The World: Latest Stories

The vaquita is a rare cetacean species that lives in the Gulf of California. And efforts by poachers to catch another endangered fish are also entangling the vaquitas.

Humans today live in a sea of chemicals, and we are just beginning to understand how they affect our health. The endocrine disrupting chemical Bisphenol-A has been linked to physical illnesses like cancer and research from the University of Missouri found that the common substance seems to impair parenting behavior in mice.

Technology experts are worried the US voting system is vulnerable — and not to voting fraud from lack of voter ID. They're worried about hacking, especially so after recent attack on Democratic Party computer systems.

The world’s fastest swim stroke probably isn't what you think. It's not the crawl, or the breaststroke. It's the "fish kick" — and here's why.

How actor Danny McBride takes the worst traits in characters — meanness, profanity — plays them up, and still convinces you to love them.

While women are usually the farmers in traditional societies, it’s still a male-dominated business in the US. But women are slowly changing the face of farming in the US, especially by raising and selling home-grown vegetables, flowers, jellies and other farm products.

Wildlife trafficking is a global problem and the US is not immune. In the Pacific Northwest, a small law enforcement and judicial team polices Washington and Oregon for wildlife infractions, but limited resources, budget woes and loose laws allow poachers to evade penalties.

Songs have been written about Louisiana's great flood of 1927, and about Katrina. As the state is inundated anew, music plays a role in bringing communities together.

Between Zika, filthy water and crime, the 2016 Rio Olympics had a lot of doubters.

Religious dress codes: Are they just about religion?

We're getting better at figuring out whether something like this month's deluge in Louisiana was influenced by climate change. And that's important, says a climate scientist who's also an aid worker, to get a better handle on what might be ahead to try to avert more human disasters.

Dating apps have been around for a while, but not the industry is expanding to create apps more focused on finding friends than finding a special someone.

There are allegations of fixed matches and widespread doping. This isn't anything new. But it's time boxing took itself seriously so others did, too.

This week the right-wing Polish governing party proposed a new law to outlaw the use of phrases like "Polish death camp" or "Polish concentration camp."

Many Ktunaxa lost their native tongue when they were sent to church-run boarding schools. Now the Ktunaxa language is making a modest comeback at a local school where both First Nations and white students study it.

In a crazy twist, US swimmers in Brazil went from being supposed crime victims to suspects of an investigation.

Instead of spending the summer lying around playing on a smartphone, these kids are strumming and harmonizing.

Oded Gur-Arie was not yet 13 years old when he found out his father was not like most other dads.

Five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was among eight people, including five children, injured when Russian or Syrian government forces wrecked his home in a nighttime airstrike.

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said this week he was ready to get vicious in the war with what he called radical Islam. But he also said he was ready to embrace "moderate Muslims." The leader of "Muslims for Peace" responds.

In the absence of any sex ed, advocates are trying to get teenagers to take matters into their own hands, and teach each other.

Chinese swimmer Fu Yuanhui has won fresh praise online for speaking frankly about having her period while competing in Rio.

There was a fear that rowers would get sick from the waters in Rio. But that hasn't been the case. If anything, the venue for the regatta was picture perfect, and even clean, US rower Andrew Campbell says.

A group of international aid workers and volunteers working in South Sudan were attacked and harassed by South Sudanese army soldiers. Some were then raped and tortured. Jesse Bunch was there.

Veteran reporter Arun Rath long surmised that a big release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay was in the offing. What he didn't know was that 15 prisoners would be shipped to a third country while he was reporting from the base.

In Nicaragua, abortion is illegal, even if a woman's life is at risk. But some abortion rights advocates claim the government is quietly turning a blind eye to certain abortions, including in the case of women infected with the Zika virus.

Dr. Farida is among 29 doctors in the besieged Syrian city who have appealed to President Obama for help. They say they are being deliberately targeted by the Syrian regime.

Especially the kids. They show up early to get the best seats.

Millions of Iraqis in makeshift camps suffer through temperatures regularly topping 100 degrees Farenheit.

Christiania is a community in the center of Copenhagen. Musician Lukas Forchhammer grew up there in the '90s, at a time when there were no cars or streetlights and a toilet and running water were considered luxuries. Still, Lukas says Christiania had a "utopian vibe" and it helped shape the young man he is today. Lukas now fronts his band Lukas Graham; a band with a string of international hits.

Sylvia Earle wants to create "blue parks" in the oceans in order to preserve and restore threatened species — not the least of which are humans.

"The Bangladeshi community believes 100 percent that this must be a hate crime, in some way. And not a robbery and not a random assault."

It's been almost 100 years since a South African won gold in the 400-meter men's track and field final.

Jamaican Sprinter Usain Bolt won his third straight gold medal.on Sunday in the 100-meter sprint. Not long after he took his victory lap, NBC announcer Bob Costas said, "With apologies to all you reggae fans, I think that Bolt has even outdistanced Marley."

An expert says Rio de Janeiro residents are thinking, "It’s sad, but it happens all the time, and now it’s in the headlines just because it’s a foreign athlete."

When Monica Puig won the women's singles title, the island celebrated. Sure, it's a big deal for a country to win their first gold medal. But it's finally some good news in a place that could use it.

The Amud Aish Memorial Museum aims to tell a spiritual story of the Holocaust.

An American oncologist shares his story of a patient who refused treatment because of his religion. "Donald Trump is right," she said. "America should ban all Muslims from immigrating here."

The Goutte D’Or neighborhood in Paris is home to a group of fashion designers who combine traditional African wax prints and western designs to make something completely new.

Florence Foster Jenkins was known as an awful singer — but she did it with gusto. In that vein, we offer these "awful" songs for you to listen to.

Moth week was in July, but if you missed it, it's not too late to go mothing.

Dolly was a milestone for cloning — but she didn't survive long. Some of her clone sisters, however, have lived on.

Compressor stations that pressurize gas to keep it flowing through pipelines have proliferated across the country as the natural gas industry expands. But some residents who live near these compressor stations in Ohio complain of health problems that they link to the new facilities.

Cities along the Eastern Seaboard may be uniquely vulnerable to the effects of climate change. One of those cities, Boston, is taking steps now to plan for an uncertain future.