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Supporters of Nigerian presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari celebrate his election victory on March 31, 2015. Buhari is the first Nigerian to peacefully oust a sitting president under the country's democratic system.
Global Politics
Goodnight for Goodluck: Nigeria’s president concedes election defeat
Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now is Ayaan Hirsi Ali's new book.
Books
‘Anyone in Islam who puts question marks on theology gets ostracized, gets silenced, gets killed’
Flying Kites, Montmartre, 1906 | William James Glackens
Arts
What spring looks like through the eyes of artists
Ford Motor Co. unveils the Lincoln Continental concept car at an event ahead of the New York International Auto Show in New York on March 30, 2015. Ford Motor Co will resurrect the Lincoln Continental as its top-of-the line luxury sedan, betting the class
Business
Why are GM and Ford going retro? Chinese buyers want grandpa’s car.
A facsimile of a page from Bald's Leechbook
Medicine
A deadly modern disease may have an unexpected ancient cure
Just in time for Passover, Ben and Jerry's is offering vanilla ice cream with a swirl of charoset straight from the seder table.
Food
Forget Cherry Garcia. How about Ben and Jerry’s Passover ice cream?
A young refugee at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria.
Conflict
This picture will break your heart
An image of The Winstons taken from a 1969 edition of Billboard magazine.
Music
The six-second drum solo that has been used a thousand times
South Africa's Trevor Noah will be the new host of "The Daily Show," the popular Comedy Central show currently hosted by Jon Stewart.
Culture
Joyous South Africans pop champagne to celebrate Trevor Noah’s taking over for Jon Stewart
Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile, shown under construction in March of 2014. Egypt claims most of the water in the 4,000 mile-long river that it shares with 10 other countries, and fears the $4.7 billion Renaissance dam will reduce the wa
Environment
A deal on Africa’s biggest dam eases tensions on the Nile
Smoke rises from an arms depot at the Jabal Hadeed military compound in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on March 28, 2015.
Conflict
Why isn’t America evacuating its citizens in Yemen?
Purvi Patel was sentenced March 30, 2015 for feticide and child neglect.
Justice
Purvi Patel faces 20 years in prison for feticide and child neglect
US Secretary of State John Kerry waits with others before a meeting with P5+1, European Union and Iranian officials in Lausanne, Switzerland, on March 30, 2015.
Global Politics
Iran nuclear talks go down to the wire, but no one knows what deal may emerge
Australian singer Conrad Sewell performs at the Spotify House at SXSW 2015.
Music
We traveled to SXSW for the geeks at Interactive, but music grabbed a spotlight
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Global Politics
‘I am strong — I am not a victim,’ says this Turkish ‘co­-mayor’
Music
An Irish priest wows wedding guests with his version of ‘Hallelujah.’ Now he has a record contract.
Singer Ray Davies of The Kinks performs during the 2012 Pre-Grammy Gala & Salute to Industry Icons in 2012.
Music
You Really Got Me: The Kinks, a girlfriend and a shady character
Abdirizak Bihi, who directs the Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center in Minnesota, testifies at a congressional hearing on radicalization in Washington. Bihi's nephew left Minnesota to fight with al-Shabab in 2008.
Conflict
In Minnesota, ISIS may be building on the recruiting networks once used by other terror groups
Stromae poster on a wall in Austin, Texas.
Music
This musician has a half-billion video views. So who the hell is he?
Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan warned against violence ahead of Saturday's presidential election.
Global Politics
Nigeria’s choices for president: a former military ruler or a corrupt incumbent
Syrian activist Karam Al Hamad at work. Hamad is currently waiting for permission to leave Turkey to travel to the US for a fellowship.
Conflict
After a year of torture in Syrian jail, an activist finally makes it to the US
The bodies of thousands of Londoners, including plague victims, lie in the Bedlam Burial Ground.
Health
Uncovering the plague pit beneath London’s streets
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Health
How Filipino moms endure a maternity ward that’s like ‘a blaring supermarket deli counter’
A traffic sign warning of low flying aircraft stands near to LSC Westerwald flight club, where Germanwings co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had been a member.
Justice
After the Germanwings crash, airline pilots are seen as possible threats
A Syrian child who lost both of her parents attends a gathering organized by a charity for orphans in Douma, near Damascus.
Justice
Hope is all but gone in Syria, but some in the country still work for change
Steven and Mackenzie Loy at the start of the 2013 Boston Marathon. She was stopped a mile short of the finish line after the race was bombed.
Sports
Once thwarted by the Boston bombings, this marathoner prepares for the Paris Marathon post-Charlie Hebdo
A manufactured story in Eastern Ukraine. The billboard reads, "We won't forget, we won't forgive," but Antelava says the photo of the girl has been faked.
Conflict
Along Ukraine’s ceasefire line, war is ‘crowdfunded’
A man believed to be Bowe Bergdahl is pictured in a frame grab from a video released by the Taliban. The image was released by IntelCenter on Dec. 8, 2010.
Justice
From the Revolution to Bowe Bergdahl, desertion has a long history in the US
People search for survivors under the rubble of houses destroyed by an air strike near the Sanaa airport on March 26, 2015.
