How ambulance tricycles are saving lives in rural Ghana

Transportation

Access to ambulances is severely limited in parts of Ghana, something that can be especially hazardous for pregnant women trying to get to the nearest hospital. Now, a new startup aims to transform maternal health care in the country with a unique emergency vehicle tailored to the local terrain.

President Trump hints at compromise ahead of US-China trade talks

Portugal tells undocumented migrants to leave or be deported

Migration

‘Four Mothers’ examines motherhood across the globe

Books

Out of Eden Walk: Record-breaking heat in Japan is hurting rice farms

Out of Eden Walk

How tequila crossed the Mexican border and won over Americans

Lifestyle

As tequila tops global sales charts, a new book uncovers the spirit’s revolutionary roots and the family feuds that shaped its legacy, through the lens of tequila’s most prominent maker, Jose Cuervo. Americans have since helped save the liquor, which has become a billion-dollar industry — and a symbol of Mexican pride.

How Pope Francis’ legacy will influence the selection of the next pope 

Sacred Nation

A group of 133 Catholic cardinals from 71 different countries are convening on Wednesday for a secretive conclave that will end with the selection of a new pope. Vatican watchers are wondering whether the next pontiff will be a reform-minded modernist, like Pope Francis himself, or a conservative traditionalist, like many of Francis’ critics. Among the cardinals voting for a new pope, 80% were elevated by Francis. But that doesn’t mean they’re all like-minded.

The tug-of-war over an anti-Nazi pastor’s legacy

Global Politics

US Christian nationalists have adopted a leading pastor of the anti-Nazi resistance as a patron saint of faith-based politics, setting off a bitter, trans-Atlantic feud and the question, “What would Dietrich Bonhoeffer do?”

Norwegian city turns pipes into rivers to adapt to climate change

The Big Fix

Climate change is causing Bergen’s weather patterns to shift, bringing more rain and periods of more intense rain. But the city is now working to create nature-based solutions to tackle the excess volumes of water.

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to make a crash landing on Earth this week. But nobody knows where — yet.

A Soviet spacecraft is expected to come hurtling back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, however, it never got to its destination. Instead, it’s been circling Earth since 1972, and gradually descending.

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