More than 30,000 people in Canada have been evacuated due to wildfires, and millions of acres have burned — and it's only the ...

First Nations Chiefs criticized the Canadian government's initial response to the wildfires, which have forced thousands of ...

The al-Kharrat family in Syria has kept the tradition of Sema, or the whirling dervishes, alive for decades. Under the Assad regime, they faced restrictions on traveling abroad to participate in ...

Date crumble, rosewater-scented halva, tres leches cake. In a new memoir by imprisoned Iranian activist Sepideh Gholian, each recipe is a story for a fellow prisoner abused by the government. Newly ...

Iranian truck drivers have been protesting for better pay and benefits. The action has seen drivers park their vehicles and refuse cargo deliveries in multiple provinces, disrupting transportation and ...

Carlos Alcaraz defeated Jannik Sinner in the longest-ever men’s singles final in Paris on Sunday. Their match lasted 5 hours and 29 minutes, with Alcaraz sweeping the final three sets after losing the ...

Wu Wei plays an ancient Chinese instrument with thousands of years of tradition that’s been “updated” for a modern audience. It’s called the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ. Reporter Caroline Feraday ...

Say you’re a performer swept up in a whirlwind romance with a fellow puppeteer, and he leaves on an extended trip to go to a puppetry festival on another continent. Impulsively, you decide to surprise ...

Botswana’s state-owned diamond mining partnership with De Beers, called Debswana, has announced it’s halting operations at some of its mines. Debswana also says that revenues have dropped 50% amid an ...

As world leaders gather in the city of Nice in France this week for the UN Ocean conference, experts are raising concerns about the acidification of the high seas — a phenomenon that is having a ...

Maybe Happy Ending” -— about decommissioned robots falling in love — took home the Tony award for best musical on Sunday night. The show had a six-season run in South Korea and opened on Broadway last ...

When a young attacker drew a gun at a campaign rally and tried to shoot conservative Colombian politician and Sen. Miguel Uribe Turbay, the deed was captured on video. So was that assailant’s effort ...