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French voters were on edge after two men were arrested and accused of plotting an attack to disrupt the upcoming election. Meanwhile, polls indicate a tightening race.

He called her "daughter" or "dearest Kraut." She called him "Papa." A letter from Ernest Hemingway to Marlene Dietrich goes on sale next month in New York, and it speaks to their intense, flirty relationship.

Optician Carmine Menna, his wife Rosario, and six of their friends were sleeping after a night of revelry at sea in a small yacht off the coast Lampedusa in the early hours of Oct. 3, 2013, when they heard what sounded like seagulls fighting.

A razor-thin victory for Turkey's president seems to further destabilize a NATO ally.

Vice President Mike Pence visited South Korea this week and offered a pointed warning to North Korea. But this is far from the first time the rhetoric over North Korea’s nuclear program has grown heated.

If you're still working on your taxes, you're probably not alone: Americans will spend more than 6 billion hours preparing their taxes, which includes digging up W-2s, sifting through receipts, and filling out any number of forms. The amount we spend to get it done by firms or by ourselves with software is high.

Nepal's long-distance trail runner Mira Rai was once a child soldier. Now she's showing Nepali girls that they can be athletes.

As a writer dedicated to promoting Iranian culture, stories I pitched ages ago have now, because of Trump, become more relevant than ever.

It can be difficult for courts to assess whether districts have been gerrymandered. Moon Duchin is spearheading a program that will train math experts to help.

Former presidential hopeful and one-time Texas Gov. Rick Perry now heads the Department of Energy, an agency he once said could be eliminated with no loss to the public.

Traditionally, we’ve split dinosaurs into two groups, based on the shape of their hips. A new study suggests that classification isn’t quite right.

Saturday is a big day in North Korea: The 105th anniversary of the birth of the country's founder, Kim Il Sung. It's thought that North Korea will conduct a nuclear or missile test to mark the occasion. But South Koreans aren't that worried.

Noorjahan Akbar recalls picnicking in the Nangarhar province, where the US dropped its biggest non-nuclear bomb on Thursday. She says it's one of the most beautiful regions in the country.

After the Palm Sunday bombings of Christian churches in Egypt, pilgrims to the Holy Land observe an especially poignant Good Friday.

“I think if we waited some days more,” says the veterinarian who led the mission, “they would not be existing, they would be history.”

A BBC journalist returned to her native Yemen and teamed up with a Yemeni social media star to cover their country's civil war in a new way: with a fun 2-minute video.

"Your Name" has garnered international acclaim. It's already the highest-grossing anime film of all time, currently raking in over $330 million worldwide, and that's before hitting US theaters this week. Not to mention — it has a 97 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.

We feature a unique selection of music on The World. These are the artists we featured this week.

When Lebanese American Nemr About Nassar told his Arab dad he was going to become a comedian, his response was, "You want to become a clown?"

The post-Trump world threatens to roll back some of the hardest-won gains of the last 100 years. But some see an alternative.

Unaccompanied minors in Calais have braved deserts, oceans, smugglers and police. And their journey isn't over.

Polls suggest the April 16 race is close and many are still undecided.

Italy's Zucchero has been singing in a mix of Italian and English for years. But early in his career, Miles Davis told him to stick to Italian.

Adm. Mike Mullen, who served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 2007 to 2011 under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, says Washington must keep the door open with Moscow.

Rival South African opposition parties joined forces on Wednesday when tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital Pretoria calling for President Jacob Zuma to resign.

Dozens of people have been injured and more than 100 arrested since April 6, according to authorities.

The world's smallest porpoise species has been brought to the edge of extinction by illegal fishing in Mexico. And it's not even the porpoise itself that fishermen are after.

The IRS demands tax returns from citizens, green card holders, visa holders and undocumented immigrants.

There have been attacks carried out using trucks or other heavy vehicles in the past. But lately ISIS has been promoting the tactic, in great detail, in its online magazine.

“I know that there is this new policy, that it’s this 'America First,'” said Anote Tong, former president of Kiribati. “But [that] doesn’t mean that you destroy our home by putting America first.”

It's hard to compete globally when everyone else's corporate tax rate is lower.

If they study hard they'll get jobs in the fields they've chosen, but they can make a lot more money in the new tourism economy.

The officer who dragged an unwilling passenger out of his plane seat on Sunday has been placed on leave.

The civil war in Syria has created colossal human suffering. But it can still be surprising how profoundly this war has changed the lives of Syrians. One US expert describes the cost to his family and community.

Ocean floor expeditions near the site of the 1979 Ixtoc oil blowout seek to find out how the ocean is recovering three decades after the disaster. Scientists hope their work will shed light on the future of the waters near the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

President Donald Trump has pledged to pursue an "America first" strategy both at home and internationally, but recent events in the Middle East have quickly put that practice to the test.

After the lethal shooting of Liu Shaoyo, a Chinese man in Paris, an overlooked community in France finds its voice.

60 of the tournament's matches would be staged in the United States, with Canada and Mexico hosting 10 games each. If they're successful, it would be the first time three countries staged a World Cup together.

The fallout from the incident on the United Airlines flight from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, has been a public relations disaster for the airline in the United States.

Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan novels have become global hits. They are rife with love and sex and the mob — and commentary about language. This week on the podcast we explore Italy's linguistic history and the tensions between Italian dialects and the lingua franca.

A botched US raid whipped a Somali crowd into a frenzy. A new film depicts the aftermath.

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson heads to Moscow, where the view of Trump's America is shifting, but not in predictable ways.

As a US strike group led by an aircraft carrier steamed toward the Korean peninsula Sunday, a senior official said President Donald Trump has asked to be provided with a range of options for eliminating the North Korean nuclear threat.

The transmission rate of misinformation may be slowed through a process known as 'attitudinal inoculation' — a process similar to vaccination, according to new research.

This year, Rachel Miller's family in the Boston area is sharing the Jewish holiday of Passover with a Syrian family living with them for the year.

Last summer, a pair of capybaras escaped from Toronto's High Park Zoo. The "High Park Two" are now five. Meet the "capy-babies."

She was introduced in 1997 to much fanfare. Where is she now?

London was once famous for its "fog," which in reality was toxic smog from coal fires. Then the city passed new laws and cleaned up its act. Now, smog is once again a serious problem. This time cars are to blame — and the UK government refuses to do anything about it.

Trust the man. He’s photographed 15,000 dogs.