The World: Latest Stories

No one knows where Japan's indigenous Ainu language, or the people who spoke it, came from. The language is not part of any known linguistic tree. Now, a dedicated group of Ainu and linguists from around the world are trying to unlock the language's secrets before it dies out.

When Cambodian Lt. Gen. Hun Manet visited Lowell, Massachusetts, protesters made it clear that he wasn’t welcome. Now some of those protesters say they’ve been getting retaliatory threats.

Youth on the run from gangs in Central America are cautioned to check their social media settings.

The US ambassador to Yemen before the war remains hopeful about Yemen's future. But Yemenis we speak with want the US to respond to Yemen's troubles right now.

We own less property — a product of rising debt loads and the shift to an increasingly digital economy. Sometimes that means people rent something until they own it — and that presents a whole host of new opportunities for abuse.

The newest Taliban leader Hibatullah Akhundzada was a deputy of the former mullah who reportedly died in a recent US drone attack. Nothing in his murky past suggests he's ready to negotiate for peace anytime soon.

It's been six months since the terrorist attacks in Paris. And a statement by a member of the band that was playing at the Bataclan theater has a lot of people talking, including his fellow survivors.

Debo Band is about as eclectic as musical fusion groups get. Well, now even more eclectic.

Here's why President Obama won't revisit the history of the decision to drop the A-bomb when he goes to Hiroshima on Friday.

At the San José de Apartadó Peace Community, neither side in Colombia's long-running civil war is viewed as being in the right. The members of the community protest against both sides.

Students from the public high school in Medford, Massachusetts planned to take part in 'World Hijab Day.’ That sparked some angry reaction. But organizers say it succeeded by getting people talking.

Authors Tim O'Brien and Phil Klay both served in US wars. O'Brien in Vietnam, Klay in Iraq. They reflect on President Barack Obama's trip to Vietnam and the scars war leaves on nations.

How one program is tearing down the sport's elite, mostly white wall and letting young immigrants take a swing — and improve their grades.

Authorities in Greece want to move migrants from the Idomeni camp to better facilities elsewhere in the country. They've sent hundreds of police to support the gradual evacuation of the site.

About 8,500 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere lived in the Idomeni camp in northern Greece. Authorities began clearing it on Tuesday.

By now you've seen the photo: President Obama and Anthony Bourdain at a little Hanoi diner sharing beers and supper. Here's more on what was in their bowls.

They change colors, kill baby ducklings and have sold for $150,000. What's crazy is that decades ago, Asian arowanas were eaten for food.

Electro-cumbia has been around for years. But La Yegros is taking it to a new level.

The new guys in charge of Brazil describe themselves as great for business interests — as for the environment, campaigners say not so much.

The spoils in Austria's presidential election go to former Green Party leader Alexander Van der Bellen, who narrowly beat the far-right candidate, Norbert Hofer. Here's what the results mean.

The world's first humanitarian summit is being held in Istanbul in an attempt to tackle what the United Nations describes as the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II — it says 125 million people around the world are currently in need of some form of humanitarian aid.

The police say they shake people down for bribes because their salaries are too low to provide for their families. That may be true, but residents say they're targeting ethnic Somalis for extortion.

Miki Nguyen, now an entrepreneur in his birth country, reflects on the significance of US President Barack Obama's trip to Vietnam.

Bernie Sanders is so fed up with Rep. Debbie Wassermann Schultz that he is actively pushing for her defeat. He's come out in support of Tim Canova, who is trying to unseat Wassermann Schultz in Florida's 23rd congressional district.

Get out the vote. We’re hearing a lot those efforts this year. In Maryland, some people pushing to bring people to the ballot boxes can’t even vote themselves.

President Obama has scrapped the Cold War-era US arms embargo against Vietnam.

Some Swiss workers fear automation will reduce the number of jobs for people. On June 5, voters in Switzerland will decide whether to give every adult citizen $2,600 per month. For free. The idea of a guaranteed basic income has been tried before, and places around the world are considering it now.

Coral reefs around the world are under threat. Acidifying oceans due to the rise of CO2 associated with global warming; the El Niño weather system, which has led to massive die-off and bleaching of corals in parts of the Pacific Ocean. And closer to home, commerce also threatens coral: a recent port expansion may have caused serious damage to the reef off of Miami, Florida.

A recent study has thrown new light on the many threats that face the iconic Monarch butterfly and its multi-generational migration from Mexico to the US and Canada and back.

Moroccan cities and desert locales have served as stand-ins for many movies actually set in other Middle East countries. But some in Morocco would like their country to play itself more often on the big screen

Renewable energy may have remarkable cost advantages in the long-term, compared with fossil fuels.

The steep decline in the North American Monarch butterfly population has won this beautiful and popular creature its day in court.

When a CBS news correspondent filmed US Marines setting fire to Vietnamese homes with Zippo lighters, America was stunned.

In 1914, a shipload of would-be immigrants from India were roughly handled and turned away. Canada's government of the time wanted to keep the country white. Finally, a prime minister has acknowledged Canada was wrong on the record.

One of Scotland's most prestigious golf courses has been told it can no longer host the Open Championship after it voted to keep its ban on women.

Some of Eddie Palmieri's earliest fans were members of the violent anti-government group, the Weather Underground.

A call from a potential donor to an international NGO working on access to clean water proved a turning point for both the group and a fight in the US.

Luis says that, out of the 15 closest friends he's had over his lifetime, only three remain in the country.

The past is present in any society; it shapes a sense of identity, purpose and possibility. President Obama, in visiting Hiroshima, attempts to bridge divided memories of old enemies who are now close allies, recognizing the power of respect and remembrance.

Who knew so many paid "likes' came from this nation? Without enough good jobs, liking things on Facebook could actually bring in a fair amount of money, and give people working part-time a bit of freedom.

President Barack Obama will touch down in Hanoi on Sunday. He’s just the third US president to visit since the end of the Vietnam War. This woman escaped that war — and found out that it’s never too late to heal.

For a transgender man and woman, everyday life in North Carolina has become more complicated. They live with real fear when they use a public restroom.

A chaplain quits the US Army in a very public way, with a letter to President Obama.

Amina Ali Nkeki, one of the missing Chibok schoolgirls, has been found in a forest carrying her 4-month-old daughter. She is the first to be rescued since their capture two years ago and today she met with Nigeria's president.

A young Moroccan woman rides Greyhound buses across America to meet people, share her culture and break down stereotypes. She often takes the conversations into people's homes and gets a free place to stay for the night. Now she's turning her ways into a business.

A leading politician has been asked to resign after an investigation into sexual harassment, and the incident may be a tipping point for a culture that has not attacked harassment as strongly as others.

"Heroes aren't born. They're imported."

Desperation with a life in limbo led to clashes between migrants and refugees at an unofficial camp in Idomeni, Greece. Journalist Jodi Hilton is in Idomeni. Here are her images.

Magdi Hanna grew up in Egypt, but when he moved here, he found a calling.

Jihadis accuse Suhaib Webb of being too Western. Islamophobes charge him with fomenting religious hatred. The message of the blond, blue-eyed former hip-hop DJ from Oklahoma City: We can coexist.