The World: Latest Stories

Old world maps and atlases are chock full of history, uncharted territories and, if you look carefully, sea monsters.

Americans can now see the Hitler comedy that's been such a hit in Germany. Its director says now is an OK time for Germans to laugh at Hitler. They just have to laugh at the right thing.

In contrast to its US allies, the Canadians want to normalize relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The Conservative-led government in Ottawa abruptly cut off ties with Iran in 2012. Now, the new Liberal government says it’s time to turn the page.

By creating a minimal version of a cell, scientists are learning a lot about the number of genes needed to create life.

The Pentagon’s stockpile of air-to-ground munitions has suffered an unexpected dip — and it may take a long time to restore it.

An archaeological dig has unearthed a surprising find: An ancient recipe for a peppery Peruvian fermented drink.

A recent investigation by USA Today into lead levels in water systems across the country found more than 2,000 examples of systems that pose a risk to consumers.

David Cameron, one assumes, had a rough Saturday morning thanks, in part, to journalist named Abi Wilkinson who helped organizing thousands of protesters that took to the London streets calling for his resignation.

From the Paris climate agreement to the Pope’s environmental encyclical, 2015 should have been a banner year for climate change coverage by the media. But a recent report from Media Matters for America documents a decline in network TV coverage of global warming.

A research team analyzed water from the Hubbard Brook research station in New Hampshire to show that the Arctic is now sending the US Northeast more water than in recent history. And much of that moisture is coming in the form of snow.

A new Asian power rises, fueling awe and anxiety. Its economic rise seems inevitable, until it doesn't. We've seen this movie before, with Japan in the '80s. Now it's China's turn, and while history rarely repeats itself, it can rhyme, and it's rhyming now as China's economic growth slows and challenges, some similar to those Japan faced, mount. So what might China learn from Japan's experience? And how is Japan shaping a new role for itself, so it will continue to matter in this century?

On Friday, Pope Francis released Amoris Laetitia, a 256-page apostolic exhortation in which he writes about the matters of the family covering things from divorce to gay and lesbian members of the church.

Back in 2004 a suicide attack in Iraqi Kurdistan took away Bayan Sami Abdul Rahman's father and older brother. It was a painful and grim reminder of the challenges the region faced. But it was also a moment that pushed her to become a voice for her homeland.

The 160-mile race goes over some of the worst roads in France. Trains don't stop for it. And the winners get their name in a shower stall.

Researchers figure that roughly a third of all the food we produce is never eaten. In Paris, a new restaurant is taking a small slice out of all that waste by salvaging discarded food from a local market, cooking it up into fine cuisine, and serving it on a "pay-what-you-can" basis to a clientele that includes some of the city's neediest residents.

Venezuela's economy is deep in recession; drought is causing crippling shortages of energy and food. And to cap it all, the government can't respond effectively because of a crippling political rivalry between a socialist president and an opposition-controlled congress.

Keiko Fujimori leads the polls by double digits, but it's unclear if she can convince Peruvians she's different enough from dad to win a second-round vote.

The Antarctic krill, tiny shrimplike crustaceans, are a key part of the ocean’s food chain for whales, penguins and seals. Increasingly, krill have also become part of the human food chain — krill oil, with omega-3 fatty acids, is advertised as a wonder drug that may help combat heart health, high cholesterol and even improve our moods.

An Israeli soldier's shooting of a suspected Palestinian attacker has become a national issue — because of a video of the incident.

Mostafa Massouny is one of more than 1,800 Egyptians who just disappeared in 2015. They're believed to have been taken by Egyptian authorities, to an unknown fate.

There's no question air travel made the world a very different place. But it may not have been as revolutionary as was once thought.

The Panama Papers have been making headlines around the world, except in China. Censors have been working double time to erase any mention of the leaked papers or the connections to Chinese President Xi Jinping's family members.

Panama says it's setting up an independent commission to review regulations governing financial and legal services, in the wake of a massive leak exposing the murky world of offshore finance. The Panamanian company at the heart of the crisis, Mossack Fonseca, says it's done nothing wrong.

New restrictions have reduced the number of cars on the road, but that might not make much of a difference.

Climate change has far reaching impacts — including on French cuisine. Many restaurants in the foodie mecca now have on their menu dishes that have been deemed “good for the climate.”

US authorities announced this week that they have arrested a group of people who allegedly helped foreigners fraudulently keep their students visas and get worker visas. They were tracked down using a fake university set up by federal agents.

A new poll released on Thursday found that 43 percent of Icelanders would vote for the Pirates if elections were held today.

A state law in tiny Vermont is pushing many large food companies to label GMO-containing products nationwide.

In 2010, tragedy struck in Haiti. And amid the chaos, Haitian music collective Lakou Mizik came together.

British Author Laura Bates started the Everyday Sexism Project back in 2012. Now with more than 100,000 stories, the project has turned into a worldwide phenomenon chronicling real experiences with daily, normalized sexism — from street harassment and workplace discrimination, to sexual assault and rape.

The politicians and staff are gone now that the state's primary is over, but some residents are left to deal with animosity stirred this political season.

Amaq actually "embeds" reporters, but aims for a gloss of neutral, "objective" language.

After more than 200 years, Kathryn Sargent becomes the first female tailor to open up a shop on London's famed Savile Row.

Donald Trump has a new way to pay for a border wall: seize remittances destined for Mexico. President Barack Obama's calling the idea 'half-baked' and some Mexicans are alarmed.

Nigeria's romance novels, known as "littattafan soyayya," shift between morality tales and pulp romance.

In Canada, an imam from Iran has joined up with his next-door neighbor, a Reform rabbi, to help raise funds to resettle families fleeing civil war. What brought the unlikely duo together? It began with parking.

The warm welcome many Syrian families receive in the US does not always apply to schools.

Among the victims were 46,000 widows and orphans of mineworkers — who continue to suffer to this day.

Long before news broke on the Panama Papers, Ken Silverstein, a contribuing editor for Vice, was deep in an investigation of the law firm Mossack Fonseca.

Tabloid news outlets are calling him the Russian Rambo. Alexander Prokhorenko was a Russian special forces soldier who died in Syria on March 19. It’s being reported that he called in an airstrike on his own position as it was being overrun by ISIS fighters. But how true is the story?

The Soulbury Stone has rested in the middle of a road in the small town of Soulbury, England for 11,000 years. And if residents have their way, it will sit there for eternity.

Iraq's largest dam was built in the 1980s under Saddam. Now US officials warn it's in danger of failing.

If you want to upset French language purists, learn to speak Chiac. It's a dialect of Acadian French spoken in New Brunswick that borrows liberally from English. Even as other North American dialects and languages are vanishing, Chiac seems to be sticking around.

How over-engaging your pre-frontal cortex can lead to a creative block.

Every election season, politicians, pollsters and media talk about "the Latino vote." But that's not exactly right.

They've been called "the Panama Papers." That's because Mossack Fonseca, the financial firm that helped thousands of clients avoid taxes and launder money is based in Panama. So what makes Panama the perfect spot for firms like these to operate?

Survivors of Boko Haram's 'rape camps' arrive home to accusations and suspicion.

Leaked documents show that close friends of Vladimir Putin own multiple companies in offshore tax havens worth billions of dollars. One such friend is a famous cellist, a guy who once ran with Putin on the streets when they were teenagers.

The resignation came after a huge protest, as Icelanders felt betrayed after his cheerleading of the Icelandic economy.

Two researchers who interviewed Syrian ISIS defectors say many of them joined up for a job and food — not because of ideology.