The Israeli airstrikes on Iran have stopped — at least for now. But for many Iranians, the real struggle is just beginning: ...

"The Salt Path" is a best-selling memoir and major film. And now, an investigation by The Observer has revealed several of ...

Coordinated bombings tore through London’s transport network 20 years ago, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds. In the ...

Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

As migration from El Salvador to the US drops, a small but growing number of Salvadoran immigrants are now returning home ...

Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will be reborn after he dies, and that the Tibetan Buddhist ...

This week marks three decades since a massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically killed by Serb forces in 1995. Some survivors and ...

A new trend in Mexico is transforming flower deliveries into viral social media performances —complete with music, confetti and dramatic flair. What began as one man’s creative response to the ...

After decades of an insurgency against the Turkish government, members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party, known as the PKK, ceremonially laid down their arms at a ceremony in northern Iraq. The group’s ...

It was at music school in the United States that Alex Alvear really came to appreciate the different styles of music from his home country: Ecuador. He shared his story with Jared Bowen for “The ...

Thirty years after the genocide at Srebrenica, mass killings sadly still occur. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks to Martin Shaw, a professor at the University of Sussex in the UK, about the ...

Last month, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized a new saint: Olga Michael, who lived in the small ton of Kwethluk, Alaska, until her death in 1979. St. Olga is the first Yup’ik to be canonized in ...