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There was a fear that rowers would get sick from the waters in Rio. But that hasn't been the case. If anything, the venue for the regatta was picture perfect, and even clean, US rower Andrew Campbell says.

A group of international aid workers and volunteers working in South Sudan were attacked and harassed by South Sudanese army soldiers. Some were then raped and tortured. Jesse Bunch was there.

Veteran reporter Arun Rath long surmised that a big release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay was in the offing. What he didn't know was that 15 prisoners would be shipped to a third country while he was reporting from the base.

In Nicaragua, abortion is illegal, even if a woman's life is at risk. But some abortion rights advocates claim the government is quietly turning a blind eye to certain abortions, including in the case of women infected with the Zika virus.

Dr. Farida is among 29 doctors in the besieged Syrian city who have appealed to President Obama for help. They say they are being deliberately targeted by the Syrian regime.

Especially the kids. They show up early to get the best seats.

Millions of Iraqis in makeshift camps suffer through temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees Farenheit.

Christiania is a community in the center of Copenhagen. Musician Lukas Forchhammer grew up there in the '90s, at a time when there were no cars or streetlights and a toilet and running water were considered luxuries. Still, Lukas says Christiania had a "utopian vibe" and it helped shape the young man he is today. Lukas now fronts his band Lukas Graham; a band with a string of international hits.

Sylvia Earle wants to create "blue parks" in the oceans in order to preserve and restore threatened species — not the least of which are humans.

"The Bangladeshi community believes 100 percent that this must be a hate crime, in some way. And not a robbery and not a random assault."

It's been almost 100 years since a South African won gold in the 400-meter men's track and field final.

Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt won his third straight gold medal.on Sunday in the 100-meter sprint. Not long after he took his victory lap, NBC announcer Bob Costas said, "With apologies to all you reggae fans, I think that Bolt has even outdistanced Marley."

An expert says Rio de Janeiro residents are thinking, "It’s sad, but it happens all the time, and now it’s in the headlines just because it’s a foreign athlete."

When Monica Puig won the women's singles title, the island celebrated. Sure, it's a big deal for a country to win their first gold medal. But it's finally some good news in a place that could use it.

The Amud Aish Memorial Museum aims to tell a spiritual story of the Holocaust.

An American oncologist shares his story of a patient who refused treatment because of his religion. "Donald Trump is right," she said. "America should ban all Muslims from immigrating here."

The Goutte D’Or neighborhood in Paris is home to a group of fashion designers who combine traditional African wax prints and western designs to make something completely new.

Florence Foster Jenkins was known as an awful singer — but she did it with gusto. In that vein, we offer these "awful" songs for you to listen to.

Moth week was in July, but if you missed it, it's not too late to go mothing.

Dolly was a milestone for cloning — but she didn't survive long. Some of her clone sisters, however, have lived on.

Compressor stations that pressurize gas to keep it flowing through pipelines have proliferated across the country as the natural gas industry expands. But some residents who live near these compressor stations in Ohio complain of health problems that they link to the new facilities.

Cities along the Eastern Seaboard may be uniquely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. One of those cities, Boston, is taking steps now to plan for an uncertain future.

Five years ago this month, a street protest was held after a young black man was shot dead by police in an inner city. Not a story from the USA, but from London, England.

The Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee was a shock — but it was just the beginning. Federal officials believe the Russians have hacked into numerous Democratic organizations.

How ethical is New Zealand’s plan to save the Kiwi bird? Also, will dogs die as well from the poisons being planned?

Brexit, the recent vote in Great Britain to leave the European Union, has roiled global financial markets, pushed the British pound to a 30-year low against the dollar and raised questions about how the UK and EU will now deal with the environment.

Donald Trump has repeatedly said that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are the co-founders of ISIS. He later tweeted he was just being sarcastic. But where did ISIS come from and what role, if any, did the US play in its rise?

Simone Biles made a lot of people proud when she won the Olympic gold medal for women's individual all-around gymnastics this week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted the resignation of — some say fired — his right hand man, chief of staff Sergei Ivanov. The Kremlin move caught some Russia observers off-guard, and has many asking: Did Ivanov walk, or was he pushed?

The Senegalese claim it's their invention. But every other West African country says theirs is the best. We might finally get an answer this weekend in New York.

Some kids from Miami's Little Haiti neighborhood may not have considered going to college. But their soccer coach pushed them all the way through high school. Now 14 of his players are on their way to college. With scholarships.

As a team of refugees participates in the Olympics for the first time, refugees around the world are playing sports in the camps they're temporarily calling home. Social welfare organizations like the YMCA also recognized the value of sports in refugee camps dating as far back as World War II.

Menopause is a puzzle for biologists. Why would the female of a species cease to reproduce half way through her life, when natural selection favors characteristics that help an individual's genes survive? A study of killer whales — one of only two mammals apart from humans to undergo menopause — is providing clues.

“So many people are living in fear. The community right now is in panic.”

With local judo champ Rafaela Silva winning Brazil its first gold medal of Summer Games, the Cidade de Deus community is showing the world it's about way more than just the crime and poverty depicted in a famous — and violent — 2002 movie.

Camp Century was part of a top secret US plan to deploy nuclear weapons beneath Greenland's ice sheet. 50 years after it was abandoned, scientists say a warming Arctic may expose the waste left behind.

In 1980, Randy Goodman was a 24-year-old post-graduate with big interest in politics and photography. A grand opportunity knocked on the door when she was asked to go to Iran along with a group of Americans to find out what was behind the US Embassy hostage crisis.

The Maker Movement was made in the USA, but it's now gone global, to dozens of countries, encouraging people to (re)discover the joy and satisfaction that comes from making something with your own hands, to go from just consuming to also producing. But what if you've already been making for decades, as the factory of the world? Chinese makers embrace the fun and creativity in the movement; the government sees it as a tool to increase China's innovation and drive economic growth. They want to add structure and control. But what if unstructured fun is a path to innovation?

With encouragement from the leader of the Philippines, police and vigilantes are killing suspected criminals.

The first offshore wind farm is being built off New England this month. The fledgling US industry is borrowing expertise from Europe, where offshore wind has a 25-year head start.

Persecuted by ISIS, chased out of Iraq, the Yazidis have suffered a lot. And that was before they got to Greece, where other refugees, mostly Muslims, are still persecuting them.

Nima Samimi, a.k.a Muhammad Seven, gets inspiration from both his Iranian background as well as his American one. His latest album is called Bedouin Cowboy — and was produced entirely on his iPhone.

Stars like Brazil’s first gold medal winner Rafaela Silva and Team USA swimmers Michael Phelps and Lilly King are getting the limelight. But there's way bigger drama going down in Brazil.

Watch Olympic gymnastics this season in Rio and you’ll notice something is missing: Romania’s female gymnastics team.

What happens when volunteers from 10 nationalities come together and make lunch for 1,500 people? Or when a band that incorporates US country folk music, Turkish, and classical Arabic music, plays to raise funds and awareness for refugees?

Thieves cut through the roof of a train carrying millions of dollars worth of banknotes in southern India.

Many Olympic fans are kind of baffled by the equestrian event. But dressage has a fascinating history as the sport of mounted warriors, going back to ancient times.