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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

The Marching Band” is a French comedy-drama about two long-lost brothers: one a famous conductor, the other a blue-collar ...

The UK is planning to call a Parliamentary Select Committee hearing to ask why Britain always seems to do so badly in the ...