Azm, an archaeologist and former professor at Damascus University, left Syria with his family in 2006. He recently returned ...

In Chinese-controlled Tibet, rescue workers are still digging through rubble after a powerful earthquake near Mount Everest.

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Every year, in the Costa Rican village of Boruca, men dress in garish masks and costumes to reenact their ancestors’ battle against colonizers 500 years ago. In the ritual, Spaniards, are depicted as ...

Je suis Charlie Hebdo” — that was the rallying cry in defense of free speech after an attack on the offices of a French satirical magazine of the same name. Gunmen sought retaliation after a cartoon ...

Jean-Marie Le Pen, the father of modern far-right politics in France, died on Tuesday at the age of 96. Le Pen was on the political scene for more than 50 years stoking xenophobia, antisemitism, and ...

Mauro Morandi, the sole caretaker of a Mediterranean island off Sardinia for over three decades, has died at age 85. Known as “Italy’s Robinson Crusoe,” Morandi chronicled his life alone on the pink ...

Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a public announcement — sharing his plan to resign following a massive decline in ...

Over the past week, the rebel group known as M23 has gained ground in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Host Carolyn Beeler discusses the significance of those advances with ...

Azm, an archaeologist and former professor at Damascus University, left Syria with his family in 2006. He recently returned to witness firsthand the celebrations and struggles that followed the abrupt ...

A vigilante citizen group says its making up for government inaction by using sledgehammers to “liberate” trees sinking from cement sidewalks. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports from Mexico City.

There were cheers in the air and on the runway on Tuesday when the first international commercial flight landed in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime. One passenger shares the joy he experienced ...