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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This week marks three decades since the massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically killed by Serb forces. It was the worst atrocity on ...

The Winnipeg Folk Festival is celebrating its 50th anniversary this weekend. The annual music festival started out as part of the city’s centennial festivities. But founder Mitch Podolak was planning ...

In Australia, a snake sighting recently grounded a domestic flight from Melbourne to Brisbane. Unlike the 2006 movie “Snakes on a Plane,” this particular snake was only a foot long and not venomous.

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