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With the rise of Donald Trump, professor Teresa Puente says random questions about her origins have become more commonplace, and more unsettling.

Nihonium is the first of four new elements to be discovered in an Asian country, and Japan takes the prize.

Mariana Zuñiga had a good gig in Europe. But she wanted to cover conflict. And what better place than the place she calls home?

Netflix has gone international with its bid to create its own shows. Last month, it debuted "Marseille," a TV series set in France's second largest city.

Social media and the sharing economy are changing the way that politics is both debated and funded, Olikara says. Additionally, he argues that discontent is changing the equation.

The largest high school in Kansas, Wichita East, has welcomed 58 new refugee students in the past year and a half. Many grew up in refugee camps and have no formal education — perhaps haven't ever learned to hold a pencil. The whole school system is learning to adapt.

I was five years old when Muhammad Ali came to India. He was the first American I remember meeting.

As Paris readies for the Euro 2016 Tournament, what would have been a time of wild excitement will instead test the country's ability to secure itself against further terrorist attacks.

This week David Franzoni, the screenwriter for "Gladiator," said in an interview that he wants to cast Leonardo DiCaprio as 13th-century Persian poet Rumi in a new biopic. The suggestion sparked the latest social media debate over "whitewashing" in Hollywood.

When Cassius Clay converted to Islam in the mid-1960s and took the name Muhammad Ali, he was not a popular figure in mainstream white America. But he was never afraid to talk about his Muslim faith.

More than 150,000 people arrived by boat on the Italian coast last year — many of them landing on the tiny Mediterranean island of Lampedusa. The Italian filmmaker Gianfranco Rosi has been documenting the lives of the local people on the island, as they watch what is unfolding around them.

Canada has a unique program that allows local residents to sponsor the resettlement of a refugee family. This group in Nelson, British Columbia, is all set — except for one thing.

It's the biggest language in Canada outside of English and French. And Harnarayan Singh is making sure the national sport gets another following.

“I’ve been gored and I played with a crack in my head and three loose ribs, and the ‘donkey’ sings as if nothing happened, and after the show to the hospital!”

Before the current era, marriage was about political alliance, peace treaties or gaining money. It was more about the parents than the couple.

Hillary Clinton has drawn heavily on her foreign policy experience — and pointed to Donald Trump's relative lack — as she starts to focus on the upcoming general election.

Not everyone in Northern Ireland roots for the national team. Plenty will support The Republic of Ireland during the 2016 European Championship.

Now, Swedes are showing pride for Peter Jonsson and Carl-Fredrik Arndt across social media.

Hillary Clinton is set to be the first woman to head a major-party ticket in the United States. In Sweden, gender equality in politics isn't so novel — but there's never been a female head of state there, either.

A massive archive of African songs has been opened up to musicians, the first of its kind. The library was created by legendary ethnomusicologist Hugh Tracey over the course of 50 years from the 1920s to 70s. Access to its 35,000 recordings has now been given to a UK project called Beating Heart, which will raise money for the communities where the music was originally recorded.

NaTakallam connects Syrian refugees with jobs, even in countries where they aren't allowed to work.

This week, The World in Words podcast tries to figure out how an illegible book with no clear meaning became something of a classic.

The Iraqi military is working alongside Shiite militiamen to push ISIS out of the Sunni city of Fallujah. But thousands of Iraqi civilians inside the city are still in danger.

A new Harry Potter play opens in London tonight. The production has broken records by selling 175,000 tickets in 24 hours, but it has also prompted a discussion about racism in the UK.

This executive action is Governor Andrew Cuomo's boycott of the "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions" movement.

A friendship marked by bear hugs, tea and strategic interests: President Obama welcomes Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the White House.

Zarif Khan left his village on the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in the early 1900s. He made it to Sheridan, Wyoming, and made a fortune making tamales.

Barneo Camp is probably the most exclusive Russian resort in the world — even though it’s not in Russia. And it's not exactly a resort.

How one school is teaching unity and acceptance through square dancing.

Climate activists are calling on the government to stop leasing federal lands and waters to fossil fuel companies. A new analysis from the Stockholm Environment Institute quantifies the impact that would have on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

I never thought of my mom as an immigrant. So it took me years to realize she doesn't vote.

Here's why one immigrant at a Donald Trump rally in San Jose, California, wants the undocumented to return to the countries they came from.

The US has sold tens of billions of dollars of weapons to Saudi Arabia. But last month the Obama administration decided to hold one back, in what some believe is a demonstration of unease over the Saudi bombing campaign in Yemen.

The greatest of all time is also beloved in Iran.

Herb Alpert plays a horn that's kinda jazzy, kinda loungey, kinda south of the border mariachi. This is the sound he made with The Tijuana Brass. And Herb Alpert's trumpet is still very much alive. He's in the midst of a two-week residency at Café Carlyle in New York.

Many scholars believe this address, delivered in South Africa at the height of apartheid, was Robert F. Kennedy's greatest ever.

For nearly 5 million students in the US, English is not their first language. So, in Austin, Texas, some are sent to a special school for international students — where dozens of languages are spoken.

Young people will need to understand climate change to make informed decisions in the future. But in many school districts in the US, students receive little or no scientific information about it. Teachers who do try to bring climate science into the classroom can find themselves in trouble.

The journalists were killed Sunday while traveling with an Afghan army unit that came under fire in southern Helmand province, in a sign of just how dangerous the conflict remains for the media trying to cover it.

Armenian American journalist Liana Aghajanian says the German parliament's decision is all the more groundbreaking because it was a politician of Turkish descent who pushed it through.

"Conservatives are not inherently anti-environmental," says eco-psychologist Christopher Wolsko. They just don't like how liberals talk about the issues.

“I think it was just cool to see everyone together, to see something positive in the school.”

Native wildflowers are springing up at the New England Wild Flower Society’s Garden in the Woods near Boston. But climate change, aggressive invasive species and insects are stressing some iconic plants.

"You're different, you're the same. You are my old friend and you are my new friend and none of the rest of it just makes any difference."

The richest families in Florence have kept their grip on wealth — and presumably the prestige and power that accompanies it — for 600 years.

Mexico holds mid-term elections on June 5, and more independent candidates are on the ballots. Pedro Kumamoto pioneered this political shift, defeating candidates from entrenched parties and raising small donations given by people fed up with politics as usual.

As the climate changes and oceans rise, seaside communities are contemplating how to deal with it. In San Francisco, one idea is to bring back wetlands that were paved over decades ago. Next week, voters will be asked to pay for it.

She put herself through school picking watermelons and cleaning hotels. Now, she's a researcher at a university lab in California, studying what happens in the human heart just before sudden cardiac death.

It was once the home to thousands of Olympic athletes — now Vancouver's Olympic Village is home to a couple of the city's urban beavers.

Are Ivy League schools showing bias against Asian Americans?