Typhoon Bavi, which hit Guam and surrounding islands earlier this week, is on its way toward Taiwan, several Japanese islands ...

This week, Hamas announced that it is stepping back from governing Gaza and is ready to hand day-to-day operations to a ...

A massive wildfire is raging in southern Spain. Authorities in the region of Almería say at least twelve people have been ...

After nearly a week of ceremonies in Iran and Iraq, the body of former Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is being ...

Paul Salopek is a National Geographic Explorer walking from Ethiopia to South America on foot. But it’s also a journalism job ...

The death of a newlywed woman in Delhi last weekend is among a string of cases this year rekindling public discussion in ...

Health workers on the frontline of the Ebola outbreak are on strike. Complaints include a lack of protective equipment and ...

We listen to a track from Marlon Williams. She’s New Zealand’s hottest Māori singer right now, and she’s accompanied on the ...

Reading Lolita in Tehran, the best-selling memoir by Azar Nafisi, came out in 2003. It told the story of how Nafisi and seven ...

In Uganda, scientists have found a new use for catnip: mosquito repellent. A new study presented at the Society for ...

After Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes, many international rescue teams have left as the window for finding survivors narrows.

For the past four years, Matariki, the Māori New Year, has been an official holiday in New Zealand. Māori poet Tayi Tibble ...