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Qualifications: Must love sheep.

"I don't deny the hypothesis of a terrorist attack or something technical. It is too early," says Egypt's aviation minister.

No longer just programming, artificial intelligence allows machines to solve problems on their own.

Last year, a US airstrike killed 42 people at a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. A new report suggests that tensions between Afghan forces and Doctors Without Borders may have helped cause the tragedy.

Deborah Smith only started to learn Korean six years ago. But she proved a quick study. Her translation of Han Kang's book "The Vegetarian" just won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction.

There are about two dozen specialized high schools in the US that create separate spaces for immigrant students. But some critics say these schools are a form of segregation.

There's only so much time to campaign for office. And only so much money to pay for it. So, candidates need to know: What's the most cost-effective way to win votes?

France is in the grip of some pretty serious unrest. Workers and anarchists are protesting a new labor law that makes it easier for employers to hire and fire. It’s been going on for two months and some schoolkids now accept unrest and clouds of tear gas as normal.

CoCo Avenue is well-known to fans in LA's Koreatown. But Jenny Lyric and Jenna Rose are not Korean American; they're African American. And the duo are currently in Korea, wowing the crowds with their own brand of K-pop.

The urban population is swelling, as government aid becomes increasingly hard to find and the price of housing climbs up and up.

Leonard Tshitenge grew up in the Democratic Republic of Congo eating food from the region. But, now living in the US, the dishes he remembers aren't served anywhere. So he and his wife, who is from Nigeria, decided to teach Americans how to eat like they did back home.

Banking in a failed state is a risky business. In Libya, it's hard to figure out who to trust.

The Orlando City FC needs to finance a stadium. So the sports team is using a little known program to lure foreign investment.

Many Hong Kongers see Zhang Dejiang's trip as the latest example of mainland China encroaching on the island's freedom.

A hundred years ago conscientious objectors who refused to take part in World War I scratched messages of protest and pictures into the walls of Richmond Castle, where they were imprisoned. Over the years the walls have been crumbling away, but now they are to be saved as part of a conservation project.

As publishers and dissidents get snatched up after angering Beijing, fear and fury become the new normal.

Inspired by the nonviolent activism of iconic social reformist Mahatma Gandhi, the activists from a group called 5th Pillar are addressing the problem of corrupt officials, one bribe at a time. The key? An innovative tool called the Zero Rupee note. This blatantly false, oversized purple bill, complete with Gandhi's portrait, is handed to any officials who ask for a bribe in order to shame them into changing their behavior.

Venezuela's continuing struggles with economic malaise and the low price of oil are spilling out in the open with serious consequences — babies dying, consumer product shortages and a national leader being threatened with ouster.

Here's why Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy is advocating on behalf of Syrian refugees.

Chicken scratches on the wall mark the number of days one Syrian has spent in a camp that is home to 10,000 of the 54,000 refugees in Greece.

The world is facing an unprecedented displacement of people fleeing conflict, economic hardship and persecution. Many of the displaced are children, and a new report says that half of all child refugees are not able to go to school.

Canada's Sophie Grégoire Trudeau has been in the hot seat recently for saying she needs more help to fulfill her duties.

A hundred years ago, two men made a new map for the Middle East. The impact of that decision still reverberates.

In Portland, Oregon, the Somali community is more mixed than in many other cities in the US. Careful not to leave one part of the culture out, the city now offers a program featuring two Somali languages.

Leeann Chin had to teach herself how to cook. Her mother-in-law was quite critical. She always complained. So, Chin dove in, and in the process, found cooking to be an escape.

“There was nobody on that team who felt like Washington had made the right decision."

In the absence of a human population, the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone has become a de facto nature reserve.

These engineers have figured out how to store digital information on DNA. And that’s big news.

Director Laszlo Nemes needed a Yiddish speaker to translate the dialogue and train the actors who would be reenacting the Auschwitz death camp in the film "Son of Saul." Ironically, that man spends most of his days preserving everything about Yiddish that isn’t about the Holocaust.

These new devices promise to automate menial gardening tasks.

The guys who brought you heavy-metal opera "Dog Days" just made an opera about the night before JFK's assassination

Tilda Swinton started out wanting to be a writer. Here's how she ended up becoming an actress.

The science is inconclusive, but juries recently decided against Johnson & Johnson in two cases where plaintiffs claimed their ovarian cancer was caused by long-term genital use of baby powder.

More than 90 percent of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef has been bleached by warming temperatures. Is there any future for the coral in our oceans?

Luis Jorge Rivera Herrera grew up surfing a wild stretch of Puerto Rican coast called the Northeast Ecological Corridor. Years later, when he learned of plans to build two massive resorts in the area known for its biodiversity and as an important nesting site for endangered leatherback turtles, he rallied opposition to the project.

"It’s like I’ve lost 130 friends.”

The African Union is about to admit its first non-African member.

Hezbollah’s most senior military official is dead. A lawmaker is blaming a usual target: Israel.

"They use a lot of emojis," says reporter Sheera Frenkel.

If you want to flee a potential Trump presidency, you could sign up for Maple Match. It's a dating site targeting Americans who want to meet Canadians.

Thousands of people have been protesting in France this week, as the government tries to pass a law making it easier for struggling businesses to fire their staff.

Want to visit a place with clean air? Really clean air? Maybe the cleanest of any urban area in the world? We check out a place north of the Arctic Circle that gets an A+ in the newly updated WHO Global Urban Ambient Pollution Database.

If you're fighting for human rights in the Arab and Muslim world, where do you go for a confidence boost? A Sudanese political cartoonist chose a road trip across America to visit civil rights landmarks.

Some 70 percent of households in India don’t have access to toilets. And the consequences for women are huge.

Nevada has the worst-performing schools in the United States. One solution: A new law that would provide taxpayer money for kids to attend private schools. Opponents argue that the law discriminates against low-income people, including immigrants.

The Mexican capital worked hard to shed its image as one of the world's most polluted cities. Are those efforts now backsliding?

A new Twitter hashtag is reigniting America's conversation about race in Hollywood.

It's an effort to encourage people to support more local musicians.

The lower house of the Italian parliament has given the green light for civil unions for gay couples. One of those who is especially proud is Vladimir Luxuria, an Italian transgender politician.