Colleges abroad are stepping in to help international students at US campuses who are caught up in political havoc as the ...

Thor Pedersen, a former UN soldier originally from Denmark, went on a decade-long adventure that took him to every country in the world, but never took a flight on an airplane. By train, bus, boat and ...

On the Pacific island nation of Tuvalu, more than a third of the population — out of about 10,000 — has applied for a chance to win a special climate change visa for Australia. The first-of-its kind ...

The Atacama Desert in Chile is home to a massive, and growing, mountain of discarded clothes and textiles. The items are remnants of secondhand clothes imported into the country to resell. To address ...

Israel bombed Evin prison in Tehran, long seen as a symbol of the Iranian government’s repression. The facility has housed political prisoners, students, and activists for decades. Israeli officials ...

NBA Draft organizers didn’t give Yang Hansen a prime seat at this week’s Draft event in Brooklyn, New York. So, it came as a huge surprise when the Chinese center was picked 16th in the first round.

In Syria, tens of thousands of people with connections to ISIS have been detained for years in sprawling camps. The country’s transitional government is now trying to clear those camps by sending ...

Venice is the site of the Bezos nuptials — as Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and one of the world’s richest men, marries Lauren Sánchez, a journalist, entrepreneur and astronaut. Venetians, themselves, ...

Lalo Schifrin, the widely celebrated Argentine American film score composer, died yesterday at the age of 93. Schifrin was most well known for penning the “Mission: Impossible” theme music. But his ...

Over the last several months, international students at US campuses have found themselves caught up in political havoc. The Trump administration has announced enhanced scrutiny of student visa ...

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are set to sign a peace deal brokered by the Trump administration in Washington today. Insurgent group M23 currently occupies areas of eastern DRC. Critics of ...

We tend to think of conversation as speech, but obviously listening is also a crucial part of every conversation — in theory, ...