The World: Latest Stories

It's been 70 years since the end of World War II. Author and historian James Holland says we've got the story of what happened all wrong.

What happens for the families in China who secretly had second children before the policy change?

A Chinese billionaire who got his start as a taxi cab driver stunned the art world again this week. With a swipe of his credit card, Liu Yiqian purchased a famed painting of a "reclining nude" by the Italian master Modigliani.

Isaura Ramirez came home from serving in Iraq only to battle depression. She turned a corner when her husband enrolled her in a comedy class.

Some charter schools in Chicago are trying to lure the best and brightest students back into teaching in their old schools. But what does it take to build a teacher?

Architects and utility companies have long focused on ways to seal buildings up and homes to make them more energy efficient. But new research demonstrates that good ventilation is crucial for our cognitive abilities and is easily achievable.

Thieves in eastern France used the cover of night to break in to a Napiot dairy farm. No one was harmed, but the thieves made off with 100 wheels of valuable Comté cheese.

So Vladimir Putin's pumped-up, drugged-out Olympians may get stripped of their 2012 medals. That won't undo the damage, says high jumper Erik Kynard, Jr. He may get a gold medal, years later, but says: "I won’t be able to go back to the podium and do a victory lap.”

Jews and Muslims both claim the burial site of Abraham in Hebron as their own. It's the Palestinian conflict in a nutshell.

It was supposed to be a beautiful night. Family and friends had gathered to celebrate their union. But their lives changed in seconds. Two suicide bombers attacked their wedding.

Imam Alyas Karmani is both a western trained psychologist and an Imam. For Muslims around the world he offers advice and guidance on otherwise taboo sexual topics.

The women who have served beside their fellow soldiers are still pretty much invisible in the public eye.

If you were out and about in Moscow's Lubyanka Square early Monday, you might have seen an unusual sight. A Russian performance artist set fire to the door to Russian's security agency, the FSB.

An unprecedented number of nations currently lack US ambassadors. A couple of dozen nominations are currently held up in the Senate. And that impacts US policy and credibility.

An Israeli resident laments, "Hatred in Jerusalem has been more popularized, more endemic, than any time that I can remember in the 43 years that I've been living here."

ISIS and al-Qaeda have ratcheted up their online squabbling as they jockey for leadership of the global jihadist movement, trading insults like school kids.

There are plenty of women rabbis in the US, but they come from the more liberal side of Jewish tradition. In the Orthodox world, women's ordination is starting be a thing. And it's controversial.

The University of Missouri has had a difficult semester, with African-American student leaders called racial slurs, a swastika of feces left in a dorm and other incidents student say have led to a culture where they don't feel safe.

The investigation into what brought down the Russian plane over the Sinai peninsula in Egypt continues. But there is a growing consensus that the plane was brought down by militants sympathizing with the terrorist group, ISIS. In the Sinai peninsula, there's considerable support for the extremist group.

For the first time in decades, the Burmese people went to the polls to vote. Now that social media isn't banned, they can share their experiences — one selfie at a time.

When a Tel Aviv neighbor left a racist note about him, Ziyad Abul Hawa posted a photo of it on his Facebook page. Now he's fielding media requests.

​The Kepler telescope picked up a “swarm” of movement near Star KIC 8462852. Some scientists are exploring whether or not this might be evidence of alien life.

IEEE Spectrum has been researching some of the US government's biggest IT project fails in hopes of understanding just why the government has such a dismal technology track record.

A physicist at Harvard has a new theory as to what caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

The presidential race is heating up across America, but north of the border a new face from a fabled political dynasty just romped into power with a landslide win that signals considerable change. Gone is the oil-friendly Stephen Harper and taking over as prime minister is Justin Trudeau, son of popular leader Pierre Trudeau, of the left-leaning Liberal Party. What does this mean for controversial energy projects in Canada and the US?

Gary Younge's forthcoming book about gun violence in America follows the lives of 10 slain children.

On Thursday, word came that ExxonMobil is being investigated for possibly misleading shareholders on the risks climate change poses to its business. On Friday, President Obama killed the Keystone XL oil pipeline to the US from Canada, citing the threat of climate change from burning fossil fuels. The oil business has seen worse weeks, but perhaps not many.

Sierra Leone is counting down to an Ebola-free future: November 7 marks the day the country will celebrate being officially declared free of the disease.

The Presidents of China and Taiwan are to hold their first summit since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949. They are to meet in Singapore on Saturday. But it’ll take a long time for relations to be normalized.