Several thousand US troops are leaving their remaining bases in Iraq by the end of the day tomorrow. US soldiers have been ...

Several thousand US troops are pulling up stakes in Iraq, leaving their remaining bases by the end of the day tomorrow. US ...

A classically trained cellist in the Midwest finds new inspiration in the music of her youth, from Turkish folk tunes to funk.

The Moscow Times and TV Rain are two of the most prominent independent Russian newsrooms in exile. After being forced to ...

Spain took the coastal city of Melilla by force and acquired Ceuta by treaty. Both events took place centuries ago — and both ...

Dismissed in Taiwan as simply propaganda, the Chinese television show “Jiaofeng,” or “Long Watch,” has proved a sensation ...

What appears to be a copper shark has gotten stuck in a South Korean canal. Experts say the shark probably chased prey into ...

Brazil’s high-stakes presidential election is less than a week away, and a crisis is unraveling at the country’s Supreme Court, with a corruption scandal causing justices to trade insults and cancel ...

A new database holds close to 4 million records of people enslaved in British colonies from the Caribbean to South Africa ...

More than 30 people have been reported killed in a series of at least four separate mass shootings that have taken place in South Africa over the past week. The World’s Host Aaron Schachter learned ...

British authorities are investigating whether a foreign state was involved in an apparent plot to attack an airbase used by the US military. Five masked men were arrested near an RAF base in England ...

The right of the dead to be buried is a theme so ancient that Sophocles’ heroine Antigone gave her fictional life for it ...