States have been restored. And for the younger generation, the future sure looks bright. López-Nussa has witnessed that change personally. Not only is it easier to travel, but he's been signed to a record label here in the States.

What happens when the last native speaker of a language has died? Is that language "dead" or just "sleeping?" And can it be woken up again?

Thousands of fake bomb detectors were marketed and sold in the Middle East. But even though the manufacturers have been jailed for fraud, security guards are still using the phony detectors.

Thailand begins a year of mourning for its late king.

The only female obstetrician left in eastern Aleppo says she's living in a ghost town.

A woman from Thailand has spent decades finding and commemorating places in the US state where the Thai royal family lived 100 years ago, and where the late Thai King Bhumibol was born.

The music legend, whose poetic lyrics have influenced generations of fans, won the Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday — the first songwriter to win the award in a decision that stunned prize watchers.

Though this event has been discussed in whispers for years, open talk of the king’s passing has been effectively criminalized — thus stifling any real public reckoning in advance of this long-dreaded day.

US Department of Justice lawyers said in federal court Tuesday they will pursue criminal contempt of court charges against Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio for his violation of a federal judge’s order in a racial profiling case.