World

In Svalbard, above the Arctic Circle, you can't be born and you can't be buried, but you can find renewal in the dark of winter.

Activists, union organizers and dissidents are being killed. Why isn't the government doing more to protect them?

In a dispute captivating a country of workaholics, Mitoshi Matsumoto says the company is threatening to rescind his franchise after he complained about draconian work hours.

Who we live with depends on our location, religion and ethnicity.

Afghanistan's highways are prime killing fields, with travelers dying in roadside bombings, ambushes and airstrikes.

A typhoon that lashed the central Philippines on Christmas Day has killed at least 16 people and caused damage to homes and tourist areas.

After being destroyed in World War II, Rovaniemi, Finland, successfully reinvented itself as the capital of Christmas.

Issa Kassisieh has turned his centuries-old family home into a Christmas wonderland.

Carolyn Kormann reports from Okuma and Fukushima, Japan, on the aftermath of the March, 2011, nuclear meltdown at the Daiichi power plant and how residents of the area have adapted to radiation levels.

As polar and mountain regions have warmed, the extent of sea and land ice has declined.

The suspected longest walking route on Earth is 14,000 miles from South Africa to extreme north Russia. You'd need three years to complete the trip.

Pakistani players seemingly came out of nowhere to dominate the classic fighting game this year.

A photojournalist journeys to the Sahara-Sahel desert of remote northern Africa to catalogue the state of emergency on the ground.

After two years of testing, a new futuristic train that runs on virtual tracks was launched for the first time in Yibin, in the province of Sichuan, China. Instead of steel tracks, these tram-bus-hybrid run over tracks painted on the asphalt in white.

The low-lying country has centuries of experience managing water. Now climate change is threatening to flood it completely.

Watching booms and busts in Madagascar, the world's primary source of natural vanilla.

As Japan's population shrinks and ages, rural areas are emptying out. In one childless village, two dozen adults compensate for the absence with the company of hundreds of giant handmade dolls.

Former Pakistan President and military ruler Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death in absentia for high treason following a six-year legal case.

In New Dehli, the smog is so severe that drivers frequently get into traffic accidents. The city has always suffered from air pollution, but here's the reason why things have become so much worse in the past decade.

There's an argument to be made that France's natural geography make for some of the best borders. Well, except for that one giant chink in the armor.

"They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster," said the hit man.

Scrawls on the streets of Hong Kong provide a crash course in the memes, messages and demands of the pro-democracy movement

A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

What countries are best represented in US cuisine?

Myanmar's leader says there is no proof its army had "genocidal intent" against Rohingya Muslims.

One woman leads the way in stopping snakebite from killing and mutilating thousands in Indonesia. Meet Maha, the snakebite doctor.

For days after his FBI interrogation, former US Army scientist Wei Su wondered: Where had the microphone been?

A paramedic who saved tourists says conditions were like something from "the Chernobyl mini-series."

From #MeToo and Black Lives Matter to the Arab Spring and Hong Kong protests, here are the tremendous moments in activism that have defined this past decade.

Google Maps looks different based on your location due to disputed borders and other complicated diplomatic issues.

"I WROTE YOU A THREE-PAGE LETTER CONTAINING SOME OF MY THOUGHTS," the man who murdered Jo Cox told me, replying to a letter I had sent to him in prison. His note was short, just half a side of A4 paper, and there was no sign of the other three pages he mentioned.

Cold War bunkers are dotted all over London, secretive locations that were intended to keep the arms of government moving in a worst case Cold War scenario.

Or has it always been like this and I just didn't know it?

You never know what's going to happen when you meet your constituents.

The harrowing documentary "Midnight Family" examines the country's broken healthcare system and corrupt law enforcement.

As climate change brings closer the possibility of an Arctic Ocean free of summer sea ice, scientists are urgently trying to understand the high north before it changes for good.

Mr Trump accuses the French leader of insulting remarks for suggesting the bloc was "brain dead".

In the 1980s, during the Iran-Iraq War, Saddam Hussein became obsessed with the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar. He saw himself as a modern reincarnation of Nebuchadnezzar, and to prove it, he spent millions building a massive reconstruction of Babylon.

What it was like to shop in a supermarket in the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s.

Before you recoil at the thought of an airport holiday, let me explain. This is no ordinary airport. It's Singapore's Changi: part theme park, part futuristic pleasure dome

It was the most dramatic attack on Iranian interests in Iraq since protests began on Oct 1.

For most of history, they marked sovereignty or self-determination. Now their purpose seems to have changed.

We could have chosen to have any location be the center of our world maps — how did it come to be Britain?

Tracing the historical trajectory that led to Paris being one of the costliest cities around the world.

Hong Kong's pro-democracy opposition won a stunning landslide victory in weekend local elections in a clear rebuke to city leader Carrie Lam over her handling of violent protests.

The group has lost its territory and its leader. But it has survived before and can do it again.

A design journalist attending a sustainability-minded architecture fair reflects on her experience traveling from London to Oslo by train instead of a plane.

For 40 years, journalists chronicled the eccentric royal family of Oudh, deposed aristocrats who lived in a ruined palace in the Indian capital. It was a tragic, astonishing story. But was it true?

The Israeli prime minister has denied any wrongdoing and said he is the victim of a politically orchestrated "witch hunt."

Here's what Berlin looked like two months after the ending of World War II.

Exploring Australia's relationship with China and comparing it to the United States's, both historically and current.

When the US entered Afghanistan, local DJs were hired to help with the war effort. And when the American military pulled out, they abandoned those voices, leaving many of them for dead.

Scandinavia's Sami have been herding reindeer for generations. Then the miners arrived. The Sami had never been protesters. Until now.

For many of the protests taking place around the world, the lack of an appointed leader is deliberate.

Before they sit down for a very serious interview, there are some things on the agenda that have to be done. Singing in the car is one of them. Colbert trying to break into Arden's phone is another.

Timothy Weeks and Kevin King have spent more than three years in captivity.

Move upends decades of US policy; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the decision simply recognizes "the reality on the ground."

We're going to guess that road safety was not the first among their concerns.

Seven hundred pages of leaked documents reveal how Iranian spies have infiltrated every aspect of Iraqi political life.

India's T-Series built an online empire from Bollywood. Now it has to survive Netflix.