The World: Latest Stories

Prayuth Chan-ocha — a former army general who seized power through a coup — has just released his fourth pop song. Like the others, it is a pure dose of saccharine nationalism.

In 2011, Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson struck a deal to drill for oil in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region, putting his oil company, and the United States, in the middle of a hot conflict over control of Iraqi resources.

These legislators say they may not be able to stop president-elect Trump from enacting severe policies to deport undocumented immigrants. But they hope providing lawyers can help.

US spy chiefs insisted Thursday they have strong evidence that Russia mounted an unprecedented bid to disrupt the American election, standing firm in the face of Donald Trump's refusal to accept their conclusions.

In Kenya, mental illness still has a strong stigma attached to it. But a new hotline is helping to make inroads with treatment.

Hacker, hackathon, lifehack, lacktavist — hack seems to be the word du jour these days. How did it get that way?

Economic uncertainty abounds in Mexico, with the peso in free-fall and auto makers running scarred. It doesn't help that filling a car with gas is now a lot more expensive.

Donald Trump has again publicly disparaged the assessment of US intelligence that Russia used cyber warfare to attempt to influence the US election. A former intelligence insider says the challenge is unprecedented.

The Kang family lived through centuries of Korean unity. Today, they can’t go home.

Morocco is enlisting Islam in its effort to get off fossil fuels, starting with installing solar panels on state-owned mosques. It's part of a broader global effort to bring more Muslims into the fight against climate change.

A new book tells the story of the treacherous scientific expedition that re-discovered a lost civilization.

Sgt. Elor Azaria's manslaughter conviction comes at a delicate time in the discussion of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine.

Mexico is becoming a destination for Central American migrants who apply for “humanitarian” visas to avoid deportation and secure employment. But the promise of higher-paid work in the US remains a powerful lure.

The gun violence in Chicago this past year had an outsized impact on families and children.

Global anti-corruption activists wonder if Washington's claims to moral authority may ring hollow under a President Donald Trump.

The ancient city remains in the middle of a war zone. But a group has tried to save it — digitally.

Richard Nixon has long been suspected of trying to sabotage peace talks in 1968 aimed at ending the Vietnam War. New evidence suggests candidate Nixon indeed pulled strings to persuade the government of South Vietnam to boycott the talks.

Over the weekend, at least 56 people were killed in a prison riot in northern Brazil, while 184 prisoners escaped from there, as well as other prisons. The victims — many of them beheaded and thrown over the prison walls — mainly included members of Brazil’s feared First Command gang, known by its Portuguese initials PCC.

Hundreds of firefighters from all over the country battled the Rock Mountain Fire in northern Georgia this autumn. And southern hospitality helped them win the battle against the blaze: a local Conservative Jewish camp opened its doors to these crews.

The Islamic State starts the new year under more pressure than it has faced since it erupted onto the scene in 2014. ISIS itself is losing territory, men and money. But it's still able to lash out as we've seen this weekend in Istanbul and Baghdad.

"Europa" is an illustrated guidebook to Europe, written in four languages, and it's meant for refugees and migrants arriving in Europe.

John Hockenberry urges us to approach the new year with the idea that we can begin anew.

Over several years in the 1940s, Michael Dillon underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations. It was just one part of his remarkable story of personal transformation. But all of that was just part of this Englishman’s remarkable story of personal transformation. Michael Dillon was outed by the newspapers after he transitioned from female to male in the 1940s. Dillon's pioneering journey is a fascinating story about gender, identity and spirituality.

The actor Simon McBurney talks about how he brings the Amazon to life in a New York theater.

Tyrus Wong, who had a gift for "evoking incredible feeling in his art" is an influential animator still today.

Studies show that bias can manifest in many ways over the course of a career.

Twenty-five of Uranus’ 27 moons are named for characters in Shakespeare’s plays. Why?

"Whenever something bad would happen, I would notice my mentions going up on Twitter, and the poem would sort of have a mini resurgence.''

Prescribed drugs — as well as illicit ones, are feeding the opioid epidemic, according to two experts.

President Putin of Russia says he's going to simply ignore tough new US sanctions, announced Thursday by President Barack Obama in response to Russia's alleged attempts to influence the US election. However, Russian officials are concerned about the dangers of a US cyberattack.

A new exhibit in Brooklyn takes a critical lens to chop suey and egg drop soup to tell the story of how Chinese immigrants created a great American comfort food.

Obama is kicking the Russians out of the Norwich House in Upper Brookville on Long Island, New York. Nearby, the Russians own a another compound known as Killenworth, a house at the height of the Cold War.

Audric de Campeau has combined his two passions, beekeeping and winemaking, by making mead, an alcoholic beverage made with honey. And he ages his mead in the tunnels under Paris.

Real-life revolutionary women inspired those famous coiled buns.

In a small village in western Borneo, a village leader named Hamisah networked with other women to end illegal logging.

We lost icons in 2016, but also musicians less well-known to American audiences. Here, we pay tribute to them all.

Lines formed around ATM machines in Delhi and other major Indian cities on Friday as the deadline approached for people to deposit old banknotes or risk having their currency declared worthless.

The people of Brockton, Massachusetts, have been debating whether to enact an ordinance to protect undocumented immigrants. Now, the question is even more difficult.

In a recent essay for the Boston Globe, author Joan Wickersham makes that case that listening to Bach is not only good for the soul, but good in times of uncertainty.

Syrians on both sides of their country's political divide search for an end to a grinding conflict.

Syria’s “moderate” rebels have agreed on a national ceasefire with the government of Bashar al-Assad. It follows their crushing military defeat in Aleppo. But the ceasefire process is far from certain; and, anyway, peace in Syria is a long way off, since other conflicts continue.

China and America have inspired and annoyed each other by turns since the birth of the United States. Understanding the many ways the countries have influenced each other over time may be invaluable going forward.

London is home to thousands of foxes, which become a considerable nuisance to city residents when mounds of holiday trash tempt the animals out into the open.

Wampanoag, like many other Native American languages, is fighting for its survival.

In October, Bob Bradley became the first American to coach in the English Premier League. In December he was fired. In between, he was criticized for speaking like an American.

Nigeria's slogan sounds like Donald Trump wrote it in a tweet: "Good people, great nation."

It's been a violent year in Chicago — the worst since the 1990s. So why aren't programs that have worked in other cities working in Chicago?

There are no cashiers. No cash registers. No computers to ring up bills and no credit card machines. Instead, there is just a bowl, into which people drop voluntary cash amounts. Remarkably, the honor system is working, says Curto Café’s owner.

Austria's word of the year is as complicated as its over 50 letters seem.

Former South Carolina Congressman Bob Inglis has big problems with the incoming president, but sees some flickers of hope on climate policy despite all the red flags.