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In an effort to cut costs, Saudi Arabia's government payroll will shift to a calendar with 11 extra days.

Activists say US border policies have resulted in the deaths of migrants trying to cross the desert on the southern border. But it has also created jobs in a region where teenagers are recruited as smugglers by cartels.

Here's one of the lucky families from Aleppo who escaped the Syrian civil war while they could and re-settled in Denmark.

Most of the phosphorus used for crop fertilizer currently comes from phosphate rock on land, but those supplies are dwindling. An plan in Mexico for the world’s first underwater phosphate mine dredges up questions about priorities.

Today, late night and online comedy shows are a staple of the presidential campaigns. But just 50 years ago, it was almost unheard of for candidates to interact with comedians.

The Eloy Detention Center is one of the nation’s most controversial for the conditions in which it holds immigrant detainees. But for these families, it’s where they reunite once a week.

"We often have referendums in times of upheaval,” says expert and professor Matt Qvortrup.

You won't find another Western country with a homicide rate on par with what African Americans experience in the US.

Ed Ashurst says the smuggling of drugs and people across the border needs to be seen as a real, national problem. Something, he says, the government isn’t doing.

Daily life in parts of Syrian is violent, with attacks by forces aligned with the Syrian regime, as well as by forces aligned with the West.

The rejected peace deal between FARC rebels and the government took four years to negotiate, and would have officially ended five decades of conflict.

In Sunday's referendum, almost all Hungarian voters rejected EU quotas for resettling refugees across the 28-nation bloc. But little more than 40 percent actually voted — well below the threshold needed for the referendum to be valid. And some who did vote spoiled their ballot in protest.

A novel idea in Georgia aims to improve care for vets by helping them connect with their roots down on the farm.

After a judge denied a halt to construction of the section of the Dakota Access pipeline that borders the Standing Rock Sioux Nation reservation, three federal agencies issued a joint hold on the portion in dispute. This marks a change in attitude by the federal government concerning Native American rights.

Eminent domain is the power granted to government to take private land for public use. But what if companies want to use eminent domain solely for profit and not the public good?

Former prison inmates are planting trees in Baltimore, helping to rejuvenate some of the city’s tough, poor and crime-ridden neighborhoods.

Fitness device and app makers are turning to stories, challenges and even our friends to keep us moving .

Using familiar tools like iPads, telepresence robots can act as our eyes, ears, and bodies in faraway places.

In 1982, IBM was the king of personal computing – and Compaq’s first PC was just a design sketched on the back of a placemat.

Why Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler has a laser to thank for his voice.

Ratification of the Paris Agreement is moving forward in countries around the world. But the possibility of a Donald Trump presidency is casting doubt on whether the US will meet its obligations.

“It’s a celebration. It’s a wake," said space scientist Monica Grady. "We said goodbye to a dear friend."

We often hear women speaking out against female genital mutilation. But in Kenya, one Maasai warrior is trying to persuade men to take up the fight.

In the latest from Otherhood, Rupa Shenoy talks to TCKs about the good and the bad of being a "global nomad."

"I think more people should have two different countries," says this businessman-turned-farmer. He now has a farm in California where he grows Ethiopian peppers. And he's starting a farm in Ethiopia growing things like Tuscan kale and Swiss chard.

Israel has one of the lowest rates of organ donation in the developed world. But advocates hope that religious and political leaders like the late Shimon Peres can help persuade Israeli Jews to sign up.

Certain types of trucks kill the majority of cyclists on the streets of London. So the city is going to ban them from its streets — but the ban doesn't take effect until 2020.

Rufus Gifford, the US ambassador to Denmark, is not your typical diplomat.

“I’m bisexual,” I said into the microphone, “and I’m married to a man. That’s not an erasure....”

Wells Fargo serves a massive portion of the American population — so its fake account scandal reaches across the country. California recently imposed stiff penalties on Wells Fargo.

A history of tough-on-immigration policies have galvanized Latinos in the state for years. And now they're registering to vote in big numbers.

Adele Welty is among the plaintiffs prepared to sue the Saudi Arabian government for alleged ties to the 9/11 hijackers. But she is ambivalent about the suit, and concerned about the unknown consequences of hauling a foreign government into court.

When we think of Cuban exiles we think of Miami, but new Cuban migrants are looking elsewhere for work and housing. In Pittsburgh, one Cuban woman opened her house to more recent arrivals to help them get settled.

A US congressional vote to allow the relatives of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi Arabian government over alleged connections to the attacks could open the US up to retaliatory cases, according one legal expert.

The remains of several US soldiers killed in the Mexican-American War were received Wednesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware with the usual military honors. They were able to come home from Mexico hanks to years of diplomatic negotiations and detective work by scientists and historians.

This Sunday, Colombians will vote on the peace agreement signed by the government and the FARC guerrillas, ending 50 years of war. At the annual music industry festival known as Bogota Music Market, young musicians there were eager to talk about the prospect of peace.

At 5 a.m. on Labor Day, central Brooklyn is filled with hundreds of thousands of revelers who have been partying all night long. It is unlike any other morning in New York City: groups of tar-covered youth roam the streets dressed as devils with chains and whips, while older people shimmy in frilly masquerade costumes of the colonial era.

Of all the golf tournaments, the Ryder Cup is different. It's not an individual sport, it's a team endeavor.

“We’re not here to convert anyone,” says a woman from Texas whose school teaches Syrian refugee kids Arabic, English and lessons about Jesus and the Bible.

He's helping to uncover the origins of the universe with a massive antenna so sensitive it detected faint invisible ripples in space from 1.3 billion years ago.

The internet is loving this video.

Warm words of condolence for the late Shimon Peres hail the former Israeli prime minister as a great statesman and a man of peace. But many Palestinians would dispute that.

Americans trust the members of the US military more than almost any other institution — which gives politicians a lot of power to fight wars.

Shimon Peres, longtime Israeli president, former prime minister and one of the country's founders, died Wednesday in Israel.

How we deal with death in the age of social media prevents vexing problems for people dealing with loss.

The harvest is underway in the vineyards of Burgundy, and winemakers are about to find out the full extent of the damage from last spring's storms.

One Nigerian is surprised by what seems "debate-worthy" in the US presidential election.

Colombians vote this weekend on whether to approve a deal that would end 52 years of guerrilla war. The referendum is diving families, like that of reporter Luis Gallo.

The millions of Spanish-speaking Americans who caught the presidential debate last night on Univision are familiar with the voice of Vicente de la Vega. He's been interpreting Trump for weeks.

The next time you open your car door from the driver's seat, try using your right hand. It's how people in the Netherlands do it. And if one cyclist in Boston has his way, the entire US will soon be using the "Dutch Reach."