Comedians in Syria see a new moment for their art form. With the regime that stifled dissent under former President Bashar al ...

This year marks a half-century since the end of the Vietnam War. A well-known memorial in Washington, DC, pays tribute to the ...

During the 13-year civil war in Syria, the forces loyal to ousted President Bashar al-Assad carried out some of the most ...

The clash between the Trump administration and Voice of America continues. In March, an executive order was issued to ...

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US-based firm that helped design and manage an aid initiative to deliver food to ...

The Dutch Election Commission has to schedule new elections, after far-right politician Geert Wilders pulled his ministers from the four-party governing coalition. Opposition leaders in parliament ...

The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a US-based firm that helped design and manage an aid initiative to deliver food to Palestinians in Gaza in areas controlled by the Israeli military, has withdrawn ...

Images of candles, flowers or a single banana in front of four apples in a line. These are among the images that are being erased from the internet in China today. That’s because it’s June 4, and also ...

According to recent research, the semicolon has declined in use in British books by 50%. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explores why the misunderstood punctuation mark is under threat.

Developers of genetically modified seeds hope to boost production and prevent crop diseases in countries hit the hardest by climate change. But farmers on the ground in Kenya have big concerns. The ...

Mexico’s former president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, used his Morena party’s majority to shove through reforms to make all judges in Mexico elected, instead of appointed. Now, current President ...

The city of Cologne, Germany, evacuated more than 20,000 people from its city center, after three unexploded bombs from World War II were found. That’s the largest evacuation the city has seen since ...