The World: Latest Stories

Beyond wigs and toupees, the demand for human hair far outstrips the supply. It's used for all sorts of things you’ve never heard of.

Fidel Castro's death prompted exclamatory tweets from President-elect Donald Trump. What's next for US-Cuban relations going forward?

For more than 100 years, the governments of both the United States and Canada forcibly assimilated generations of Native people by taking their children and sending them off to English-only boarding schools — a process the pushed the majority of indigenous languages to the brink of extinction. More than 35 years ago, a small Mohawk tribe in New York decided to fight back — by creating a school of its own.

Pro-government forces in Syria have made rapid progress in the past few days, attacking the rebel-held portion of the city of Aleppo. Thousands of civilians are fleeing. The defeats are raising questions about whether the rebel cause is doomed.

Melting in the Arctic is an example of climate changes that, if not stopped and reversed, could become drivers of climate change in their own right.

The formerly fringe, far-right party is growing in popularity, but hasn't gained real political power yet.

On Monday, a weeklong farewell to Fidel Castro kicked off with hundreds of thousands gathering in Havana's iconic Revolution Square.

Otherwise, the “social mistrust” many of us are feeling can have dangerous consequences for our minds and bodies.

A section of the big island is roughly analogous to what Mars was like in its youth, 3 billion years ago.

In 1987, nations agreed to phase out stratospheric ozone-harming chemicals called CFCs. But the replacement compounds, HFCs, turned out to be powerful greenhouse gases. Now countries have agreed to phase out HFCs under the same international agreement.

With rhinos on the verge of extinction, conservationists are turning to novel efforts to prevent poaching. Enforcement agents in South Africa are now using a DNA database to help them identify the origins of seized rhino horn.

It works so hard, for so little recognition.

This year’s Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund documents nearly a 60 percent decline in wildlife populations since the 1970s.

Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to make math relatable — using dessert

Campaign promises suggest Trump will try to reverse a number of Obama-era environmental policies, including the Clean Power Plan.

In the height of the Cold War, Soviet and American scientists worked together to limit nuclear proliferation.

The best female skiers in the world are going to be in Killington, Vermont this weekend for the Women's Alpine World Cup.

French voters on the left are so worried about the extreme-right National Front's growing popularity that they're voting in the political right's primaries.

The US alt-right is a mishmash of people dissatisfied with the Republican establishment and focused on the prosperity of white people.

Some residents of the Japanese island worry that President-elect Trump's "pay your fair share" attitude to regional security could be destabilizing.

US companies used to dominate the steel roller coaster market. No longer.

Residents of this neighborhood used to drive a long way for good groceries, but new stores are popping up as a result of a wave of refugee resettlement here.

Her parents survived war and upheaval in Korea. Then they embraced bland Thanksgiving rituals in an effort to give their kids a predictable, safe vision of their future.

You buy the kit, swab your mouth, send it back — and poof! You are Native American. Not quite.

The Portuguese fado singer took a 5-year break from recording to be a full-time mom. Her new album brings her personal and professional worlds together with new depth.

A Japan Meteorological Agency official asked residents to tweet photos of the snowflakes to help with "researching the mechanism of snowfall."

Many Americans are nervous about the incoming Trump administration banning Muslims from entering the US. That includes some Christians in the state of Georgia who've been helping Muslim refugees resettle in the US.

Former political prisoner Francisco Marquez says he witnessed beatings and torture during his four months in Venezuelan prison. He's now in the US trying to draw attention to the human rights crisis back home.

If the No. 1 one rule for surviving autocracy is "believe the autocrat," what's to be done when the autocrat contradicts himself on a daily basis?

In the former Soviet state of Georgia is a sprawling open-air hardware store called the Eliava. Vendors there sell building materials, tools and machinery — much of it from Soviet days and Russian-made.

The Indian government took 500 and 1,000 rupee notes out of circulation to crack down on tax evasion and corruption. But the people feeling it most are at the bottom of the economic ladder — women without bank accounts.

Soul singer Sharon Jones died this month at age 60 after a battle with cancer. Jones got major love from a lot of places overseas, including the UK and Australia. But her US fame didn't take off until she was 50.

Mosquito population densities in the tiny island nation of Singapore are a fraction of those in neighboring countries. That's no accident.

Donald Trump's business empire stretches from the shores of Bali, Indonesia to Azerbaijan, Istanbul, Panama, Canada and myriad points in between.

There's no vacancy in the British Embassy in Washington, DC — but if there were, Donald Trump would like to see Nigel Farage appointed ambassador.

There are no longer any functioning hospitals in rebel-held eastern Aleppo.

In America, you can say pretty much anything without getting in trouble with the law. Even if you shout hateful things about minorities. So how did we get here?

Black clouds replace the black flag as the Islamic State leaves behind a toxic parting gift to a liberated town south of Mosul, Iraq.

El Perro Del Mar is a musician from Gothenburg, Sweden. Her real name is Sarah Assbring. The inspiration behind her latest album started with a visit to a museum that had instruments from around the globe. She included many of these on her new album, Kokoro.

Before you head out for Thanksgiving dinners, consider these tips for keeping all of your holiday plans running smoothly.

Magunga Williams never forgot the way that a house full of books, in a city with too few, enriched his young life in Kenya.

After their school was tagged with anti-immigrant graffiti, teachers at an elementary school in California asked students to put pen to paper.

How did Swahili go from a small Bantu dialect spoken in Zanzibar to a major language all over the African continent?

We’ve all heard the promises. But will Trump follow through?

Before Donald Trump was president-elect, Daily Show host Trevor Noah compared him to various African dictators. But the comparison doesn't hold up all that well — well, until you get to the nepotism part.

Social media is chipping away at democracy, and everyone saw it coming

He's a stateless migrant who is now the proud owner of the first ID card he's ever been issued. But it doesn't guarantee him anything more than the chance to have his asylum case heard.

An effort to amend Kyrgyzstan's constitution uncovered something shocking: No one knew where the constitution was located.

"We are getting blessings from places we didn’t even anticipate,” says one imam in Los Angeles.