Conflict
Yemen’s ‘turf battle’ just got a lot bigger — and a lot more dangerous
North Korean defector Shin Dong-hyuk accepted that changing parts of his story had tarnished the credibility of other defectors from the country.
Justice
If North Korea is a land of lies, where does the truth begin?
Houthi fighters ride in a truck on a street leading to the Republican Palace in Sana'a, Yemen, on January 20, 2015.
Conflict
Houthis in Yemen: Who are they and why is everybody out to get them?
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Economics
How returning home to Mexico gets complicated after years in the US
A teddy bear wearing a shirt with the word "flight attendant" is placed between flowers and candles outside Germanwings headquarters at the Cologne Bonn airport on March 25, 2015.
Technology
A crash in Europe lays bare some of aviation’s myths
A man offers his fish for sale at a central fish market in Athens, Greece.
Environment
Seven questions you should ask to try to make sure your fish wasn’t caught by slaves
Luchador Perro Aguayo Jr. lays motionless on the mat during the match in which he died.
Sports
‘They didn’t just see a wrestler die, they watched a superhero die’
Edwin Ochienowho, known as DJ Edu, recently traveled across Africa for BBC project to find the best nightclub on the continent.
Culture
DJ Edu searches for Africa’s best nightclub
White roses adorn the King Richard III statue at Leicester Cathedral in central England.
Culture
Five centuries after his death, Richard III finally gets a royal send-off
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Lifestyle
Before Barack Obama: The young Michelle Obama
Songhoy Blues
Music
Mali’s Songhoy Blues are making music in exile
In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014 photo, Thai and Burmese fishing boat workers sit inside a cell at the compound of a fishing company in Benjina, Indonesia. The imprisoned men were considered slaves who might run away. They said they lived on a few bites of
Economics
The seafood you eat may have been caught by slaves
Wounded Palestinian Rawya abu Jom’a.
Media
Heidi Levine’s war photos from Gaza keep a colleague’s memory alive
Health
Why 21st-century anti-vaxxers have nothing on their 18th-century counterparts
Business-minded immigrants often turn to gardening work because the start-up costs are relatively modest — namely the price of the truck and the gardening equipment.
Business
California’s gardens tell an immigrant story
Interviewing people in Guinea in December "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real virus. "BBC correspondent Tulip Mazumdar conducts an interview in Guinea in December 2014. "They were telling me they didn’t believe Ebola was a real vir
Health
Ebola veterans warn that vigilance is still needed as case numbers drop
Celeste Oliva starred in The Nora Theatre Company's production of "Grounded."
Arts
A playwright turns drones into drama
Kenya and China have developed a closer economic relationship in recent years. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (left) shakes hands with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta in May 2014.
Business
‘No Africans’ policy at Chinese restaurant in Kenya prompts arrest, outrage
Major General Qassem Suleimani, who heads the Quds Brigade in Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
Conflict
Meet the most powerful man in the Middle East you’ve probably never heard of
Iran nuclear talks
Global Politics
Israel and the US are in a game of spy vs. spy
Israeli self-propelled artillery ready for action, near the border with Syria in the Golan Heights. Picture taken Jan 27th 2015.
Conflict
Hezbollah’s gains in Syria have triggered concerns in Israel
Did the Nazis prepare this Argentine hideout during the 1940s as a place to flee?
Science
A remote, forgotten Nazi hideout? Archaeologists shine light on Argentine history.
A man dances during celebrations for Afghan New Year, or Newroz, in Kabul on March 21, 2015.
Conflict
Why an American and an Afghan are optimistic about Afghanistan’s future
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Belief
How centuries-old Sabbath laws impact the modern world
Lee Kuan Yew (L) shakes hands with China's President Hu Jintao (R) at the Istana presidential palace in Singapore on November 11, 2009.
Global Politics
Lee Kuan Yew built modern Singapore, but he also changed China
Jerry Yellin, 91, speaking on Iwo Jima, 70 years after the battle
Conflict
A veteran of Iwo Jima ponders if the fight was worth it
Crumpled posters at the headquarters of the center-left Zionist Union, a day after losing to incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel's elections.
Global Politics
Their election hopes crumpled, the young Israeli left asks: ‘Should we stay?’
Former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew died on Monday, March 23, at the age of 91. He is credited for turning Singapore into an economic and educational success story.
Global Politics
Singapore’s controversial founding father dies at age 91
Lifehunters, a digital production company in Amsterdam, carries an Ikea poster on an easel into the Museum of Modern art in Arnhem to see what art critics think of it.
Arts
An Ikea-sponsored prank shows the art world is just like Ikea wants you to think it is
Health
‘I didn’t think I’d be able to get pregnant the first time I had sex’
Saudi Arabia's picture of King Abdullah Economic City in 20 years
Business
Saudi Arabia plans a $100 billion mega-city to help end its oil dependence
The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury on Thursday saw the remains of a pressure-cooker bomb that prosecutors say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev hurled at police during a gunfight four days after the bombing as well as jihadist files recovered from his laptop.
Justice
US prosecutors portray Boston Marathon bombing suspect as a radical extremist