The World: Latest Stories

Southwest Airlines now says the college student it removed from a flight was ejected because another passenger believed he had made "threatening comments," including using the term "inshallah" — Arabic for "God willing."

Gangs in Peru and Colombia move from exporting illegal drugs to illegal gold.

Support for stricter regulation of foreign investment is growing in Florida after the Panama Papers revealed abusive practice of opening shell companies.

Asylum approval can take up to a year. Refugees keep arriving, and they wait, and wait.

The United States has come to rely less on Saudi oil, and there's a suspicion the relationship between the two countries is on the skids.

What's happening with the 12 Syrian refugees that Pope Francis took back with him to the Vatican?

Shrimp and octopus cocktails? Local lamb, lobster and octopus? Um, yes please. Plus, a recipe to make Yucatán-style Habanero salsa at home.

Despite civil war in Syria, and airstrikes by US, Russian and Syrian jets, bus service continues to towns and cities across the country, including to ISIS-held areas.

"Don't ever forget that CIA is not staffed by robots yet. It's still red-blooded humans doing everything they can."

The Mangyongdae Prize International Marathon in Pyongyang, North Korea, is open to amateur tourist racers. Journalist Alec Ash traveled there to run the marathon this year, and says he had to finish in four hours — or be shut out of the stadium.

Dungeons and Dragons was considered an "existential threat" to the soul of children during the '80s and '90s.

Juliette Kayyem, author of "Security Mom," says we've minimized risks as much as possible, but will never be 100 percent safe.

A deadly earthquake in Ecuador has brought out the best in Ecuadorians. But there's still much work to do to get aid to those who desperately need it.

Lawmakers overwhelmingly voted to impeach President Dilma Rousseff. And yet, winners and losers are not so clearly defined in this political crisis.

Sometimes, you can speed up the commute by sharing the escalator. But no one wants to share in London. So the government stepped in.

For this mother and son, the executive action at issue is really important and currently their lifeline. But it's not enough.

The Etruscans lived in central Italy more than 2500 years ago. They were "the teachers of our teachers," the Romans. Yet we still can't be sure where they came from. The key to unlocking the Etruscan enigma may lie in genetics and linguistics.

Women in some divisions of the US Forest Service and the National Park Service are coming forward with disturbing stories of sexual harassment in the work place, ending public silence about years of abuse and official neglect.

Rebuilding communities torn apart by Boko Haram isn't as easy as returning former child soldiers and forced brides back to their homes.

He and his wife were born and raised in Iran and moved to Canada more than three decades ago to escape political violence. But Mohammad and Ashraf Mohyeddin, soon to celebrate their 80th anniversary, still miss their homeland.

Two of the three main financiers of large dam projects in Honduras have suspended that funding after two activists opposed to the projects were murdered.

There's still visibility issues at the Grand Canyon, but things seem to be getting better. Here's how.

Freaking out about your Instagram feed? These tech experts explain social media algorithms.

Laurie Simmons is a photographer and recently spoke with actress Molly Ringwald about her work, and the intersection of motherhood and art

"I think the pope really needs to see Moria refugee camp, which actually right now is functioning as a detention center,” says one priest who works on the island.

Reporter Indira Lakshmanan watched the Sanders-Clinton debate Thursday night. And she has an interesting perspective on the campaign — having covered both Clinton's 2008 run for the presidency and her time as Secretary of State.

Manchester airport in England spent more than $1.5 million on six sniffer dogs for use with incoming passengers. They were trained to detect heroin and cocaine, but they ended up finding cheese and sausages instead.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is the size of Europe and a mile thick. And it's melting faster than we thought, with big effects on the level of the world's seas.

Utada Hikaru was the first Japanese musician to do it all. Sing, write and be a pop star. She quickly became one of the country's most successful musicians — a position no one has managed to take from her.

When Joseph Feingold bought a violin in a flea market in Germany after World War II, he could have never imagined what his violin would become.

“I don’t think I’m good at running just because I’m Ethiopian,” says Esu Alemseged, 18. “But I think if it weren’t for the Ethiopian identity, I wouldn’t be running in the first place.”

We trust computers to know more than we do. But what happens when it's wrong — and it has serious consequences for someone's health. It's more common than you think.

Can the Chinese men's team climb the ranks from doormat to the world’s elite in a generation?

Almost 300 girls were kidnapped in 2014 from Chibok, Nigeria, by Islamist group Boko Haram. At least a few of them appear to be alive in a video obtained by CNN, but nobody knows their whereabouts.

Malik Jalal believes he is on a US kill list. A Pakistani living in northern Waziristan, Jalal has survived four drone attacks that killed some of his close relatives. Now he wants the US government to hear him out.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman published her feminist novella "Herland" 100 years ago. Now a group of Herland pioneers want to make her fantasy a reality.

Struggling Rio de Janeiro state had to lay off security guards, making it easier for these high-schoolers to take over and demand a better education system.

Her family fled the Soviet Union in the '80s. And she recently spent time volunteering with refugees in Greece.

His sperm is believed to have been used to conceive at least 36 children in Canada, the US and Britain. Now three Canadian families are suing.

His keepers think he escaped to the ocean after the lid to his tank was left slightly ajar. It's actually common for octopuses to escape from aquariums.

Marina Nemat and Saeid Vafa have a lot in common. They're both Iranians. They both fled to Canada after running afoul of Iran's government. But they've come to different conclusions about the future of Iran.

Deivis Ventura is the first openly gay candidate running for Congress in the Dominican Republic. An aide calls him "a shock to the brain of the DR’s conservative society.”

Their story is a work of fiction included in Mia Alvar's book, "In the Country."

Immigrant advocates in Patchogue, on New York's Long Island, say Donald Trump's politics fuel anti-immigrant attitudes and his upcoming visit will stir painful memories of a 2008 hate crime that happened there.

Cellist Leyla McCalla explores the connections between the American South and Haiti on her new album, "A Day for the Hunter, A Day for the Prey." The title comes from a Haitian proverb.

Twenty-eight-year-old Ocean Vuong captures his experience coming from Vietnam to the US in his debut poetry collection "Night Sky with Exit Wounds."

The struggle to find balance between old and new, modernity and tradition, respect and assimilation, is one that people all over the world have been navigating for centuries. In this case, the tension was encapsulated in a series of beautiful photos that turned half a billion heads.

The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum is full of relics from the age of flight. But it's also home to items from the future — props from the original Star Trek TV show.

For Setsuko Winchester, a Japanese American, the idea of freedom from fear is deeply personal. So she used it as the inspiration for an art project.

A new book, London Fog: The Biography, profiles the heyday of this miasma and describes what it took to clean the air up.