The World: Latest Stories

The International Olympic Committee voted unanimously to add new sports to the official games roster, in an effort organizers hope will get young people pumped again about the event.

In Canada, aboriginal women and girls have been going missing for decades.

In the aftermath of airstrikes, civilians in Aleppo organize to find the injured.

Rio will have drones, an international command center, and even giant surveillance balloons keeping watch over the Games. There’s good reason for officials to stay vigilant.

The government in Rio de Janeiro commissioned an official funk carioca song for the Olympics, because the style is so popular in the city. But funk musicians in Rio say city authorities have been cracking down on them for years, raiding their parties and destroying their equipment.

Turkey's post-coup crackdown continues and one of President Erdogan's targets is his country's political cartoonists. Their response: Even more biting satire.

Researchers have found 15 specific regions in the human genome that could signal a risk of clinical depression.

Tourists come to the Great Bear Rainforest to shoot the grizzly bears that live there. Some are using cameras — others are using rifles.

For the first time, Taiwan’s government has apologized to its indigenous people for centuries of mistreatment.

One line goes, “You almost got it right there, when you called me a feminazi, but you missed a little detail, the one walking down the streets with fear is I.”

Canada's "War in the Woods" ends with a land agreement that could save forests around the world.

When a place has been besieged for years and hunger stalks the streets, you might have thought people would have little interest in books. But enthusiasts have stocked an underground library in Syria with volumes rescued from bombed buildings — and users dodge shells and bullets to reach it.

Activists released thousands of live cockroaches, among other live insects, in protest against immigrant workers being detained and deported.

Active duty service members are expected to remain apolitical, but the rules for vets are much more limited — if there are any at all.

Tomatoes are a prized staple in Nigeria, but there's a severe shortage and prices are soaring. At first, many people has conspiracy theories about what caused the shortage.

US military personnel are supposed to stay out of politics. But why is that? It's not the case elsewhere in the world. A look at the roots of the civil-military relationship.

Republican leaders have been concealing their intelligence for decades — but it was always more of an act. For Donald Trump, the act is reality, argues foreign policy expert Max Boot.

It's one thing to talk to people you've never met before who are suffering from hunger, and it's a completely different thing when they are from your own family, as the BBC's Vladimir Hernandez discovered when he returned to his native Venezuela to report on its failure to get food on people's tables.

Birders have a bunch of tricks to help identify different birds — color, size, how the bird flies, where they see it, and, of course, its song. Now imagine trying to identifying birds in flight high in the sky in the middle of the night where you can't see them. How would you do that?

Working in the besieged Syrian city tests the resolve of even the most daring doctors.

Tayyib Rashid is a proud Muslim American who served in the Marine Corps for five years.

Republican candidate Donald Trump appeared confused about recent events in Ukraine in an interview Sunday with ABC. But Trump did affirm his desire for a good relationship with Russia, and that he was planning to look into the idea of recognizing Russia's annexation of Crimea.

Scam emails in Nigeria are nothing new, but this con artist made $60 million off his fraudulent letters before getting arrested.

Brazilians love their feijoada, but if you're not a big pork eater it can be a pretty gnarly mix, with anything from pigs' faces to feet and even tails. Here's a way to taste the classic stew while visiting Rio, meat not included.

PreMenstrual Syndrome says English makes it easier to push the envelope in socially conservative Albania. But is the message lost in the process?

The countdown to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio has begun.

A remote campground in southwest New Mexico has recently become the world's second dark sky sanctuary for star gazers. The rapid spread of light pollution prevents more than half of the world's population from seeing the Milky Way.

Can you recycle your pizza boxes? Where do all those used plastics go? These and other recycling mysteries, explained.

These scientists are trying to figure out what the health costs of racism are.

Laughing and crying: comedian Chris Gethard takes on depression in his shows

If ghosts were real, how would we scientifically describe them?

Congress just passed legislation to create a national GMO labeling standard. If signed into law, it would override more stringent measures that went into effect in Vermont on July 1. Neither the food industry nor advocacy groups that oppose GMOs are pleased with the result.

Six months ago, the Obama administration put a moratorium on new coal leases on public lands. During this planned three-year pause, the Department of the Interior is reviewing its management of taxpayer-owned coal, including its impact on global warming.

The brain behaves differently when you're laughing. Just how differently? Find out.

It's a big deal that Clinton has received the nomination. But it's also about time.

If elected, Hillary Clinton would be the first former secretary of state to become president since before the Civil War.

The team's star-studded roster includes players like Stephan El Shaarawy, Francesco Totti, Daniele De Rossi, Radja Nainggolan and Edin Dzeko — all celebrities in the soccer world.

"Life's a bitch. Don't vote for one" is *probably* not a slogan approved by the Trump campaign.

Rev. Jesse Jackson has urged Democrats and black voters to unite behind Hillary Clinton, in spite of his long association with Bernie Sanders.

Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are the fastest growing segment of the US population. And they didn't go unnoticed this week.

Eastern Aleppo could turn into "the largest humanitarian tragedy" of the Syrian conflict, the European Union said.

At age 21, Hillary Rodham became the first student to speak at a Wellesley College commencement. The college just released the full audio.

Hillary Clinton has held various political roles, from first lady, to senator, to secretary of state, to presidential candidate. And her positions on trade have shifted along the way.

Guantánamo Bay hasn’t really been a topic at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. But the trials being held there against five accused terrorists continue.

Hawaiian is often offered up as a language revitalization success story, a model for other endangered languages to follow. But language revitalization isn’t so simple. While activists are reviving the Hawaiian language, opening up pre-schools, teaching thousands of second language learners, there still is a small group of native speakers who have never lost the language, a group of native Hawaiians from the island of Niihau.

Conspiracy theories can appeal to the cynical, the distrustful and the anxious. They've been woven through the past century of China-US relations, on both sides, more often at some times than others. Here's a look at one of them, that starts with a young American missionary turned military intelligence operative, and the myth and reality behind why a staunch anti-Communist group decided to make him their patron saint, with Terry Lautz, author of "John Birch: A Life."

"We are in a moment now where partisans no longer stop at disagreeing with each others' ideas. Increasingly, they deny each other’s facts, they disapprove of each other’s lifestyles, they stay out of each other’s neighborhoods."

After a string of violent attacks last week, Germany is now faces a new global problem: lone wolf terrorism. But the German response to the horrifying attacks is unique.