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Men wielding machetes hacked to death the founder of the only LGBT magazine in Bangladesh on Monday.

He didn’t break new ground or offer specific foreign policy proposals, but Donald Trump might know what he’s doing. This correspondent says the speech was “smart politics.”

A small town in New Hampshire has a familiar name — Berlin — but with an odd pronunciation. A World in Words producer set out to figure out why.

It's become popular in Thailand lately for adults, mostly women, to collect life-like dolls that they treat like their own children. Considered good luck, most of the dolls are blessed by monks.

"John conducted himself in the most difficult of circumstances with a huge amount of integrity," says longtime friend John Rae.

Welcome to northern Thailand, where bile is a flavor enhancer.

It's been five years since the Arab Spring started, with hopes for tremendous change for residents of dictatorships throughout the region. Most of those protests failed, though two authors say it's too soon to judge.

Every morning, behind a metal door marked “secret," Carlos Martins and two other bakers make enough dough and custard for 20,000 pastries.

Papa Wemba died earlier this week, after he collapsed on stage in Ivory Coast. The star, known as the king of Congolese rumba, was jailed in 2004 for smuggling Congolese people to Europe. Lubangi Muniania, a Congolese arts educator who knew Papa Wemba, explains Wemba's history.

Hundreds of Somalis have died trying to reach Europe just this month; many more over the past year. A group of activists are hoping a hashtag campaign will help inspire others not to make the journey.

A town in Colombia gets new life in East Boston. But now gentrification threatens that rejuvenated community.

Ninety-six fans died after thousands surged into an English soccer stadium back in 1989. At first, the police blamed the fans. Now, 27 years later, a jury has reached a different verdict.

On April 26, 1986, the world suffered its worst peacetime nuclear disaster, when the Soviet reactor at Chernobyl went into meltdown. One survivor talks about how it affected her and her family.

American journalist Theo Padnos thinks much more can be done to help Westerners still held captive by extremists in Syria.

Though interracial and interethnic couples are free to date more openly, individuals in these relationships must navigate stereotypes, myths, preconceptions and misconceptions.

As is the case with many religions, Buddhism morphed and evolved as it moved around the world. So it's no surprise that Buddhism in the West has adapted, too.

For one village in Nepal, there's a silver lining to the earthquake: A year later, a new and better health clinic is rising from the rubble of the old. And it includes a birthing center.

An international panel of investigators has wrapped up its probe into the apparent massacre of 43 students in southern Mexico in 2014. The panel now accuses the Mexican government of stonewalling their investigation into the student's disappearance.

Anup Kaphle visited Nepal three times in the past year — twice to report on the earthquake, and once to get married.

It's tough to describe, but fans say it's the greatest sports story the world has ever seen.

Shinola watches have sold well in the US. Now the Detroit company is trying to sell Detroit's comeback story, and its watches, overseas.

In the Mississippi Delta, ambitious plans are underway to rebuild thousands of acres of marsh land, the first line of storm-surge defense for New Orleans and the surrounding communities. But progress has been slow and questions remain about funding this enormous project.

The number of people living with diabetes has gone up, but so has the price of insulin. Why is this?

Here's what studying ancient Pueblo societies can tell us about the current drought in California.

In the wake of the Deepwater Horizon accident, Louisiana residents are being far more cautious about oil and gas drilling in their state.

The pop star wasn’t a huge fan of the music industry or online streaming. But this also policed uses of his likeness — even individual's tattoos.

His proposed law would allow pharmacies to sell prescription-only drugs made from cannabis.

British Prime Minister David Cameron knows the impact Obama's message could have in his country — and on undecided voters watching the evening news in Britain tonight.

Prince could have made news on countless other national TV shows. But some 20 years ago, he chose Tavis Smiley.

In the early '80s, Prince and Bowie were changing the sound of pop. Sonny Lê had just arrived, a refugee from Vietnam, and didn’t know where he would fit in America — until he discovered their music.

It's a hit — about NOT getting hit. Canadian Mounties make a video about road safety and they use Drake's beats to do it.

Not so long ago, Thailand could boast about having one of the fastest growth rates in the world. But political turbulence, protests and a couple of coups have taken their toll. And there's anxiety about what will happen when the beloved king dies. How might the new Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Economic Community help Thailand get its act back together? What risks does Thailand's volatility have for a nascent regional grouping, with big aspirations to counterbalance China?

Japanese migrants moved to Brazil by the hundreds of thousands. Now, their descendants are moving back.

It's Queen Elizabeth's 90th birthday and Britain is going gaga over it. So how's this for a present? Jamaica is thinking of ditching her as its official head of state.

Usually a parade of global figures lining up at the UN to sign a document is pretty much just for show — a lot of words and gestures for questionable real-world impact. But this signing ceremony for the new Paris climate agreement could be something different.

The haze is often so thick that people drive with their fog lights on until mid-morning. New York's air, in comparison, "feels as clear as water from a mountain stream." Rhitu Chatterjee writes.

Saudi Arabia's brutal air campaign in neighboring Yemen is casting a long shadow over President Obama's visit to the kingdom.

Gaming emissions testing systems is common in Europe, arguably less so in the US.

After the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, which allowed the capture and return of slaves from states and territories in the US even where slavery was outlawed, Tubman began bringing slaves to Canada. On many occasions, Tubman brought runaway slaves to a church called Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Ontario.

“I was expecting a comfortable life and that they would provide us with help. But it was so difficult.”

How one of the BBC's best investigative reporters was inspired by the Purple One from Minneapolis.

Two developers who brought foreign investment to an impoverished part of Vermont are now accused of misusing hundreds of millions of dollars.

There’s at least one delegate who has promised to support Trump at the convention this summer.

There's a lot of confusion in Delhi over what to do about a massive Indian diamond — the Koh-i-Noor — that's been in the British crown jewels for more than 160 years. India's solicitor general says the Brits acquired it fairly, but the rest of the government says otherwise, and now wants it back.

Lutz Bachmann is the leader of Pegida, an anti-Islam, anti-immigrant political movement in Germany. And his opinions on refugees have him in trouble with the law.

Pro-Trump signs being put up in one Boston neighborhood have resurrected old feelings from the early 1990s, when large numbers of Central Americans began moving there and encountered racial resistance.

Which of these science studies happened and which are fiction. You may be surprised.

"Titanic: Honor and Glory" takes you on board an exact 3-D model of the ship sinking in real time.