The World: Latest Stories

Saudi Arabia presents a picture of wealth and stability in the Middle East. But filmmaker James Jones has captured a different side of the kingdom. Through secret interviews and a network of Saudi activists armed with hidden cameras, he shows a government deeply concerned about security. And people who fear persecution by authorities.

Archaeologists have uncovered what might be the oldest battlefield in the world, in a boggy valley in northern Germany. The remains of hundreds of slain warriors and their armor and weapons have been recovered. The researchers say the find is changing everything that history knows about society and warfare in Bronze Age Europe.

It's a new dawn for computing. Scientists are hoping quantum computers will be able to help us better understand some of the universe’s biggest problems.

How do you defeat graffiti? Given that graffiti is an Italian word meaning "scratches," it figures that Italians would come up with a solution, a virtual solution anyway.

Some of the city's archaeological gems suffered serious damage under ISIS's 10-month grip.

Carrie Rodriguez is a Texan, but with deep roots to Mexican pop music through her great-aunt, Eva Garza. Rodriguez pays tribute to her great-aunt and adds her own contemporary twists to classic ranchera's on her new album, "Lola."

Some of the suspects in the Brussels and the Paris attacks were Belgian, of Moroccan descent. And that's something that Abdel Lahrour can't understand. He's Belgian, born in Morocco. And he's proud of his Belgian identity. This weekend, he took his sons to a vigil for the victims of the Brussels attacks, trying to make sense of it all.

Polar adventurers keep breaking records. But can they be trusted?

Studies have shown that Donald Trump gets "free media" on broadcast television to the tune of nearly $2 billion since his campaign began. And he's allowed to do things — like phone interviews — other candidates never can do.

American tourists are expected to flock to Cuba once travel restrictions are lifted. That may be bad news for this "accidental Eden."

Recently published studies point to an exciting new development in ocular stem cell therapy.

Much of the city of Fort Lauderdale, in south Florida, sits just two feet above sea level and already floods multiple times a year. Yet developers are cashing in on new housing near the sea, and there seems to be no shortage of buyers. Will this someday give new meaning to the phrase ‘burying one’s head in the sand’?

Fighting fungal diseases that have killed millions of frogs and other amphibians has become an urgent priority for scientists worldwide. Now, some new research suggests that natural soil bacteria might provide protection from these devastating diseases.

A dairy expert unlocks the mysteries of processed cheese as well as the secrets to the perfect, delicious, creamy homemade macaroni and cheese sauce

Environmental campaigns often court trouble when they oppose global companies that want to extract lucrative resources, and there’s no more extreme example than the Niger Delta, where oil companies have drilled since the 1950s.

It likely wasn't the catastrophe some media outlets initially reported, but the disappearance in Antarctica of a large colony of Adelie penguins may be a sign that a changing climate means difficult conditions ahead for some of the world's ice creatures.

Thousands of angry shepherds recently stormed the parliament in Bucharest, the Romanian capital. It was a protest against a measure that would regulate, get this, sheepdogs.

A social media firestorm in Canada has followed the acquittal of former CBC radio star Jian Ghomeshi in the first of two sexual assault trials.

Jews celebrated the holiday of Purim this week, marking the survival of the Jewish people from an attempt by the Persian Empire to destroy them. But the holiday is controversial for some.

Easter is one of the biggest holidays in Belgium. The country is the chocolate capital of the world. But this year, it feels strange to splurge on sweets.

The US is helping Europe on counterterrorism efforts, but it can only go so far, says a US security expert.

ISIS's European network of militants has proven to be more extensive and deep-rooted than security services expected. And new evidence shows that the architect behind that network was one man: Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

People in Yemen are exhausted by a year of war. But the prospect of an April 10 ceasefire is inspiring less optimism, and more cynicism. There have been many ceasefires since March 26, 2015, but few real pauses in the fighting, which has taken more than 3,000 civilian lives.

A young Yemeni man wants you to know how war changed his life. His two-minute audio recording is a heartbreaker.

Turkey has seen a wave of terror attacks like never before. But Turks refuse to let that be their status quo, and they're saying so publicly.

Dutch soccer legend Johan Cruyff has passed away. As part of the Dutch national team, he helped revolutionize soccer. Actually, he led the revolution.

He was trained as a psychiatrist, fancied himself a poet and was known for his flamboyant head of hair. Today he was convicted of genocide and sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Why was Belgium so slow in its efforts to find a suspected Paris bomber?

While America still has far to go in reducing racism, we've come a long way. Over almost a century of life, Betty Soskin has lived through segregation, the civil rights era and Black Lives Matter. As the nation's oldest park ranger, she reflects on how the needs of the nation during World War II helped speed social change — not just for women but also for African Americans.

One of the Brussels bombers might have been stopped, had Belgian security officials reacted to intelligence passed along by Turkish authorities.

Drought in India means Holi without water balloons and rain dances. One reporter, at least, prefers it that way.

Dallas may not have ever become a major city were it not for a the failed efforts of a French socialist dreamer.

The European Union is preparing to send thousands of asylum seekers back to Turkey. One of them is a man who worked with the US military in Iraq.

First her son was recruited. Then he left for Syria. When he was killed in the fighting there, this Belgian mother turned to parents in the same situation for solace.

America's infrastructure, its roads, bridges and more, is crumbling. It's something politicians of all stripes, Democrats and Republicans, agree on. But still nothing gets done. Blame the complex funding structure.

What if you never had to worry about your clothes fitting you in the future? What if your clothes were tailored exactly to your body.

When Fidel Castro ushered in the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere, Soviet Russia fell in love with Cuba. And the romance that lasted decades.

Thursday marks 40 years since the military coup in Argentina that began the "dirty war" dictatorship. A Nobel Peace Prize winner says President Obama should have skipped this trip.

Belgian writer Ismaël Saidi, now a successful playwright, grew up in Schaerbeek, the same neighborhood where bomb-making materials were discovered after this week's attacks. His dream for a nation is one that grows together with education, a love of life and hope for the future.

If you looked back at the past 25 years of terrorism, in some 30 percent of cases you'd see siblings.

The calmness is striking on the faces of the suspected ISIS bombers of Brussels.

When news of the ISIS attacks on Brussels was heard in Paris, it seemed especially close. It was just last week when Salah Abdeslam, a key organizer of the Paris attacks in November, was captured in Brussels. We met several Parisians who observed a moment of silence Wednesday in front of City Hall in honor of the Belgian victims and their own.

President Barack Obama's speech to Cubans today featured echoes of Ronald Reagan's 1987 plea to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Leaders from the European Union said the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday were aimed at all of Europe. But there are questions about how the EU will respond in the long term.

Bomb attacks in Brussels, at the main airport and at a subway station, have left more than 30 dead and almost 200 wounded. Why is Europe in general and Belgium in particular having such a problem with terrorism?

It's different when a bomb goes off in a city you know.

Radio and TV Martí, a US government operation that has delivered news and information to Cuba since the Reagan Administration, is at a crossroads. Many argue that the Martis remain critical. Others say the broadcaster is a Cold War relic and are calling for its end.

Actor Jeff Daniels has made his mark on a number of films playing a complicated anti-hero with deep flaws. What makes him so good at it?

License plate readers scan plate numbers and then cross-reference them with a “hot list” of plates of wanted or stolen vehicles. The problem is that only a small fraction of the plates are on the wanted list; the rest belong to non-criminal, law-abiding people – people whose movements the government could now conceivably track.