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They were the underdogs at this year's World Baseball Classic. But they've pulled off one upset victory after another.

This very cool band has a retro soul sound.

Nike has become the first major global manufacturer to make a hijab for Muslim athletes.

Thousands of younger demonstrators erupted with joy while a rival older crowd angrily clashed with riot police on Friday — epitomizing the generational splits over the country's sweeping political scandal.

One of Myanmar's most important lakes and cultural sites is under assault from development and climate change. One man is trying to turn things around.

Australia's offshore detention camps have been brought to the attention of the International Criminal Court. Human rights lawyers want the ICC to investigate whether crimes against humanity are being committed there.

The new bill could hurt senior patients, and people covered under the ACA's Medicaid expansion could also lose coverage if states don't have enough money to pick up the tab.

If only passports could talk, they would have stories to tell. By digging into the historical aspects, the dates and the travel stamps, passport collector Tom Topol has made some interesting discoveries.

Sanctuary counties span 30 states and represent 92 percent of America's population. As pressure builds on cities to either give up or double down on sanctuary, we'll map changes.

Jordan is home to some of the most educated women in the Middle East. It also has some of the lowest rates of female participation in the workforce.

The FCC chairman, Ajit Pai, has called net neutrality “a solution in search of a problem.”

Survivors of the Navy SEAL raid in Yemen tell their side of the story.

According to the 2016 Current Population Survey from the US Census Bureau, immigrants and their US-born children make up 27 percent of the overall US population.

Here's a headline that the White House wouldn't like. Donald Trump's ultra luxury hotel and tower in Baku, Azerbaijan was built with the help of corrupt companies possibly linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Adam Davidson's investigation of this story now appears in the New Yorker.

Get a good education, and the world's your oyster, right? Not necessarily, if you're a woman in Jordan. While Jordan has one of the highest female literacy rates in the Middle East, and there are more women in college there than men, gender discrimination still abounds in the workplace. This is not just costing women, it's costing Jordan — half to almost a full percentage point of GDP growth each year, says the Brookings Institution. What's at play here? Jordanian lawyer and human rights activist Asma Khader shares her thoughts with The World's Shirin Jaafari.

Kate Hendricks Thomas says she and other military women typically endure sexual abuse on the job and so she was not surprised to learn that a Facebook page called "Marines United" with 30,000 Marine followers posted nude photos of females Marines.

Should you respond to that suspiciously attractive suitor on OkCupid? Should you invest your money in a “too-good-to-be-true” land deal? Before you trust anyone, listen to Maria Konnikova talk about the history and psychology of cons.

“Domestic violence means when someone is tied to a bed and abused or tortured,” said one police officer. “When husband and wife are fighting, that's a different matter."

Joe Milano is the owner of Union Oyster House. He also happens to be the honorary consul general for Thailand.

President Trump's plans for a wall between Mexico and the United States and a travel ban against citizens from six Muslim-majority countries may not be the best way to fix the country's immigration laws. Immigration law professor David Martin, who helped shape immigration policy under the Clinton and Obama administrations, thinks Trump proposals are not the solution.

Liberian women united behind the candidacy of a 60-something grandmother to lead their war-ravaged nation.

A once fringe idea, some Californians are now seriously contemplating Calexit.

South Sudan's refugee crisis seems to be getting worse. But there's reason for optimism, and it all comes down to Uganda’s unusual and progressive refugee policy.

The American Health Care Act would do away with health insurance mandates and create a system of tax credits to encourage Americans to purchase insurance.

Coal has deep roots in Appalachia and its local communities, but this way of life often comes with persistent water pollution. Now, with the recent overturn of the Stream Protection Rule, coal companies are under less pressure to control and clean up their environmental impact.

Lebanon's public education system can't cope with hundreds of thousands of extra Syrian refugee kids. So nonprofit groups are trying to fill the gaps.

Beth Fukumoto thought her party respected diversity and independent voices. Then, she criticized Donald Trump.

For musician Pavel Lion growing up in Soviet Russia in the '70s, rock music was a revelation. But the first Western music he embraced was disco.

The law does not use language about Muslims or Christianity, which will make it more acceptable to the courts, says Mana Yegani, an immigration lawyer based in Houston.

California has the largest economy in the US. It's also the state with the most immigrants. These two facts are not unrelated, but the way immigrants build that economy is complex.

The call for the meeting came after Pyongyang had earlier launched at least four missiles, with three splashing down in the sea close to key US ally Japan.

Catalonia, the northeastern region of Spain, is often compared to Scotland because it's a place with a distinctive identity, its own language, culture and institutions. And its leaders want to hold an independence referendum. We sat down with ex-President Artur Mas to find out more.

The Trump administration's rhetoric about Islam and terrorism is alarming to many Muslims. The imam at Boston's biggest mosque says the best response is to look outward.

David Pogue, host of NOVA’s new documentary, “The Search for the Super Battery,” discusses the booming field of battery science.

Government corruption fueled by cash from extractive industries exacerbates poverty and misery in many countries, according to the US Conference of Catholic Bishops. President Donald Trump’s first piece of legislation reversed an SEC rule designed to require companies to disclose these cash payments.

Want to find out what ISIS jihadist recruits think of Donald Trump? Ask them.

Lydia, a Great White with a Twitter account and a cult following, has traveled the length of the Earth's circumference.

The World is part of a very cool project at the upcoming South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. We've collaborated on a showcase called Contrabanned: #MusicUnites.

Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, a dual US-Somali citizen, is raising the hopes of Somalis at home and abroad.

More than 28,000 people have streamed out of west Mosul since February 19, when security forces began a push to wrest control from the Islamic State group, according to International Organization for Migration figures.

Polish musician Tomek Lipinski heard his first punk album on a cassette tape in 1978. That tape changed his life.

This past summer, an iconic Haitian band called it quits. Carimi wasn't just another pop group, though. It was Haiti's original boy band.

Converting from Islam to Christianity can be a dangerous thing in the Middle East. In some countries, it's illegal. Yet some Syrian refugees are converting, despite receiving threats.

The battle for Brexit is currently stalled on the rights that will be maintained by EU citizens in the UK after the separation. But what about Brits living on the continent?

The revelation of Jeff Sessions' Russian contacts — which directly contradicted his testimony in Senate confirmation hearings — plunged President Donald Trump's administration into fresh turmoil, dashing its hopes for a feel-good reboot after a chaotic start.

The incidents are causing fear across Jewish communities.

Shakespeare's London theater was only one of many open at the turn of the 17th century. A new project is aiming to rediscover some of those forgotten masterpieces.

President Donald Trump plans to request a $54-billion budget increase in defense spending. That sounds like a lot, but it's not as big an increase as the White House portrays it to be.