The World: Latest Stories

Our country is at a crossroads, and the right path forward must not include Donald Trump as president.

President Trump fired his FBI Director. Cartoonists: pick up your pencils.

Veterans tell us what they think of a plan that might increase the US presence in Afghanistan.

Café Tacvba puts out its first album in five years, and rock is just one of the ingredients.

During a hearing on Capitol Hill on Monday, it was revealed that both former President Barack Obama and former acting Attorney General Sally Yates warned the Trump administration about Gen. Michael Flynn.

The Trump administration's budget eliminates programs that help reduce the risks of lead paint exposure in children, alarming doctors and other public health advocates.

These women vets are sharing their stories for a cartoon book about their time in the service.

This week, The World in Words podcast visits the Moldova Authentic Restaurant in Newton, Massachusetts. Patrick Cox and Nina Porzucki talk with restaurant owners Artur and Sandra Andronic about their mother tongue. Also, what happens if you put a group of monolingual speakers of different languages on a deserted island? Linguist Derek Bickerton was determined to find out.

From June 2015 to June 2016, police arrested more young people in Orange County than Miami-Dade County, where the population is nearly double. Nearly 64 percent of those incarcerated are black boys.

Left-leaning Moon Jae-in won South Korea's presidential election by a landslide.

At 39, the former investment banker will become France's youngest-ever president when he is inaugurated next weekend after crushing far-right leader Marine Le Pen on Sunday.

Another election, another hack. So was this a “fail” for Russia’s propaganda agencies?

Since 2004, Boston University professor Richard Primack and his students have been documenting the same things as Henry David Thoreau did in his book, "Walden."

They had their mother's blessing, but she misses them terribly.

It's been 10 years since Orchestra Baobab's last album. However, one of their key members didn't take part on their new release because he wanted to continue to practice law.

Science gave us penicillin, space travel and computers. But, it also gave us TNT, guns and heroin. Paul Offit tells us about when science goes wrong.

Guatemalan, Nicaraguan, Salvadoran and Honduran migrants are participating in the Caravan of Refugees to advocate for the right to request asylum.

A new law allows internet service providers to mine and sell your internet browsing history. Two privacy experts outline practical steps you can take to help mask your online communications.

They want to get away from the tourists and their iPhone cameras.

Dreams of trade spurred construction of the St Lawrence Seaway, opening the Great Lakes to intercontinental shipping. The Seaway also transformed the lakes' ecosystems, thanks to unintended biological hitch-hikers such as Quagga and Zebra mussels.

For thousands of years, the Heiltsuk people of Canada have passed down a record of surviving the ice age in an area that didn’t freeze over. Now, archaeologists working in the region have uncovered the physical evidence.

The moon has a large liquid ocean and lots of hydrogen — the fuel for microbial life.

Entire villages in Kenya have been receiving a basic income through a charity program, there's a small test initiative in the Netherlands, India is considering it, and Canada is rolling out a basic income pilot program in several cities in Ontario this summer. But it’s Finland that may be the farthest along.

Australia has universal health care, while the US currently has a patchwork system of government-provided, employer-provided and individually purchased plans.

Much of the content was lost in translation — quite literally.

The world's fastest-growing aviation market wants to stop buying foreign-made planes. Or at least not as many.

It's the occupation, stupid. Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh says the Arab-Israeli struggle is not about a particular conflict. It's about the daily humiliations of occupation.

French pollsters have spent the past 15 years working out a strategy to get a more accurate picture of National Front supporters.

The new branch appeared even though winter has come to Antarctica.

Does it really matter who wins the French election? It might matter more who is running Facebook.

Threats to cut US spending on development abroad would impact women and girls. Across Women's Lives has analyzed the numbers.

A Tibetan student won't be allowed to carry her country's flag in a graduation ceremony's parade of flags. UMass Amherst says it's policy. Kalsang Nangpa says it's discrimination.

A search for meaning is underway in China, after generations grew up with the Communist Party destroying temples and churches, persecuting the religious, and telling the young that religion was the opiate of the masses, and counter-revolutionary to boot. Now, with many Chinese feeling that a moral and ethical center is missing from their increasingly materially comfortable lives, a growing number are seeking meaning in religion and spiritual practice. Host Mary Kay Magistad explores why, in conversation with fellow former China correspondents Ian Johnson, author of "The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao," and Jennifer Lin, author of "Shanghai Faithful: Betrayal and Forgiveness in a Chinese Christian Family."

Muna Assaf used to work in public health. But when she went into Besan 101.9 to pitch a radio show, the owner made her station manager.

For Lebanese photographer Fadi BouKaram, visiting all 47 towns and cities in the US named Lebanon is proving to be a challenging, but rewarding task.

BuzzFeed writer Scaachi Koul discusses how white privilege affects her family and how racism is institutionalized in Canada.

President Barack Obama is a superstar in France. French voters even wish he were the one running.

On the floor of this big-box home improvement store in east San Jose, shoppers can interact with a white plastic pillar that is touchscreen-enabled and speaks directly to users.

Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar returned to Kabul Thursday after ending 15 years of rebellion against the Afghan government. He happens to bear an uncanny resemblance to Star Wars character Count Dooku, the Sith Lord.

Immigration detention is big business. Trump will make it even bigger.

Trump’s anti-refugee push has hidden victims.

For the last few years, the Czech Republic has been viewed as the last bastion of liberal democracy in Central Europe. That could soon change.

On Monday, the US Department of Agriculture announced that it now plans to roll back school lunch standards dealing with sweetened milk, sodium and whole grains, among other things.

You're kidnapped and put in a room with no windows, no books, no TV, nothing, and you're handcuffed to a radiator. You have no idea if or when you're going to be released. Cartoonist Guy Delisle captures the desperation of this true story.

Richard Spencer, the American white nationalist known for getting punched in the face on camera and extolling Donald Trump with a Hitlerian salute, has formed a new publishing venture with Swedish far-right extremists.

The opposition accuses elected President Maduro of maneuvering to strengthen his grip on power.

California sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild ventured out of her liberal bubble to try to grasp why some conservatives reject government regulations in Louisiana, even as industry pollution persists, largely unchecked, for years.

The US military says its THAAD missile defense system is now operational in South Korea. The hope is that it can shoot down North Korean missiles. But how effective is it?

The singer of Afghanistan’s first rock band, now living in Oakland, California, talks about how music can bring communities together.

On Saturday, a police officer in the Dallas suburb of Balch Springs shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards, a high school freshman, through the passenger side window of a car. The officers were responding to calls of underage drinking at a house party.