In many ways, Koichi Kitabatake is just like any other runner preparing for Sunday’s New York City Marathon: He’s nervous for the big race but plans to draw energy from crowds of spectators to keep ...

The West African nation of Mali, one of the countries comprising the Sahel region to the south of the Sahara Desert, has been fighting extremists for years. But a coalition of al-Qaeda and ISIS ...

A few thousand people have arrived at the Tawila refugee camp in Sudan, after escaping harrowing violence in the RSF-controlled city of el-Fasher, many of them unaccompanied children. Also, ...

Letters written on Aug. 15, 1916, by two Australian soldiers serving in France during World War I have been discovered more than a century later. One of the letter-writers survived the war; the other ...

Along Greenland’s coastline, small villages became ghost towns decades ago after the Danish government relocated their ...

Some Halloween costumes transform ordinary people into fantasy characters. But a social media trend in Japan has people trying instead to capture mundane situations from everyday life. So, instead of ...

Raston, the host of the “Click Here” podcast, reports on how an Uyghur kindergarten in western China was shut down.

Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with acclaimed novelist Ha Jin about his new book, “Looking for Tank Man: A Novel" in The World’s ...

Today in Jamaica, people are picking up the pieces after the strongest storm seen on Earth — and the strongest hurricane in ...

Last week, several Nobel laureates and high-profile celebrities cautioned that the threat of artificial intelligence is real, ...

US President Donald Trump met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, today. Both leaders sounded optimistic about cooling trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies. Also, in Rio de ...

Fasher, a town in Darfur that has been under a grueling siege for more than 500 days. Also, Hurricane Melissa makes landfall ...