The World: Latest Stories

When the Dakota Access Pipeline was thought to be endangering the water supply of the city of Bismarck, North Dakota, the path was changed without any objection.

The town of Gävle constructs a gigantic straw goat each year for Christmas. It costs the town nearly $250,000 to build. And each year, someone lights it on fire.

Arnold Giammarco was deported to Italy. He says the lack of a bond hearing destroyed his life.

"It would be the height of folly if the next administration were to tear up that agreement," John Brennan told the BBC.

The imam behind the plan hopes building relationships with some of his Christian neighbors will bring calm and understanding.

A former ACLU lawyer who challenged the secrecy of the president's drone program says Congress and the courts should have provided more oversight.

Perhaps 1 million Ukrainians have settled in Russia since the conflict in Ukraine began in 2014. President Vladimir Putin promised that Russian-speaking Ukrainians would be welcome. But it was largely an empty gesture.

The capital of Denmark was known as a place where bicycles rule the roads. Now, they really rule.

The $2.2-billion structure has been edged into place over an existing crumbling dome that the Soviets built in haste when disaster struck three decades ago.

Donald Trump often boasted that he’d stop American companies from shipping jobs out of the country. Now he's doing that. But at what cost?

Fidel Castro's death has this Cuban artist declaring it's time for the island to reinvent itself.

Krysten Leach was born in Korea, but she didn't grow up eating that country's food. Now she grows traditional Korean vegetables and herbs at her farm in California — which has become a destination for other Korean adoptees.

Belgium and The Netherlands are historic rivals. But their new border agreement could be a lesson on diplomacy for other nations to follow.

As the crisis in Venezuela deepens, many there are doing what Colombians did during the height of their war. They’re heading to their neighbor across the border for food, work and a better livelihood.

Canadian police in Prince Edward Island want to punish drunk drivers by making them listen to Nickelback — on cassette.

A plane crashed Tuesday in the mountains of Colombia, after declaring electrical failures, killing an estimated 75 people. The plane was carrying the Chapecoense Real, a Brazilian soccer club that had risen from obscurity to reach the Copa Sudamericana finals.

American photographer Daniel Traub was documenting life in an African neighborhood in the Chinese port city Guangzhou. When he met two Chinese men making souvenir photos on a pedestrian bridge there, he found a key to telling the story of Africans in China — through the images they posed for.

Lionfish is a delicacy that’s catching on in restaurants. But in this case, conservationists are begging you to eat your fill.

There’s long been a hesitation by blue collar workers to train for a new career. Put yourself in the shoes of a manufacturing worker in his 40s or 50s.

The proportion of people in America who’d be fine with a military government has leapt from one in 16 in 1995 to one in six by 2015.

An election recount gets underway this week in Wisconsin, while Jill Stein pushes to get recounts started in Michigan and Pennsylvania as well.

In a small apartment in the sprawling capital, Fidel Castro spent time with fellow Cuban revolutionaries. The neighbors remember them as "loud talkers."

Beyond wigs and toupees, the demand for human hair far outstrips the supply. It's used for all sorts of things you’ve never heard of.

Fidel Castro's death prompted exclamatory tweets from President-elect Donald Trump. What's next for US-Cuban relations going forward?

For more than 100 years, the governments of both the United States and Canada forcibly assimilated generations of Native people by taking their children and sending them off to English-only boarding schools — a process the pushed the majority of indigenous languages to the brink of extinction. More than 35 years ago, a small Mohawk tribe in New York decided to fight back — by creating a school of its own.

Pro-government forces in Syria have made rapid progress in the past few days, attacking the rebel-held portion of the city of Aleppo. Thousands of civilians are fleeing. The defeats are raising questions about whether the rebel cause is doomed.

Melting in the Arctic is an example of climate changes that, if not stopped and reversed, could become drivers of climate change in their own right.

The formerly fringe, far-right party is growing in popularity, but hasn't gained real political power yet.

On Monday, a weeklong farewell to Fidel Castro kicked off with hundreds of thousands gathering in Havana's iconic Revolution Square.

Otherwise, the “social mistrust” many of us are feeling can have dangerous consequences for our minds and bodies.

A section of the big island is roughly analogous to what Mars was like in its youth, 3 billion years ago.

In 1987, nations agreed to phase out stratospheric ozone-harming chemicals called CFCs. But the replacement compounds, HFCs, turned out to be powerful greenhouse gases. Now countries have agreed to phase out HFCs under the same international agreement.

With rhinos on the verge of extinction, conservationists are turning to novel efforts to prevent poaching. Enforcement agents in South Africa are now using a DNA database to help them identify the origins of seized rhino horn.

It works so hard, for so little recognition.

This year’s Living Planet Report from the World Wildlife Fund documents nearly a 60 percent decline in wildlife populations since the 1970s.

Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to make math relatable — using dessert

Campaign promises suggest Trump will try to reverse a number of Obama-era environmental policies, including the Clean Power Plan.

In the height of the Cold War, Soviet and American scientists worked together to limit nuclear proliferation.

The best female skiers in the world are going to be in Killington, Vermont this weekend for the Women's Alpine World Cup.

French voters on the left are so worried about the extreme-right National Front's growing popularity that they're voting in the political right's primaries.

The US alt-right is a mishmash of people dissatisfied with the Republican establishment and focused on the prosperity of white people.

Some residents of the Japanese island worry that President-elect Trump's "pay your fair share" attitude to regional security could be destabilizing.

US companies used to dominate the steel roller coaster market. No longer.

Residents of this neighborhood used to drive a long way for good groceries, but new stores are popping up as a result of a wave of refugee resettlement here.

Her parents survived war and upheaval in Korea. Then they embraced bland Thanksgiving rituals in an effort to give their kids a predictable, safe vision of their future.

You buy the kit, swab your mouth, send it back — and poof! You are Native American. Not quite.

The Portuguese fado singer took a 5-year break from recording to be a full-time mom. Her new album brings her personal and professional worlds together with new depth.

A Japan Meteorological Agency official asked residents to tweet photos of the snowflakes to help with "researching the mechanism of snowfall."

Many Americans are nervous about the incoming Trump administration banning Muslims from entering the US. That includes some Christians in the state of Georgia who've been helping Muslim refugees resettle in the US.

Former political prisoner Francisco Marquez says he witnessed beatings and torture during his four months in Venezuelan prison. He's now in the US trying to draw attention to the human rights crisis back home.