Over the weekend, residents of Brisbane, Australia, were bracing for the impact of Tropical Cyclone Alfred. The storm was ...

Sitting at 12,000 feet above sea level, Bolivia’s La Paz has the highest altitude of any administrative capital of any ...

Approximately a thousand people are estimated to have been killed in Syria’s coastal region after violence that followed an ...

Scam Factories, a special series from The Conversation Weekly, takes you inside Southeast Asia’s brutal scamming compounds. The Conversation’s UK podcast looked at how these compounds, hidden in plain ...

Today, a cargo ship ran into a tanker that was carrying fuel for the US military. All crew members survived, but one has been hospitalized. Potential environmental damage is still being assessed, ...

Athol Fugard worked with Black actors to create plays about life under apartheid in South Africa, often drawing from small personal moments, then telescoping them into wider observations of society.

Suitcase Stories is an 8-year-old program in the Boston area, meant to give immigrants a chance to share their journeys with a larger community. But recently, three foreign-born storytellers scheduled ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is estimating that approximately a thousand people have been killed in major violence in Syria’s coastal region. The violence began after an attack on ...

Extreme-right candidate Calin Georgescu stunned many in Romania when he won the first round of a presidential vote in November. This weekend, he was barred from participating in May’s presidential ...

Canada’s new leader, Mark Carney, has led the central banks of two separate countries through financial crises. As prime minister of Canada, he’ll be putting his fiscal policy bona fides to the test ...

She convinced US President Donald Trump to delay tariffs twice, and Trump recently praised her as a “marvelous woman”. Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum is one of the few world leaders who have ...

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