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In English, Trump's name connotes a certain grandiosity, but how well does it translate into other languages? This week on the World in Words podcast, translating Trump.

As the White House changes hands this week, the demographics of the people who work there will also likely change drastically.

Noura Mint Seymali is from Mauritania and she wants to make sure women, especially women in Africa, get their yearly breast cancer screenings. Seymali helps raise awareness through a song.

Souleymane Guengueng, at home in the Bronx, once helped imprison a brutal former president of Chad. Now, he hopes to teach others how he did it.

More than a year ago, a husband and wife from Mexico voluntarily returned to their country of origin and left their Americanized sons in the United States. Now that Trump has been elected, will more immigrant parents make the same choice?

In the waning days of his administration, President Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's 35-year sentence. The transgender soldier will now be released in May of 2017. He also pardoned or gave clemency to nearly 300 others, including former Marine Gen. James Cartwright.

Donald Trump really hasn't said much about cycling.

Women and LGBT rights have been advancing in conservative Peru — but not without a response from opponents.

The death of a Nevada woman whose bacterial infection was immune to every available drug in the US is raising new alarms about antibiotic resistance.

In the face of Brexit and the victory of Donald Trump, it fell to Chinese President Xi Jinping to defend globalization at the annual world economic meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

They used dirty tricks, planted fake and misleading stories, set up a fake polling organization and funded the opponents of politicians they disliked. The goal was to change US public opinion and manipulate its political leadership toward helping Britain defeat Nazi Germany.

The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 nearly three years ago remains one of aviation's most enduring mysteries.

About one in three Jordanian women report experiencing domestic violence but many lack access to services. Now, Jordanian women are getting help in centers set up to treat Syrian refugees.

Empathy is an inherently good human quality. So, why is Yale psychologist Paul Bloom against it? We talk with him about why feeling others’ pain makes for bad public policy.

“He was always so gentle and kind and friendly to me,” says professor Susannah Heschel, who met Martin Luther King Jr. a couple times as a little girl.

Asghar Farhadi's films have won many international awards. "A Separation" won an Oscar in 2012 — the first for Iranian cinema. His latest film, "The Salesman" was nominated for a Golden Globe.

Alarm bells are ringing in European capitals after President-elect Donald Trump said NATO was obsolete. In an interview with two leading European newspapers, Trump also criticized the European Union and said he would consider lifting sanctions against Russia. He also made a direct attack on German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the leader of one of America’s most important traditional allies.

To create a new civil rights movement, immigration activists are scrambling to overcome divisions and prepare for the unknown.

Beer in Italy used to mean Peroni. While that's still the case, there is a growing microbrew scene that's producing some incredible brews.

Two Disney animators describe the ocean-sized task of making water “come alive.”

The DearTomorrow project invites people to share messages with their loved ones about how they’re working against climate disruption — to be read decades in the future.

In their new book, a climate scientist and a political cartoonist team up to debunk the arguments against climate change.

In his new book, the astronomer Dean Regas lays out some of his favorite trivia about the cosmos.

Results from Audubon’s 117th annual Christmas Bird Count are rolling in. What’s the bird count, you say?

Witold Waszczykowski mistakenly told reporters at the UN that he'd met with various nations "such as Belize or San Escobar." Thing is, that's not a nation. The internet is having a field day.

In the last days of his presidency, Barack Obama got rid of the policy that granted Cuban migrants asylum if they made it to US soil.

In Jan. 15, 1997, Princess Diana walked through an active minefield in Angola. Here's how land mine ban advocate Paul Heslop, who helped Diana detonate a land mine in front of an audience of international reporters, remembers the day.

The birthplace of modern polo is trying to save an indigenous breed of pony that's part of the region's heritage.

Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.

Germans are closely following President-elect Donald Trump's path to the White House, says Matthias Kolb, a reporter with the Munich-based daily Suddeutche Zeitung.

Residents of Oberwil-Lieli are divided over whether their town should continue to shut out refugees and pay a fine instead.

In his Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state, Exxon's former chief differs with Donald Trump on keeping the country in the international accord.

Obama's celebrity attracted important investment and development projects to Kogelo. With Trump coming in, villagers worry the world is about to leave them behind.

It used to be said that you could have your own opinion, but you couldn't have your own facts. But after decades of deliberate effort by some conservative Republicans to undermine public trust in government, the media and even in science, agreement about facts and even about the rules of the game in American democracy is not what it used to be. How did we get here? Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of "It's Even Worse Than it Was: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" weighs in.

On Wednesday President-elect Donald Trump chided a reporter when asked about releasing his tax returns to the public, saying, "The American public doesn't care." But is that true?

The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.

Senate committees will hear from three Trump Cabinet nominees on Thursday: retired Gen. James Mattis, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan, and Ben Carson.

The actor, who stars in a new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings, once made life hell for immigrants and African Americans on Boston’s racially divided streets.

Russian intelligence has always tried to gather compromising information, or "kompromat," on prominent figures at home and abroad. It's also known that they try to use this as influence to help Moscow's interests.