The World: Latest Stories

Who doesn’t love a deal — especially when that deal involves a coupon for potentially lifesaving drugs?

A new book explores how a group of female astronomers made important discoveries and shattered the “glass universe” decades before women got the right to vote.

Critics of the law say that looser regulations could lead to unsafe drugs hitting the market.

The author John Wray discusses Albert Einstein’s life as a pop culture icon — and an outsider.

The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has a new book that suggests ways for the world to make sense of technology, globalization and climate change, as these three forces accelerate exponentially.

Twenty-five years after the Cold War ended, Russians and Americans are nostalgic for the spirit of collaboration.

In our search for holiday traditions outside the United States, we came across a Venezuelan staple. It's called hallaca, and it's similar to a Mexican tamale.

The prime suspect connected with Monday's deadly truck attack in Berlin was shot and killed by Italian police. But Anis Amri, 24, had been rejected for asylum in Germany and was supposed to be deported.

Hidayat Palaloi's family fish ponds were swept into the sea after the shoreline eroded away. Now, he's planting mangroves all over his home island to prevent that from happening to others.

One tree expert says it has a lot to do with genetics — but you can still do a few things yourself to stave off the dreaded “needle drop”

Sponsors are ordinary Canadian citizens committed to do everything they can to help resettle the refugees — from providing financial support to offering practical support, like helping with groceries, doctor’s appointments and English lessons.

Russia drew on a long legacy of disinformation when it turned its sights on a Washington Post columnist.

Germany is facing an unprecedented wave of cyberthreats. The government is considering new rules that would impose hefty fines on social media sites that fail to rein in fake news. But is that the best way forward?

In the West Bank city of Bethlehem, there are Christian icons all over town. But many are made in China, Now, a British art expert is hoping Palestinians will embrace an ancient style of religious iconography.

More than 100 bags of plastic rice were to be sold ahead of Christmas and New Year festivities, with the price for the popular Nigerian staple hitting the roof because of galloping inflation.

An Indonesian businessman is trying to save his country’s carbon-rich peat forests by making money off of them.

The Kremlin-funded online Russia Direct outlet says it's "just trying to do well-balanced journalism."

You can't call it "champagne" because it's not made in Champagne, but in France, it's a strong rival of its fancier cousin.

In December 2015, the Canadian government started welcoming more than 35,000 Syrian refugees. Here's how some of them are faring 12 months on.

A physician in rural Indonesia is giving discounted healthcare to people who stop illegal logging in their villages.

It's crooked. It's chopped off at the top. It's too skinny. It's Montreal's Christmas tree.

Hundreds of thousands of people have entered Germany in the last year or two, applied for asylum, and been rejected. That means more than 500,000 are facing possible deportation. But German authorities are proceeding with caution.

Monday's truck attack in Germany has spurred a larger dialogue about increasing security and what it means for open society.

Russia, Iran and Turkey agreed on Tuesday to guarantee Syria peace talks and backed expanding a ceasefire in the war-torn country, laying down their claim as the main powerbrokers in the conflict.

A significant part of the battle for Aleppo, in Syria, has been for control of the narrative. Rebel underdogs have spun an emotional tale of helpless suffering and death among innocent people. The Russian-backed government has denounced the rebels as ruthless jihadi terrorists. So where does the truth lie?

The caps at the end of our DNA, known as telomeres, shorten with each cell replication. For this reason, telomeres have been used as a marker of aging. But researchers, writing in the journal Scientific Reports, have discovered one animal whose telomere length increases with age — the edible dormouse.

Though Turkey and Russia back different sides in Syria's civil war, the recent assassination in Ankara of Russian Ambassador Andrei Karlov does not seem to be dividing them further.

It used to be that women who wore headscarves in Turkey faced harassment and discrimination. Lately, it's the secular women bearing the brunt of it.

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, protests turned deadly against longtime President Joseph Kabila, who is refusing to leave office.

Jellyfish are blooming like crazy — clogging power plant ducts and beaches, and overwhelming some marine ecosystems. And it’s largely because of human impacts like overfishing, plastics pollution and warming oceans.

Most of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from destroying forests.

Last century, hundreds of thousands of garment jobs went overseas to lower-wage countries like Vietnam, Bangladesh and China where labor is far cheaper. But, thanks to technology, a new garment maker is bringing jobs back to an old textile town in Massachusetts.

They call themselves patriots. And they say they're part of a right-wing movement in Europe that's proud of their culture and traditions. However, leftists say, “They’re racists, but they say they’re not racists.”

We looked into a local service that overnights freshly baked bread from Paris, expecting to find a ritzy gourmet scene. Instead, the bread reminded us how ephemeral life can be.

A Pakistani asylum seeker was arrested a short time afterward — but on Tuesday police cast doubt on whether he was the truck's driver, and said the "dangerous criminal" behind the attack may still be at large.

The fog of war doesn’t simply happen; combatants contribute to it strategically.

Laura Passoni went to Syria to join the ISIS terror group, taking along her 4-year-old son. She soon realized: "I made a very bad mistake."

Depression is real and nothing to be ashamed of. We want to help you talk about it.

It's been 20 years since HIPAA passed, but it's still tough to get a hold of one's own medical records.

Ethane is one of the most useful gases to the petrochemicals industry. But it needs some extra processing before it can become polyethylene, the chemical used in plastics manufacturing — and that processing can cause harmful pollution.

Canada is pushing forward on its initiative to rid the country of coal-fired power plants by 2030 and put a minimum national price on carbon by 2019.

European colonists to the Americas brought with them illnesses that devastated indigenous communities. New research explores this history in the genetic record.

Winter has now hit North America and many of us are shopping for new winter boots. Researchers in Toronto came up with a rating system to test the slip resistance of 100 different types of winter boots, based on how they performed against icy conditions simulated in their state-of-the-art winter lab. You won't be happy with what they found.

Lebanese satirist Karl Sharro loves to poke fun at the state of the Arab world. But the tragedy of Aleppo has left him doubting satire's role for the first time in his life.

British musicians and politicians join together to sing a Rolling Stones classic in memory of Jo Cox.

The former head of the CIA and the NSA, Michael Hayden, says a Trump presidency could make "unwise" choices if it continues to reject intelligence assessments.