What is it like to face climate change where you live? The World spoke to people from all over the globe at the recent Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to learn how climate change was impacting them, and what they were doing about it.
Terrorism is disproportionately concentrated in just a few places in the world. Last year, more than 75 percent of terrorist attacks took place in 10 countries.
Millions of people around the world took to the streets this weekend to proclaim that women's rights are human rights. We spoke to some marchers in D.C. about why they were there.
In the former Soviet state of Georgia is a sprawling open-air hardware store called the Eliava. Vendors there sell building materials, tools and machinery — much of it from Soviet days and Russian-made.
From fizzwiggler to zozimus! Test your Roald Dahl knowledge with this game.
Even if you’ve followed every gaffe, accusation and ridiculous claim, are you really clear on the positions of the two main presidential candidates? Find out, with our nine-question quiz on the money matters at stake in 2016.
There are 1.7 million internally displaced people, according to the Ukrainian government. But international organizations think the true number could be higher. There is now a government ministry to handle the displacement crisis, but the task of helping some groups is huge. One group in particular need is those whom are HIV positive where access to anti-retroviral medications is particularly difficult.
There were protests for electoral reforms, but they weren't going on in this high school when police shot tear gas inside.
President Barack Obama is visiting Hiroshima, Japan, the first city to experience the effects of an atomic bomb. Put yourself into the shoes of those who suffered from the atomic bomb attacks in Japan: What if the Hiroshima atomic bomb hit your hometown?
Thousands of people were instantly killed after the US dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. About 140,000 would die from complications as a result of the bombing by the end of the year. Here is a selection of historical images on the ground in Hiroshima after the bomb was dropped.
Can Iranian women watch a soccer match in a stadium together with their male friends?