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 ...

Waves of jet-powered drones struck the National Academy of Sciences as well as a hospital in Kyiv today. Elsewhere, Russian ...

Electronic waste, or e-waste, is a growing problem. Much of it ends up in Ghana and Nigeria, where informal recycling ...

Teenagers across Latin America are turning an internet joke into a real-world competition. In “aura battles,” participants ...

The Mighty Sparrow, a musician known as the king of calypso, has died. Sparrow helped preserve and popularize the music of ...

Since late August, a plane has flown once a week from Louisiana, carrying Haitians — who had been living in the US under ...

US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping concluded a three-day state visit with a two-month extension of their ...

The US government says the war with Iran has cost about $44 billion so far. But experts say that figure captures only part of ...