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Long before news broke on the Panama Papers, Ken Silverstein, a contribuing editor for Vice, was deep in an investigation of the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Tabloid news outlets are calling him the Russian Rambo. Alexander Prokhorenko was a Russian special forces soldier who died in Syria on March 19. It’s being reported that he called in an airstrike on his own position as it was being overrun by ISIS fighters. But how true is the story?

The Soulbury Stone has rested in the middle of a road in the small town of Soulbury, England for 11,000 years. And if residents have their way, it will sit there for eternity.

Iraq's largest dam was built in the 1980s under Saddam. Now US officials warn it's in danger of failing.

If you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.

How over-engaging your pre-frontal cortex can lead to a creative block.

Every election season, politicians, pollsters and media talk about "the Latino vote." But that's not exactly right.

They've been called "the Panama Papers." That's because Mossack Fonseca, the financial firm that helped thousands of clients avoid taxes and launder money is based in Panama. So what makes Panama the perfect spot for firms like these to operate?

Survivors of Boko Haram's 'rape camps' arrive home to accusations and suspicion.

Leaked documents show that close friends of Vladimir Putin own multiple companies in offshore tax havens worth billions of dollars. One such friend is a famous cellist, a guy who once ran with Putin on the streets when they were teenagers.

The resignation came after a huge protest, as Icelanders felt betrayed after his cheerleading of the Icelandic economy.

Two researchers who interviewed Syrian ISIS defectors say many of them joined up for a job and food — not because of ideology.

You may have heard of the slow food movement. But have you heard of the slow fashion movement? It's all about clothes that are built to last and are better for the environment.

After many months of being the primary target destination for more than a million refugees, the European Union is starting to turn people back. It’s part of a controversial deal signed by the EU and the government of Turkey.

Gato Barbieri was one cool cat, and it wasn't just the trademark fedora. He earned his nickname while sneaking in and out of nightclubs around Buenos Aires when he was a kid. He went on to be regarded as a master saxophonist and band leader. The World's Host Marco Werman has an appreciation.

The vast majority of deaths due to cancer are because of metastasis — but what if a new drug was designed specifically to go after metastasized cancer cells.

According to a new book, humanity is rapidly pushing past Earth’s planetary limits. More than 7 billion humans live on Earth, but we consume so many resources it would take more than one-and-a-half Earths to sustainably supply us all. While this may sound dire, we already have the means to ensure our survival.

A recently published study shines a light on how urgent the problem of rising sea levels may be. Before this century ends, as many as 13.1 million Americans may find themselves forced to move because rising oceans make their homes unlivable.

A sculptor uses an installation to illustrate just how much art and science have in common

Elections throughout Latin America have been rigged for almost a decade, according to a hacker who is making alarming allegations about smear tactics and election rigging.

China's state news agency, Xinhua, apparently decreed a ban on April Fools' Day this year calling it "inconsistent with core socialist values." This hasn't hampered Chinese netizens from joking about the ban on joking.

Preliminary evidence suggests the seafaring Vikings may have ventured farther south into North America than previously thought.

In northern Mexico, there's a place called Copper Canyon. It cuts six slits into the Earth and hidden between the cliffs and valleys is where an American concert pianist has decided to settle with his one-ton grand piano.

President Obama is hosting his fourth and final biennial nuclear security summit. Since coming to office he has made it a priority to keep nuclear materials around the world out of the hands of terrorists. But experts say there’s still a ways to go.

A new book looks at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of Americans who took up arms to fight there. Many viewed the conflict as a preluder to World War II.

The lifting of US sanctions on Iran may mean people in the US can finally buy Iranian pistachios. But Israelis yearning for a Persian pistachio are still out of luck.

"As I was watching, the largest of the whales started swimming directly at me, at which point I got very scared because I know that they are the only animal which could, and indeed have swallowed a human being, and it's not nice way to go.“

Even as the weather becomes increasingly unpredictable and extreme events become increasingly frequent, it’s still considered scientifically incorrect to blame global warning for any one event. But a new report says it is now possible to estimate the influence of climate change on some types of extreme events, such as heat waves, drought and heavy precipitation.

Necessity led to Cuba's move into development of vaccines for hepatitis B and lung cancer, as well as innovative treatments for diabetes.

Donald Trump said women should be punished for abortion. In El Salvador, they are.

But he probably won't be — despite the country's top court ruling that Jacob Zuma breached the constitution.

He decided on a path in music by way of poetry — then the beat kicked in. Now he's a rising star and just signed by Def Jam. We caught up with Toronto's Jahkoy after his set at the 2016 SXSW in Austin, Texas.

Under apartheid, millions of black and mixed-race South Africans were forced to leave their homes and move to barren land, away from white South Africans. Now, some families of color living in Cape Town fear the history of forced evictions is about to repeat itself, this time under a democratically elected government.

“If you think about 'Fiddler on the Roof' for example, there’s no scene where Tevye and his family are sitting around eating pastrami sandwiches,” says Merwin. “This was like the caviar of eastern European Jewish life.”

"It's about equal rights," says Hope Solo.

David Trinidad and his wife Ivonne had just recently started using Fitbits, when Ivonne said that hers was malfunctioning. The device was showing an unusually high resting heart rate and recorded 10 hours in one day in what it called the “fat burning zone,” even though she had not been particularly active. But her Fitbit wasn't broken — she was pregnant.

Since 9/11, colleges and universities have been launching programs dedicated to terrorism studies. Despite increased demand, colleges are still clamoring to find faculty well-versed in the history, language and culture of violent extremism.

President Dilma Rousseff’s biggest coalition partner just dumped her, and the party’s already planning sweeping changes if it takes power.

Here's why backing out of major US trade agreements like NAFTA might not be such a good idea for US workers.

A new street art campaign in Malaysia shows the prime minister as a evil clown. It's a protest against a corruption scandal involving the prime minister and the police crackdown on dissidents in Kuala Lumpur.

Otto Skorzeny was one of the most successful and audacious commanders of special operations forces in World War II. He was also a diehard Nazi. So historians are astonished to learn this week that — after the war — Skorzeny was recruited by the Israeli intelligence service, Mossad.

A new film explores what it was like to be a high school friend of convicted Boston marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

A pair of ophthalmologists discuss why you probably don’t need to exercise your eyes and five other commonly-believed myths about the eye.

Molenbeek in Brussels was the home to some of the Paris attackers. It's a largely immigrant and Muslim district and now some residents complain it's being portrayed as a den of terrorists. Reporter Adeline Sire went on a tour with a Molenbeek city councilor who wants the world to see a different face of Molenbeek.

Syria's security forces scored a big victory after they re-claimed the ancient city of Palmyra this week. They couldn't have done it without the backing of Russian airpower. Russia's involvement has helped strengthen Syrian President Bashar Assad ... but to what degree?

Cellebrite, a company headquartered in a Tel Aviv-suburb might have helped the FBI hack into the San Bernardino attacker's iPhone.

"The ban wouldn't be good for anyone," says the owner of one of the largest seafood importers in Sweden.

After attacks in Paris and Brussels, security has hardly been a bigger concern in Europe. And soon France will be hosting the soccer tournament Euro 2016, with stadiums jammed with hundreds of thousands of fans.

Rebeca Lane gets inspiration from women who defy patriarchal norms, and her current tour is meant to help others do the same.