Tale of a Turkish ferry: A day working on Istanbul’s 175-year-old transport system

A glimpse into the lives of northern Nigeria’s craftsmen

Spain taps into immigrant and refugee communities to fill vacant shepherding jobs

Anti-immigrant sentiment rises in South Africa

Czech Republic bans communist symbols in May Day parades

From pensions to pastries: Vienna café supports elderly workers

Cambodia’s concrete ‘reefs’ thwart trawling and create new homes for marine life

Foreign laborers protest working conditions and unfair pay for renovating Barça football stadium

Ireland hopes to make a program giving artists a stable income permanent

Artisans in Paris revive the old art of handpainted signs

Traditional fishermen limit forays into the Caribbean over fear of US strikes

Help wanted: Germany hires its next generation of workers from abroad

Indians gravitate toward different opportunities as the US hikes visa fees for skilled foreign workers

Freeing victims from criminal enclaves in Myanmar, one TikTok at a time

The street call that became Mexico City’s soundtrack

Spain’s new eviction law may not keep squatters out

Portugal tells undocumented migrants to leave or be deported

Nearly 3 million immigrants got amnesty under Reagan. Some of them still work on Washington state farms.

As Denmark tears down homes in ‘non-Western’ areas to force assimilation, residents fight back in court

Costa Rican coffee farms struggle with labor shortages because of immigration restrictions

They were part of Afghanistan’s first-ever all-female flight. Then their lives were turned upside down.

Russia is offering higher pay to lure more military recruits

Traders in Ghana face uncertain future after world’s largest secondhand clothing hub razed in fire

Is retirement officially dead in Japan?

India’s Diamond City is reeling from the war in Ukraine

Meet the Jamaicans who harvest the Champlain Valley’s apples

American students consider work opportunities abroad after graduation

Paraguay’s soy bonanza leaves small farmers in the cold

Nearly half of Venezuelans are considering leaving the country in the coming months, poll says

The rocky road to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival

The enduring harvest of the ‘Tears of Chios’

Motorcycle taxis are increasingly being driven by women in Uganda

Syrian refugees in Lebanon face growing restrictions and deportation

‘Dönerflation’: Outcry in Germany over rising cost of döner kebab

After decades of being overlooked, African art gets its moment

Nigeria’s low-income communities bear the brunt of faltering economy

A North Korean refugee offers a different view of his home country from the other side of the DMZ

‘I’ll go for the American dream’: After struggling to get legal status in Colombia, many Venezuelan migrants are heading to the US

‘We are helpless’: Protesting farmers in India pose challenges — and demands — to Modi

‘I have to work to help my family’: Child laborers in Raqqa face dangerous conditions

What rhymes with isosceles triangle? This French math teacher has the answer.

Oil refineries in northeastern Syria are sickening people and polluting the environment

The shadow of the United Fruit Company still reaches across the globe today

Virginia bill would give alternate licensing path to foreign doctors

‘No one is helping us’: Palestinians in West Bank barred from Israel face unemployment, financial insecurity

‘It’s a lose-lose situation’: Carbon ‘offset’ project in Cambodia accused of human rights violations

Venezuela’s public sector workers take on multiple side jobs just to get by

Cubans worry about inflation explosion after government austerity measures

New York City’s older Chinese American population faces increasing housing challenges, poverty

‘Birds are everywhere!’ Women bird guides in Uganda set a global example

‘Justice doesn’t exist here’: Uzbek farmers and cotton workers say abuse, exploitation continues despite reforms

‘We saw an immediate drop’: Jordan’s tourism industry is suffering amid the Israel-Hamas war

Saving Ukraine’s cultural heritage with a click

Zimbabwe’s stone sculptors struggle to keep carving

Russian American journalist detained in Russia

For ‘dinosaur music,’ prehistoric instruments set the tone

Microfinance was meant to help the world’s poor, but in Cambodia, it’s plunging people deeper into debt

Rural communities in the Amazon face a complex world of carbon credits

A new underground gig economy is booming in New York City as migrants wait for work permits

Formerly homeless American in Barcelona helps others get off the streets