The World: Latest Stories

New restrictions have reduced the number of cars on the road, but that might not make much of a difference.

Climate change has far reaching impacts — including on French cuisine. Many restaurants in the foodie mecca now have on their menu dishes that have been deemed “good for the climate.”

US authorities announced this week that they have arrested a group of people who allegedly helped foreigners fraudulently keep their students visas and get worker visas. They were tracked down using a fake university set up by federal agents.

A new poll released on Thursday found that 43 percent of Icelanders would vote for the Pirates if elections were held today.

A state law in tiny Vermont is pushing many large food companies to label GMO-containing products nationwide.

In 2010, tragedy struck in Haiti. And amid the chaos, Haitian music collective Lakou Mizik came together.

British Author Laura Bates started the Everyday Sexism Project back in 2012. Now with more than 100,000 stories, the project has turned into a worldwide phenomenon chronicling real experiences with daily, normalized sexism — from street harassment and workplace discrimination, to sexual assault and rape.

The politicians and staff are gone now that the state's primary is over, but some residents are left to deal with animosity stirred this political season.

Amaq actually "embeds" reporters, but aims for a gloss of neutral, "objective" language.

After more than 200 years, Kathryn Sargent becomes the first female tailor to open up a shop on London's famed Savile Row.

Donald Trump has a new way to pay for a border wall: seize remittances destined for Mexico. President Barack Obama's calling the idea 'half-baked' and some Mexicans are alarmed.

Nigeria's romance novels, known as "littattafan soyayya," shift between morality tales and pulp romance.

In Canada, an imam from Iran has joined up with his next-door neighbor, a Reform rabbi, to help raise funds to resettle families fleeing civil war. What brought the unlikely duo together? It began with parking.

The warm welcome many Syrian families receive in the US does not always apply to schools.

Among the victims were 46,000 widows and orphans of mineworkers — who continue to suffer to this day.

Long before news broke on the Panama Papers, Ken Silverstein, a contribuing editor for Vice, was deep in an investigation of the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Tabloid news outlets are calling him the Russian Rambo. Alexander Prokhorenko was a Russian special forces soldier who died in Syria on March 19. It’s being reported that he called in an airstrike on his own position as it was being overrun by ISIS fighters. But how true is the story?

The Soulbury Stone has rested in the middle of a road in the small town of Soulbury, England for 11,000 years. And if residents have their way, it will sit there for eternity.

Iraq's largest dam was built in the 1980s under Saddam. Now US officials warn it's in danger of failing.

If you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.

How over-engaging your pre-frontal cortex can lead to a creative block.

Every election season, politicians, pollsters and media talk about "the Latino vote." But that's not exactly right.

They've been called "the Panama Papers." That's because Mossack Fonseca, the financial firm that helped thousands of clients avoid taxes and launder money is based in Panama. So what makes Panama the perfect spot for firms like these to operate?

Survivors of Boko Haram's 'rape camps' arrive home to accusations and suspicion.

Leaked documents show that close friends of Vladimir Putin own multiple companies in offshore tax havens worth billions of dollars. One such friend is a famous cellist, a guy who once ran with Putin on the streets when they were teenagers.

The resignation came after a huge protest, as Icelanders felt betrayed after his cheerleading of the Icelandic economy.

Two researchers who interviewed Syrian ISIS defectors say many of them joined up for a job and food — not because of ideology.

You may have heard of the slow food movement. But have you heard of the slow fashion movement? It's all about clothes that are built to last and are better for the environment.

After many months of being the primary target destination for more than a million refugees, the European Union is starting to turn people back. It’s part of a controversial deal signed by the EU and the government of Turkey.

Gato Barbieri was one cool cat, and it wasn't just the trademark fedora. He earned his nickname while sneaking in and out of nightclubs around Buenos Aires when he was a kid. He went on to be regarded as a master saxophonist and band leader. The World's Host Marco Werman has an appreciation.

The vast majority of deaths due to cancer are because of metastasis — but what if a new drug was designed specifically to go after metastasized cancer cells.

According to a new book, humanity is rapidly pushing past Earth’s planetary limits. More than 7 billion humans live on Earth, but we consume so many resources it would take more than one-and-a-half Earths to sustainably supply us all. While this may sound dire, we already have the means to ensure our survival.

A recently published study shines a light on how urgent the problem of rising sea levels may be. Before this century ends, as many as 13.1 million Americans may find themselves forced to move because rising oceans make their homes unlivable.

A sculptor uses an installation to illustrate just how much art and science have in common

Elections throughout Latin America have been rigged for almost a decade, according to a hacker who is making alarming allegations about smear tactics and election rigging.

China's state news agency, Xinhua, apparently decreed a ban on April Fools' Day this year calling it "inconsistent with core socialist values." This hasn't hampered Chinese netizens from joking about the ban on joking.

Preliminary evidence suggests the seafaring Vikings may have ventured farther south into North America than previously thought.

In northern Mexico, there's a place called Copper Canyon. It cuts six slits into the Earth and hidden between the cliffs and valleys is where an American concert pianist has decided to settle with his one-ton grand piano.

President Obama is hosting his fourth and final biennial nuclear security summit. Since coming to office he has made it a priority to keep nuclear materials around the world out of the hands of terrorists. But experts say there’s still a ways to go.

A new book looks at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of Americans who took up arms to fight there. Many viewed the conflict as a preluder to World War II.

The lifting of US sanctions on Iran may mean people in the US can finally buy Iranian pistachios. But Israelis yearning for a Persian pistachio are still out of luck.

"As I was watching, the largest of the whales started swimming directly at me, at which point I got very scared because I know that they are the only animal which could, and indeed have swallowed a human being, and it's not nice way to go.“

Even as the weather becomes increasingly unpredictable and extreme events become increasingly frequent, it’s still considered scientifically incorrect to blame global warning for any one event. But a new report says it is now possible to estimate the influence of climate change on some types of extreme events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy precipitation.

Necessity led to Cuba's move into development of vaccines for hepatitis B and lung cancer, as well as innovative treatments for diabetes.

Donald Trump said women should be punished for abortion. In El Salvador, they are.

But he probably won't be — despite the country's top court ruling that Jacob Zuma breached the constitution.

He decided on a path in music by way of poetry — then the beat kicked in. Now he's a rising star and just signed by Def Jam. We caught up with Toronto's Jahkoy after his set at the 2016 SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Under apartheid, millions of black and mixed-race South Africans were forced to leave their homes and move to barren land, away from white South Africans. Now, some families of color living in Cape Town fear the history of forced evictions is about to repeat itself, this time under a democratically elected government.

“If you think about 'Fiddler on the Roof' for example, there’s no scene where Tevye and his family are sitting around eating pastrami sandwiches,” says Merwin. “This was like the caviar of eastern European Jewish life.”

"It's about equal rights," says Hope Solo.