The World: Latest Stories

The low-lying Pacific island nation of Kiribati has become a poster child for the threats posed by sea level rise. Now its former president, Anote Tong, is trying to raise money to save it.

Arabic is a language, not a violent ideology. Some Americans who know this are having a lot of fun learning this culturally rich and diverse language.

Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton has joined forces, but there's no word whether Sanders' supporters will fall in line.

The future of work in America is likely to be more flexible, possibly more precarious, for many people, as the gig economy expands. Why is this happening, how can more people thrive in this transition, and what does it mean for America's place in the world in this century? Economic historian Louis Hyman of Cornell University, author of "Debtor Nation" and "Borrow: The American Way of Debt," weighs in.

The Yemeni store owner who filmed the shooting death of Alton Sterling is getting threats, struggling to sleep and losing customers. And he holds the Baton Rouge police responsible.

Washington has no credibility on human rights, Egyptian officials said after the recent killings by police. But an Amnesty International report levels disturbing accusations about Egypt's own oppression by law enforcement.

It's not just local black residents who fear police interactions in the US. Now citizens from Caribbean countries like the Bahamas see reasons to be extra cautious while traveling in the US.

Being labeled black has nothing to do with your skin color in Russia, it has to do with being an "outsider."

Some aspiring young chefs will join First Lady Michelle Obama for a nutritious and delicious lunch at the White House on Thursday. The "State Dinner" will feature recipes that have been selected as part of the national Healthy Lunchtime Challenge.

Imam Omar Suleiman is a Muslim scholar from outside Dallas. He says it’s important for Americans to stand up against police brutality. He also led prayers at the memorial service for the five Dallas cops who were shot and killed last week.

After a long stay with the Camerons, Larry the cat welcomes new Prime Minister Theresa May to 10 Downing Street.

A recent espionage arrest in California has echoes of past, more successful incidents of spying against the United State, and is also another indication that even as espionage has become more technologically sophisticated, some of the oldest rules of the profession still hold true.

When Garnette Cadogan moved from Kingston to New Orleans, he realized walking in the streets in the US was completely different from Jamaica. Here, people looked at him like someone to be avoided, a threat.

At least one big industry in Ukraine is thriving, not in spite of the conflict with Russia, but because of it. It's their shared love of Ukrainian TV productions.

At least four people have died in the backs of private prison transport vans since 2012 — two from ulcers that coroners later said could have been easily treated. Another dozen prisoners and guards have died in crashes since 2000.

Composers are riffing off of the outgoing UK prime minister's tune in pieces that vary drastically in style. The compositions have been getting hundreds of thousands of views and re-posts.

After a weeks of political chaos in the wake of the Brexit referendum to leave the European Union, Britain has a new Prime Minister. And the for the first time since Margaret Thatcher, the country is to be led by a woman from the Conservative party — only the second woman ever.

Cuban singer-songwriter Silvio Rodriguez does pop-up concerts in poor neighborhoods throughout Cuba. But he doesn't want the media to know that.

Inside Café Blå Time, which means "Blue Hour" café in Danish, a crowd gathered to watch a line-up of international musicians during the Copenhagen Jazz Festival.

The code that powered the Apollo moon missions is now publicly released on GitHub, a site where code can be stored and shared.

Mercy Krua is a Liberian refugee who lives in Boston. Her son, Jefferson Krua, was also a Liberian refugee. But he decided to move back to Liberia and make his life there. In part, he says, because no matter how much money he could make in the US, he would always be a black man in America.

You may call them weeds, but a new book suggests thinking of them as spontaneous urban plants — an overlooked urban ecology that may provide more benefits than we think.

After a week of violent tension, some are asking if America is seeing the beginnings of a race war. But can there ever be winners and losers in such a fight?

South Sudan became the world's newest country when it split from Sudan in 2011. But now, there are echoes of another civil war.

Former London police officer Nick Glynn has been stopped by police dozens of times. The fact that he was a police officer didn't change much.

Author Bee Rowlatt read the work of Mary Wollstonecraft when she was a student and instantly became obsessed. So obsessed, in fact, that she set off on a journey to find out more about Wollstonecraft's life and legacy.

What does it take to feel invested in American politics? For this immigrant from Cameroon: Barack Obama.

The Dallas police chief has defended his decision to kill a suspected shooter with a bomb delivered by remote-controlled robot.

Portuguese fans are happy that a kid from Guinea Bissau chose to come to their country as an immigrant. And Éder is happy for what Portugal gave him: a chance to score a miraculous goal.

In Kenya, public protests against unlawful police killings are gathering pace, after the torture and murder of a lawyer and two other men allegedly at the hands of the police.

Do you remember the last time you were stung by a honeybee? Would you say that it felt “burning and corrosive?” Or more like “a flaming match head quenched first by lye, then by sulfuric acid?” Could you assign the pain a numerical value? A new book ranks the pain associated with bee and ant stings and provides helpfully poetic ways of describing them.

The octopus has the largest-known genome in the invertebrate world and more genes than humans. What other marvels will this ancient creature reveal?

Despite its reputation as a terrible killer, the beautiful and charismatic great white shark is less of a threat to you than your own toaster.

It’s been four decades since Congress approved the original Toxic Substances Control Act. Now, in a rare display of bipartisanship, both houses of Congress passed the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, a long awaited overhaul of what is often referred to as TSCA.

Air travel has become increasingly irritating for most travelers in the past decade or so. Travelers might be facing one more irritant in the future: flights delayed or cancelled due to extreme heat.

What do you know about horseshoe crabs? Probably not much, right? But consider this: Their blood, aside from being an unusual shade of blue, has become an essential biomedical tool used worldwide.

The agreement between President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi could have profound impacts on the future of renewable energy in India and other countries.

Police reform is local, and you have more power in local government than anywhere else in the US electoral system.

There's a program in Philadelphia that helps inner-city kids deal with trauma and PTSD. What they teach the children can also help you deal with the tragic news this week.

Julia Nekessa Opoti hosts a radio show in Minneapolis called "Reflections of New Minnesotans." She says some immigrants she hears from on her show say they are reliving traumatic days they thought they had left behind.

Some local legislators are now questioning a successful 2002 ballot measure that curtailed bilingual education in the state.

On a trip to Scotland, Chuck Wexler was struck by the fact that police officers there don't carry guns. He wondered whether the police in the US could do the same. So he took a group of police chiefs on a trip to Scotland to learn more.

“It's war of past and future,” says the 26-year-old head of the customs house in Odessa, Ukraine. “A war against corruption, war against this old way of thinking, war against Soviet heritage, and war for a modern Ukraine.”

Seth Moulton was against the Iraq War but still four tours as a Marine Corps officer. Now a Democrat in Congress, Moulton offers his take on political leadership and war.

Many Salvadorans say they're harassed and worse by heavily armed police patrolling poor neighborhoods. But few dare to use the latest technology to hold security forces accountable.

The 90s series of rock festivals, known as The Tibetan Freedom Concert, was a result of a random encounter between a 23-year-old American activist and Adam Yauch.

The Olympics are a month away and there's real concern about security in Rio. Amnesty International just released an app to help people document gun violence.

There was a dispute over money. But instead of making him pay, they started to troll him.

Reverend Lee Wesley of the Community Bible Baptist Church is part of an interfaith group that’s calling for a broad and transparent investigation into the killing of Alton Sterling.

The 2014 police killing of Alex Nieto, a young Mexican American, sparked lawsuits and street protests, but little else. Artists in San Francisco have kept the case alive through a sold-out play.