The World: Latest Stories

The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wasn’t going to leave anything to chance. It moved aggressively to pre-empt any efforts to commemorate the 2011 revolution.

Palestinian record stores are selling CDs with titles like "The lovers of stabbing" and "Jerusalem is Burning."

In today's Egypt, it's hard to find the same kind of hope that fueled the popular revolution in 2011 that brought down a dictator and inspired people around the world.

Despite the campaign rhetoric about global warming, there is one fact none of the presidential candidates can deny: Republicans and Democrats passed a federal budget at the end of 2015 which extended renewable energy tax credits for five years and lifted a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. This compromise could have implications for the climate.

Wildlife in the West is often protected by authorities, but the animals' presence is not always appreciated by locals. In Montana, the hot dry summer meant not a lot of berries, and that, in turn, meant that many bears had to forage far from their normal territory.

College hasn't changed all that much since the 1950s. Except for the price tag. Arizona State University president Michael Crow explains why we should rethink college.

All of the Democratic contenders have called for government action to address climate change, but there seems to be little appetite for that among the Republican candidates on the stump in New Hampshire, where the first primary is just a few short weeks away.

Miguel Del Toral raised red flags about Flint Michigan's water in July 2015.

Big snowstorm, in case you didn't hear. Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia are getting totally slammed. Blizzard warnings. As much as two feet of snow could fall. It’s enough to send shivers down your spine.

What's the link between $8 cauliflower in Canada and the drop in oil prices? Why aren't low oil prices a boon for consumers?

Oil companies have been the richest companies in the world for more than a century. Can they transition to dominate the next century's fuel source too?

Amal Clooney is a successful British attorney, known for taking on human rights cases. This week she took on the case of an investigative journalist in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, who’s in jail. The Azerbaijani government has counterattacked with personal attacks on her.

The radicals of ISIS espouse an extremist version of Islam. When historical facts or physical relics don’t jibe with that uncompromising vision, ISIS seeks to liquidate them. Sometimes, that means putting them up for sale.

The Casita Center for Technology, Science and Math is beating all other schools in its district on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests, which evaluate Common Core standards for English language arts and literacy, as well as for math.

Ron Fournier, the senior political columnist at the National Journal, argues that Americans at all levels — politicians on down — deserve some of the blame for what Flint, Michigan, has beeen allowed to become.

An official investigation in the UK has concluded it's highly probable that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the assassination of an exiled opponent in London in 2006. Alexander Litvinenko took three weeks to die, in excruciating pain, after being poisoned with highly radioactive Polonium-210 by Russian agents.

A bakery owner from Massachusetts used her vacation days to volunteer in a refugee transit camp. She slipped aboard one of the decrepit trains that take refugees from Macedonia to Serbia and this is what she saw.

So, what would you call Planet 9? Now that scientists at CalTech have found evidence for a ninth planet in our solar system, it's your turn.

The Pakistani military's strategy to deal with militants is to pack the country's border with soldiers to prevent their entry. But a bloody extremist attack at a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday has citizens worried that militants are already inside the country.

Zika virus is a distant relative to yellow fever. It's native to Uganda and was mostly considered harmless. That is, until it came to Brazil, where it's being blamed for babies being born with unusually small brains. And now, paralysis.

Here's the story of the only Syrian on Korea's Jeju Island. He's asked for asylum there, but Korean authorities say the war back home isn't enough of a reason to get it.

Whether with refugees or recalcitrant dictators, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has ambitious plans for how the last year of her tenure will unfold.

Essa Hassan is new to Mexico and the first participant in a project to give Syrians scholarships to study there. Thirty more students may be on the way.

Since October, a leaking underground natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles has released vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere, becoming one of the nation’s worst environmental accidents. Some experts believe this disaster may be a harbinger of what's ahead for these aging storage facilities.

Consumers should expect to see more and more electric vehicles soon. But with falling gas prices and plunging stock prices, who is going to buy them?

American neuroscience student Caitlin Duncan was among the women caught up in the mob outside Cologne's train station on New Year's Eve. A group of Syrian refugees came to her rescue.

ISIS is out with a new edition of its propaganda magazine, Dabiq. Their lead story is the attack in San Bernardino. It’s claiming responsibility and encouraging its supporters to emulate it.

BBC reporter and presenter Rana Rahimpour was born in Iran. She also has a British passport. Before, that would have allowed her to travel to the US without a visa. Not any more.

The US Patent and Trademark Office says the name is Cuba's to keep. But the Bacardi company has vowed to carry on the fight.

You might wonder why a doctor from Atlanta, a successful heart surgeon, would bother to go to a Syrian refugee camp as a volunteer? Dr.Omar Lattouf knew very little about the Syrian crisis and the massive refugee problem until he arrived at Jordan's Al-Zaatari Syrian Refugee Camp.

Sometimes it can feel like children of immigrants in the United States have a duty to be grateful. But Bianca Tylek felt she had to speak out — after the public defacement of black faculty portraits at Harvard Law.

Lead mining, smelting and other exposures kill an estimated 143,000 people per year.

The war back home in Syria forced women into new roles outside of Syria. Some of them are creating opportunities for themselves.

With so many men killed or missing, it’s up to the women to run their community, and they’re making a difference in people’s lives, including their own.

People in Flint, Michigan, are rightly concerned about the quality of their water. But, it turns out, there are really few safeguards for any Americans.

After 14 months of negotiations, last weekend Iran agreed to release five American prisoners. In return, the US released seven Iranians from its jails in the US. So who are these Iranians?

Scientists working in Greenland are looking for tiny clues to help fill in the big picture about the fate of the island's giant ice pack. They're using cutting edge technology to track minute changes that could help predict what a warmer future might hold for Greenland and the rest of the world.

China’s economy, one of the drivers of global growth, has begun to slow.

Comedian Gad Elmaleh is a huge success in France. He performs for arenas around Europe to thousands of fans. So why did he want to leave that all behind and try his hand at stand-up in the US in English?

Undocumented Central Americans in the United States worry about their futures as deportations rise, along with violence back in their home countries.

Yes, Jason Rezaian is free. But what was it like to be inside Iran's notorious Evin prison? She knows.

It's easy to fix matches in tennis. All you need is one person on the hook. And betting on yourself to lose in the first round could net a bigger windfall than winning a tournament.

About a decade ago, several of Greenland's biggest glaciers suddenly began melting. A decade later, two groups of scientists are trying to unlock the secrets behind a scientific mystery story with potentially big consequences for the future of the island's rapidly-melting ice sheet.

One day after punishing economic sanctions against Iran were lifted, the Obama administration announced new sanctions on Iran’s missile program. It’s a hint of the tough road ahead.

Back in Boston, out of an Iranian prison, Matthew Trevithick wasted no time hitting his favorite burger joint.

This is prime wildflower blooming season in Israel. But not so long ago, the country's wildflowers were under threat of extinction because people were picking way too many of them. Then, a PSA campaign was launched that got Israelis to stop picking flowers in order to preserve them.

Alejandro González Iñárritu is a vocal supporter of immigrants, no matter how they got here. This political cycle, he's been disappointed by xenophobic and anti-immigrant statements from candidates.

The Chicago Police Department has been beset by reports of potential misconduct and police-on-civilian violence. There's an effort to change the legal situation so there is more oversight.

Tem Blessed, an environmentally and socially-conscious hip hop artist, uses contemporary music to communicate the importance of the environment and sustainability to young audiences.