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In an interview, the chairman of a major advertising firm said he believed the debate over gender diversity in advertising is "all over." And he dismissed a woman trying to help other women move forward as just trying to feather her own nest.

Newly-elected President Rodrigo Duterte has ordered the police and military to kill suspected drug dealers and users without due process.

Teenage Olympian Lilly King became the face of clean competition in Rio. But drugs have a long and storied link to the Olympics, and truly getting rid of doping will be tough.

They call it stambeli. It’s a style of traditional religious music from Tunisia with roots in the pre-Islamic history of Africa. But it might not be around for too much longer.

Some 50 senior national security officials — all who served in Republican administrations — have denounced the Republican presidential candidate. They say Donald Trump is not qualified to be president and commander-in-chief.

HIV rates are rising among gay men in China. And there are fears that some of these men may infect their wives.

Sometimes it seems like the whole world is wagging its finger at you. The old concept of Russia as the villain in clean sports is back. Some Russians in Rio say it's just bad politics.

Are man-made diamonds more ethically responsible? The diamond industry would tell you to think again.

Three years ago, photographer Misha Friedman traveled to South Africa. He went to Gugulethu, a township near Cape Town, to photograph several women living with HIV and tuberculosis. This year, he went back to try and find the women again. Some have since died. Friedman has now produced a new portrait series — focusing in part on those who were left behind and on the ongoing HIV crisis in South Africa — a country with the highest infection rate in the world.

The events of June 16, 1816 — when Mary Shelley started writing Frankenstein — might offer us a glimpse into our future.

It's not that traditional emojis haven't represented women — they have — just in some of the most gender-traditional ways possible. But now that's changing, with emojis finally representing all the roles women do fill in our society.

Brooks, the author of the new book "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything," reflects on how the lines between war and peace have blurred since 9/11.

At a clinic in Massachusetts that specializes in treating Cambodians, much thought has gone into creating a facility that doesn't evoke memories of torture or other negative experiences. One treatment is "cupping," which has gotten attention after Olympians Michael Phelps' usage.

Space is at a premium in most big cities — but even then space is usually reserved for the dead. In Berlin, though, many old cemeteries are being converted as public spaces.

What pronouns do you use? Have you ever been asked? Do you ask others their pronouns? This week on the podcast, we hand over the reins to our talented summer intern, Paulus van Horne, to share a very personal story about pronouns. In the spring of 2016, Paulus came out as non-binary at college, asking friends and teachers to use the gender neutral pronouns they/them their. This summer at The World, Paulus came out for the first time at a workplace. This is their story.

Viggo Mortensen talks acting, politics and his new film, Captain Fantastic.

Taxpayers fund billions of dollars in research every year — research that can wind up hidden away from the public's eyes. Should that change?

As federal and state governments attempt to reduce methane leaks from oil and gas operations, scientists are still trying to figure out just how much of it actually escapes from pipes, valves, tanks and gas wells.

The unsung female heroes who made the 1969 moon landing possible — we're guessing you've probably never heard about them

Seventy-seven power plants in Ohio and Pennsylvania caused hundreds of premature deaths and cost an estimated $38 billion in health costs and impacts, mostly in already disadvantaged communities.

How much are taxpayers willing to spend to support America’s National Parks? A lot, according to a new study.

The United States isn't the only country that has refused to lower its flag.

The ancient Greeks staged games every four years, for over a thousand years, on the field of Olympia. Times were rough, and so was the competition.

Zika transmission is down during Brazil’s winter, but US health officials say it's still unsafe for pregnant women to visit.

Thousands of Rio residents were evacuated from their homes to make way for Olympic projects. Some resisted. Many feel their communities were torn apart.

Bureaucrazy is an app that helps new arrivals break through Germany's notorious red tape.

The movement for black lives in Minnesota is healing old divisions between African refugees and African Americans.

Citizens United opened a new loophole that, essentially, allows foreign owners of US companies to give unlimited funds to candidates for office.

In the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, there's a government-sponsored festival called the "Guelaguetza" that highlights local cultural traditions. But an alternative "People's Guelaguetza" is seen as more in touch with Oaxaca's indigenous cultures — and as a meeting ground for protesters.

The agency’s effort to improve diversity isn’t about political correctness — it’s about results. But there isn't a straightforward solution.

The International Olympic Committee voted unanimously to add new sports to the official games roster, in an effort organizers hope will get young people pumped again about the event.

In Canada, aboriginal women and girls have been going missing for decades.

In the aftermath of airstrikes, civilians in Aleppo organize to find the injured.

Rio will have drones, an international command center, and even giant surveillance balloons keeping watch over the Games. There’s good reason for officials to stay vigilant.

The government in Rio de Janeiro commissioned an official funk carioca song for the Olympics, because the style is so popular in the city. But funk musicians in Rio say city authorities have been cracking down on them for years, raiding their parties and destroying their equipment.

Turkey's post-coup crackdown continues and one of President Erdogan's targets is his country's political cartoonists. Their response: Even more biting satire.

Researchers have found 15 specific regions in the human genome that could signal a risk of clinical depression.

Tourists come to the Great Bear Rainforest to shoot the grizzly bears that live there. Some are using cameras — others are using rifles.

For the first time, Taiwan’s government has apologized to its indigenous people for centuries of mistreatment.

One line goes, “You almost got it right there, when you called me a feminazi, but you missed a little detail, the one walking down the streets with fear is I.”

Canada's "War in the Woods" ends with a land agreement that could save forests around the world.

When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might have thought people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts have stocked an underground library in Syria with volumes rescued from bombed buildings — and users dodge shells and bullets to reach it.

Activists released thousands of live cockroaches, among other live insects, in protest against immigrant workers being detained and deported.

Active duty service members are expected to remain apolitical, but the rules for vets are much more limited — if there are any at all.

Tomatoes are a prized staple in Nigeria, but there's a severe shortage and prices are soaring. At first, many people has conspiracy theories about what caused the shortage.

US military personnel are supposed to stay out of politics. But why is that? It's not the case elsewhere in the world. A look at the roots of the civil-military relationship.

Republican leaders have been concealing their intelligence for decades — but it was always more of an act. For Donald Trump, the act is reality, argues foreign policy expert Max Boot.

It's one thing to talk to people you've never met before who are suffering from hunger, and it's a completely different thing when they are from your own family, as the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez discovered when he returned to his native Venezuela to report on its failure to get food on people's tables.

Birders have a bunch of tricks to help identify different birds — color, size, how the bird flies, where they see it, and, of course, its song. Now imagine trying to identifying birds in flight high in the sky in the middle of the night where you can't see them. How would you do that?