Former International Criminal Court judge Navi Pillay is the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. Also, a look at ...

Czechs went to the polls today. It’s the first of two days of voting to elect local representatives and fill one-third of senate seats. More than 8 million Czechs are eligible to vote. So are 237,000 ...

Mexico is bringing back the bison — also elk and prairie dogs. It’s part of an effort to re-wild a massive swath of land in the state of Sonora, along the US-Mexico border. A binational nonprofit is ...

Workers building a vast new US consulate in Milan, Italy, got a big pay day this week. More than 60 laborers, mostly from ...

Nine months after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces, protests are surging across Venezuela. People are taking to the streets over blackouts, low wages, political prisoners and ...

The Canadian government is preparing to destroy the testimonies given by tens of thousands of First Nations people about the ...

Germany has a new roadmap for its transition away from fossil fuels. It sets a deadline of 2045 and moves up the target to ...

Acclaimed poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature today. The work of the genre-bending writer includes prose and essays that lean heavily into classical ...

For the first time in history, the World Bank has completely rejected the findings of its internal watchdog, prompting the ...

Nine months after former President Nicolás Maduro was captured by US forces, protests are surging across Venezuela. People ...

Bissau’s most important songwriters was Jose Carlos Schwarz. His politically-charged songs helped the country win its 11-year independence war against Portugal in 1974. A group of musicians from the ...

The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim, the international president of the group Doctors Without ...