Ecuadorians head to the polls this Sunday, in one of the most hotly contested elections in decades. Thirty-seven-year-old ...

Food anthropologist and Nigerian native Ozoz Sokoh is out with a cookbook that's being hailed as the first comprehensive ...

Security is the main issue on the minds of Ecuadorians as they go to the polls in the presidential runoff election on Sunday. Leftist Luisa González is facing off against conservative president Daniel ...

Anoush Froundjian grew up attending Armenian school on weekends, in the 1990s. But at her American school, on weekdays, she worried that her cultural heritage was a social liability. That all changed ...

The arrival of white storks in Europe has long heralded the beginning of spring. But ornithologists believe human driven climate change is making the birds arrive earlier. And some storks have stopped ...

As Jews around the world prepare for feasts known as seders commemorating the biblical exodus from slavery, there’s a whole list of provisions people are busy gathering to bring the traditions to life ...

Pedro Sanchez had planned his state visit to Beijing before the Trump administration’s tariffs upended the global economy. But now, there’s more on the line than a bilateral trade agreement. The World ...

Diplomats at the United Nations have agreed on a new plan to charge shipping companies a carbon tax. The global economy relies on shipping, but the industry is powered almost entirely by fossil fuels.

It’s the largest and most-intricate map to date of the neural activity and connections in a mammal’s brain. Scientists used AI to track the equivalent of 4,000 kilometers of neural cables packed into ...

For the past decade or so there’s been a growing trend in Iran. Historic homes and caravanserai are being turned into boutique hotels, restaurants and cafes. In most cases, investors pay for ...

Journalist Sarah Allely was knocked off her bike by a wrong-way driver in 2015. The experience left her with a traumatic ...

In February, the US deported nearly 300 asylum seekers to Panama. Most of the deportees had come to the US not from Panama, but from Africa, Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Asia, in many cases ...