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The birthplace of modern polo is trying to save an indigenous breed of pony that's part of the region's heritage.

Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.

Germans are closely following President-elect Donald Trump's path to the White House, says Matthias Kolb, a reporter with the Munich-based daily Suddeutche Zeitung.

Residents of Oberwil-Lieli are divided over whether their town should continue to shut out refugees and pay a fine instead.

In his Senate confirmation hearing for secretary of state, Exxon's former chief differs with Donald Trump on keeping the country in the international accord.

Obama's celebrity attracted important investment and development projects to Kogelo. With Trump coming in, villagers worry the world is about to leave them behind.

It used to be said that you could have your own opinion, but you couldn't have your own facts. But after decades of deliberate effort by some conservative Republicans to undermine public trust in government, the media and even in science, agreement about facts and even about the rules of the game in American democracy is not what it used to be. How did we get here? Thomas Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and co-author of "It's Even Worse Than it Was: How the American Constitutional System Collided with the New Politics of Extremism" weighs in.

On Wednesday President-elect Donald Trump chided a reporter when asked about releasing his tax returns to the public, saying, "The American public doesn't care." But is that true?

The earthquake that rocked Haiti seven years ago, today, and Hurricane Matthew, in October, are two completely different disasters — one urban, the other, rural; one arriving without warning, the other, visible in the distance — but both amounted to enormous humanitarian crises and offer great lessons for relief efforts.

Senate committees will hear from three Trump Cabinet nominees on Thursday: retired Gen. James Mattis, Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan, and Ben Carson.

The actor, who stars in a new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings, once made life hell for immigrants and African Americans on Boston’s racially divided streets.

Russian intelligence has always tried to gather compromising information, or "kompromat," on prominent figures at home and abroad. It's also known that they try to use this as influence to help Moscow's interests.

Norway is the first country to begin to shut off its FM radios, a move being watched by many other nations.

In the quest for a carbon-free future, scientists and entrepreneurs are developing a new generation of nuclear reactors.

There's been a lot of news out of Washington lately. But there's a lot more happening all over the world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists called the claims published by BuzzFeed and attributed to a former British intelligence operative a "total fake" — and "an obvious attempt to harm our bilateral relations."

Protests have struck Mexico City and Guadalajara in recent days after gas prices soared as much as 20 percent.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday furiously denied explosive claims that Russian intelligence has gathered compromising personal and professional information on him, hours before he faces the media for the first time since his election win.

Barack Obama's article in the top academic journal, Science, argues that the clean-energy revolution is irreversible and highlights the economic benefits of cutting carbon emissions and investing in renewable energy.

These "Blueprint Specials" were musical comedies meant to be performed by soldiers, for soldiers. Most of the songs were written by Frank Loesser, before he found fame with the musical "Guys and Dolls."

Compared to the rest of Germany, the economy in the former East Germany has struggled. In the small village of Golzow, the population had shrunk to the point where authorities were considering closing the village's only elementary school. That's when the town mayor invited Syrian refugee families to move in.

As a rookie reporter in 1939, British journalist Clare Hollingworth got the scoop of the century: World War II. It was the start of a spectacular career for a woman in the historically male world of war reporting. She died Tuesday, age 105.

They arrived in Nova Scotia with almost nothing but their chocolate recipes.

Do you believe that the illuminati run the world? That there was a second gunman? That everything is not what it appears? Well, even if you don’t, conspiracy theories help shape our world. Here's a look at the psychology behind them.

New York City offers a municipal ID card to residents — regardless of immigration status. That program is once again coming under fire just as city officials consider what the Trump administration means for the program.

The world governing body for soccer has decided to expand the format of its men's World Cup from 32 teams to 48, effective 2026. So, get ready for a big debate over this for the next nine years.

Journalist Sean Williams stumbled upon the Filipino president's keyboard army after tweeting about the violent war on drugs in the Philippines.

The Mexican town of Juarez does not have a doughnut store. But there's a Krispy Kreme outlet just across the US border in El Paso, Texas.

China's the largest producer of greenhouse gases, as well as the largest manufacturer.

Russia has a large set of shadowy intelligence organizations. They have meddled in many countries, including the US, for years.

There's a long history of fighting Nazism with fiction in Scandinavia. But has it really done much to stop far-right movements?

The former Iranian president's daughter Faezeh Hashemi and his wife Effat Marashi have clout in their own right.

When a US reporter got into North Vietnam for the first time, it changed the narrative of how the US was prosecuting the war.

For a writer from Bangladesh, life in Pittsburgh is safer. But he feels that “I am in exile not just physically, my mind is also in exile.”

Some people say they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, years before he became South Africa’s president. A neuroscientist steps in to discuss the science behind real — and false — memories.

The job of the crossword puzzle maker is to twist the mind of its "solver."

It's all about matching sound with feeling. Even for science documentaries.

“The city always considered August Wilson its native son. But I think the city considered August its native stepson.”

Much of the millennial generation has no direct experience of wild, untamed nature. But a recent anthology of essays by millennials shows that they are engaging in new ways with our environment and the forces affecting it.

“I was already on a path,” says Cole, “And here was this master, who had actually cleared the road.”

PRI's Vidal Guzman, who worked on the client relations team, died while on vacation in Puerto Rico with his family. He was 61.

A business deal signed this week in Havana clears the way for the first legal export from Cuba to the US in five decades.

Trump's decision means the United States could be left without ambassadors in important countries for months. The posts require Senate confirmation.

On Thursday, four Yemenis from the US prison at Guantanamo Bay made it home to Saudi Arabia. There are now 55 inmates still being held at the detention center in Cuba.

After accepting more than a million migrants, mostly from Muslim countries, Germany now is wrestling with the issue of child marriage.

Hilda Tresz of the Phoenix Zoo specializes in behavioral enrichment. It's not about giving zoo animals toys, she says. It's about giving them some control over their lives.

Nobody can say for certain if Trump got to Ford, but consider this: Ford spent $2.7 billion on advertising in 2015. Translation: The company cares deeply about its image.

For socially focused development programs, getting to scale can be the big challenge. This group is here to help.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week we put together the highlights for you here.

In Venezuela, the military controls the food supply, including everything from distribution to prices. And it's profiting from the fact that people are going hungry.