The World: Latest Stories

The song "Gloomy Sunday" was written in 1933, in Hungary, and has been recorded by artists from Billie Holiday to Björk. Because of its subject matter, some artists have refused to record it. But a record label in Berlin asked musicians to record their versions — and the results are anything but gloomy.

All of Britain is on edge waiting to see what happens in the EU referendum on Thursday. Could "Brexit" really happen? And if so, what does it mean for an estimated 1.2 million British citizens currently living in other European countries?

The Dutch have spent centuries trying to hold back both the sea and the big rivers that flow into it. But rising water due to climate change is forcing a new approach for their low-lying country.

Hurricane Sandy devastated lower Manhattan. But rebuilding New York’s waterfront has been complicated. If you were in Europe, the buildings on the lower Manhattan coastline might not have been rebuilt. That’s because European cities vulnerable to flooding have learned to live with it, putting parks next to coastlines that sometimes overflow.

It's partly nostalgia for the type of weapon that safeguarded him in Vietnam, says Luis Quiñonez, a 64-year-old former Marine. Still, the NRA member is not a fan of some of the issues advocated by the NRA.

This week, people in the UK will decide whether they want to stay in the European Union or leave. One hot topic within that discussion is immigration. I went to my old school in London to find out what it's like to be an immigrant or a child of immigrants there in 2016.

Hundreds of bees with "license plates" were released by a London university today. Scientists are hoping that the tags will encourage the public to engage more with the insects.

León Krauze is a Mexican journalist and a Univision news anchor who has asked Mexican soccer fans to stop their homophobic chanting.

"In Spanish, the masculinized version of words is considered as gender-neutral. I don't think its appropriate to assign masculinity as neutral when it isn't."

Increasingly, the Kenyan government has been taking steps to root out terrorists on its own soil, but the crackdown has been marked by disappearances and extrajudicial killings, which has only inflamed the simmering resentments of young men in the coastal city of Mombasa.

President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.

There seems to be no end to the indignities in rapidly failing Venezuela. It's the start of the Western Hemisphere's own humanitarian crisis, says an AP correspondent in Caracas.

If voters choose to depart from the EU, Britain will take a "leap into the unknown."

It’s illegal. It’s also deadly. But at graduations, birthdays, weddings, funerals — even when a politician just speaks on TV — firing guns into the air is a favorite way to celebrate.

Milad Khawam, a Syrian refugee in Berlin, describes his music as a "schizophrenia of feelings." It's the mix of emotions, he says, of someone who has left everything behind and is starting over.

After two and a half millennia of being ruled by men, Rome was Monday under new management.

When it comes to preparing for sea-level rise in coastal cities, the Dutch have a big head start on the rest of the world. And their best array of tools may be on display in and around the port city of Rotterdam.

As Iraqi forces drive ISIS out of Fallujah, thousands of civilians have finally been able to escape. But the camps they are arriving at, in 120-degree heat, are "nightmarish." Some people are even dying in them.

Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, many of them children from Syria. In “Everything Will Be Alright,” Kirsten Boie writes the story of one Syrian family that fled bombings in Homs for safety near Hamburg, Germany.

Juan Felipe Herrera's poem on America, post-Charleston and post-Orlando. "We shall not forget U Orlando," he writes.

Istanbul authorities said on Friday they had banned the annual gay pride parade set for June 26 to "safeguard security and public order" after a string of bombings around Turkey over the past year, some of them blamed on the Islamic State group, others claimed by Kurdish militants.

Learn how to make solar ovens, water rockets, and other DIY summer science projects

New York fashion week started during one of the world's darkest hours.

“The reason we don't understand [animals] better is because we're not smart enough.”

Why national parks are especially important in light of climate change.

These field microbiologists have discovered a species of life form that consumes iron.

A study says 98 percent of crimes in Mexico go unsolved. The nation is changing its justice system to try to change that.

This mountain lion trekked over 2,000 miles from South Dakota to just outside New York City. An author, using DNA and witness accounts, meticulously tracked its improbable journey.

American travel and food writer Zora O'Neill studied Arabic for seven years when she was younger. In 2011, post-Arab Spring, she traveled the Arab world to learn how the language is spoken by people as different from one another as Moroccans and Emiratis. Her new book, "All Strangers are Kin," is a travel memoir held together by her passion for the language.

Trump's spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, has said Trump was referring to Iraqi soldiers, not US soldiers. But US veterans are not happy.

Russian athletes cannot compete in track and field events in Rio this summer. But when you look closely at the ban, it really shows the agency tasked with keeping the Olympics clean isn't doing its job.

When is a tree not a tree? When it’s a coconut palm in the Indian state of Goa.

Danae Elon’s famous Israeli father didn’t want her to move back to the Jewish State. But she did it anyway, with her own family. Elon’s documentary is a deeply personal story about home and heartbreak in Jerusalem.

Pomp? Circumstance? It's actually a fiercely patriotic British song.

Proposals in the US House and Senate would enable the government to prohibit people on terrorist watch-lists from buying guns — and they'd also allow for universal background checks.

Since the Utoya massacre almost five years ago, there have been no mass shootings in Norway.

Khaled Almaghafi is a bee master in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's spiritual work, too. "You see how they dance, how they collect the honey, how they work ... you feel deep inside there is a creator," he says.

It's more than fun and games. President Barack Obama said the park “captures the promise” of the bilateral relationship between the US and China.

Dago Bailón was born in Mexico and crossed the border to the US when he was a kid. He lived in the US illegally for years until a law passed by President Obama allowed him to stay. After that, he had to go through another form of coming out: coming out of the closet.

Bhutan had a serious street dog problem that was turning off high-end tourists and spreading rabies. So the Buddhist kingdom did something no other country in the world has done: carried out a nationwide spay/neuter and vaccine program.

The Puerto Rican government says it can’t pay back the debt it owes and keep vital government services fully functioning. But some services are already being hampered, and have been for a while.

Oil fuels your car, heats your home. It's in toys, cosmetics, some clothes, most plastics. But it too often comes from places where people are suffering or indirectly funding terror. What can you do? An author has some ideas.

There were armed, off-duty police officers and bouncers at Pulse when an assailant carried out the worst mass shooting in modern American history, but there were no metal detectors, and the bouncers weren't checking bags or patting people down, according to eyewitnesses.

The indie-rock band Mashrou' Leila is perhaps the only high-profile Middle Eastern musical group with an openly gay lead singer.

"Visibility is a very powerful weapon in these discussions. It's basically a performance of oneself. That is one of the most powerful things you can do, being proud of yourself and achieving visibility."

Puerto Rico is a tough place to be gay. Homophobia is strong. LGBT islanders used to think Florida was a place where they could live openly. But after the Orlando shooting, they're not so sure any space is safe.

The people of Britain vote next week on whether to remain in the European Union or leave. But who exactly can vote?

Congress is working on a bill to address the island’s fiscal crisis. Many Puerto Ricans think the proposal is unfair.

A series of doping scandals involving Russian athletes has led to calls for an outright ban against the entire Russian Olympic squad. Now Russian athletes are waiting to find out whether they're going to have to sit this one out.