The World: Latest Stories

More and more people are fleeing wars, poverty and discrimination. Many leave their homelands in search of a better life, only to be stopped at various international borders. The lines determine who can enter and who can leave. Yet, borders can be flattened — for a price.

Life is full steam ahead for this Syrian family, recently resettled in California. But post-Paris, they've noticed stares from strangers and worry that their relatives, hoping to come to the US too, may not be allowed in anytime soon.

As world leaders arrive for a global climate conference in a locked-down city, climate activists look for ways — legal and otherwise — to express their concerns.

More than 2,600 civilians have been killed in the civil war in Yemen, most from air strikes by the Saudi-led coalition backed by the US. Global Post reporter Sharif Abdel Kouddous is just back from Yemen, and tells the story of one air strike that targeted a home where a wedding was taking place.

The Broadway revival of the Tony Award-winning play "Spring Awakening" is running through January 9. But this revival is special for how it's being staged.

A group of researchers think they have a cure for hearing loss that doesn’t involve a cochlear implant

Wind and solar power have the potential to reduce the growth of greenhouse gases and slow the progression of climate change. But since the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow, the big hurdle in expanding the use of renewables is the lack of cheap and efficient storage of that energy. That could be about to change.

Suffragette takes a real life story and brings it to the big screen.

Migrants and refugees from Middle East nations, like Syria, are continuing to pour into Europe by the thousands, every day. Many land on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Pope Francis is on a pilgrimage in Africa, which he calls “the continent of hope.” But hope is something that’s been in short supply for many people of the Central African Republic. Francis plans to visit CAR, despite the shaky security situation.

In World War II, many Jewish families had to split up in order to survive. This is the story of one of those families.

Boko Haram violence in Nigeria is an almost daily occurrence. And Facebook's safety check is doing little to help those impacted.

Iceland is — geologically speaking — a crazy place. The local language, for instance, includes a specific word to describe the phenomenon for a volcano detonating beneath a glacier and triggering a flash flood. And now our changing planet may be setting a new geological domino effect in motion.

Many people open their wallets to give to charities at this time of year, but it can be overwhelming to figure out where exactly to give. How do you make sure your cash is going to the right place? Ask reporter Amy Costello right now on The World's Facebook page.

This week, some of the world's most-prized pieces of art went on display in Iran's capital. The pieces have been kept in a storage in the basement of Tehran's Museum of Contemporary Art for decades.

Mitch Albom first tried to be a singer-songwriter, but proving that even the most successful of us can have trials and tribulations, was a total flop.

A watchdog website says the US has been undercounting civilian fatalities in air strikes on Syria and Iraq, and that now Russian air strikes are killing civilians at an alarming rate.

Colony Collapse Disorder in honey bees has been in the news for years. But a lesser-known, and equally serious, problem also threatens honey bee populations: a pest called the Varroa mite that kills bees and weakens hives. Researchers and backyard beekeepers are teaming up to create a honeybee built to fight off the Varroa mite.

American expats around the world often cast their eyes homeward on Thanksgiving. But for some expats in Paris this year, Thanksgiving will be all about France.

The presidents of France and Russia met in Moscow Thursday to discuss cooperation against ISIS. Both nations have suffered at the hands of the terrorists this month. But a grand alliance is easier to talk about than achieve.

Pope Francis is in Nairobi, Kenya, at the start of his first official trip to Africa. He told a gathering of religious leaders in Kenya that dialogue between different faiths is challenging, but essential. BBC East Africa correspondent Ann Soy is following the pope's Africa visit.

You'll know you're in the right spot when the gravy smells of cumin and ginger, and when the stuffing foregoes bread in favor of basmati rice.

Marisa Kaplan had it all figured out. She flew to Johannesburg with a thawing turkey and turducken in the overhead bin. But then she hit a Thanksgiving brick wall.

My mother was a Moroccan exchange student in 1960s Wisconsin and learned to love America. But she didn't entirely understand it.

Illegal drug factories in Syria and Lebanon are churning out millions of pills of Captagon. The amphetamine is unheard of in the US, but there's an insatiable demand for it across the Middle East.

Using community college education to chip away at poverty in western Texas.

A wave of migrants from the Mediterranean meets a hostile reception from many Americans. The migrants are seen as alien in religion, culture, politics, law. So different in fact that some Americans argue that they can never be assimilated. They are the Italians, in the 1890s.

For Americans, this busiest travel time of the year comes with a warning.

"As a person who never dealt with war, it hits you hard. You wake up and you're like, because of the color of my skin today, I have to be in fear."

Since the Paris attacks, there have been several crimes targeting Muslims in Ontario, Canada. That’s left many of the province’s Muslims on edge. But the incidents have also produced some goodwill.

When it comes to the migrant crisis, Hungary sees itself as the responsible adult in Europe.

Israeli linguist Arik Sadan is an authority on the Arabic language. Palestinian Sobhi Bahloul is Gaza's best-known Hebrew teacher. They share a love for the other's native tongue. But these two linguists have never met.

After the Paris attacks, people in the poor immigrant suburbs feel even more isolated.

Sam Fromartz went to Paris to learn how to make that most fickle of breads, the baguette. And it's that loaf, he says, that will help the French as they deal with the aftermath of the recent terrorist attacks.

ISIS has vowed to eliminate the "gray zone," the sphere where Muslims and non-Muslims accept their differences.

Black South Africans who make good have the financial burden of taking care of extended family. But now some South African millennials are starting to dodge the "black tax."

A newly declassified document suggests the US totally misjudged a war scare in 1983-84. It seems the Soviet Union really expected the US to launch a first strike, and consequently prepared its own pre-emptive strike. Nuclear Armageddon was set on a hair trigger.

Belgians reacted with humor when police put the city of Brussels on lockdown over the weekend. Twitter was flooded with funny cat tweets. This is unsurprising says Willem de Graeve, who co-directs the Belgian Center for Comic Strips. That's the Belgian sense of humor.

Turkey says the jet flew into its airspace. If so, it follows a year-long pattern of Russia testing international airspace for combat missions.

One priest who helped victims of the Paris attacks remembers his own experience helping communities in New York after 9/11.

The founders of a growing bakery-café in Los Angeles are breaking the rule that small business immigrant entrepreneurs do better by sticking to their own communities and crossing ethnic borders.

The emergency response to the terrorist attacks in Paris was credited with saving lives, but it was a different approach than the response Boston saw to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. Emergency responders say comparing the two emergency models can help us prepare for possible future attacks.

For centuries, herds of pronghorn have traveled hundreds of miles across the west in the second longest land migration in North America. But today, pronghorn often encounter barbed wire fences on private and public land that delay or halt their journey. Now, scientists and wildlife managers are developing fencing systems that allow the pronghorn to cross safely.

Hint: it's not just oil money.

It's out with the old ruling party in Argentina. Voters Sunday placed chose a new president, the business-friendly opposition candidate named Mauricio Macri.

Beyond the "obligatory slice of bacon" left on the door of mosques, Muslim students in Paris say they haven't felt singled out since the attacks. But they're worried.

The climate in Brussels after the Paris attacks has one business owner planning to paint over the word "Syrian" on his shopfront.

A passport was found near the body of one of the suicide bombers in Paris. It was that of a Syrian man who had arrived on European shores on October 3. It turned out to be a fake. This is just one example of thousands of fraudulent passports in circulation today.