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FIFA President Sepp Blatter
Justice
What do FIFA and the mafia have in common? RICO
A panel from the new graphic novel, "Mike's Place: A True Story of Love, Blues, and Terror in Tel Aviv."
Books
‘Mike’s Place’ is the gripping new novel of love, blues and terror in Tel Aviv
A bee approaches a peach blossom. Many of the more than 20,000 species of bee worldwide, including the well-known honey bee, are threatened by disease, habitat loss, and pesticides. President Obama's national pollinator plan would provide incentives for r
Environment
From the White House to Minnesota gardens, an effort to make more room for pollinators
Playwright Aizzah Fatima plays a character she calls a "hijabi feminist."
Arts
Sex, religion and politics collide in ‘Dirty Paki Lingerie’
STREET VIEW OF PRAGUE — The red dots are recordings taken from those locations. Aporee has the equivalent of 63 days worth of sound uploaded from all over the world.
Media
Here’s what a map of the world sounds like
Subeta Vimalarajah (center) with fellow anti-tampon tax activists.
Health
Life inside a giant tampon suit: Sort of a quilt, but more like tampon
Music
This 11-year-old knows how to tickle the keys. Now he’s headlining Newport Jazz Festival
Earthquake victims gather to receive food at a Tibetan monastery, a month after the April 25 earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal
Global Politics
International relief efforts are underway but Nepal’s nightmare hasn’t ended
Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured above with FIFA President Sepp Blatter, was among the guests at the World Cup final in Brazil on Sunday. Putin was attending because Russia will host the next tournament in 2018.
Sports
Don’t worry, FIFA — Putin has your back
According to the CDC, anthrax is a serious disease caused by a rod-shaped bacteria known as Bacillus anthracis. Anthrax can be found naturally in soil and commonly affects domestic and wild animals around the world.
Health
Pentagon’s anthrax readiness effort has gone horribly wrong
Poster designed for Iran's anti-ISIS cartoon contest.
Arts
Iran hosts an anti-ISIS cartoon contest. What could go wrong?
The soccer players at the School for International Studies are a committed group. Four days a week, they meet at around 7 AM for a pickup game before school.
Education
Why knowing some Arabic helps in this New York school’s soccer club
Longtime FIFA President Sepp Blatter at the annual FIFA meeting in Switzerland.
Sports
UPDATE: Besieged Blatter to step down from scandal-ridden world soccer body
The "Pearls of Pancasan" practice twice a week in their village in the northern mountains of Nicaragua
Education
Making ‘The Beautiful Game’ even more beautiful for these young Nicaraguans
Matthew VanDyke (right) says Iraqi Christians will be "wiped out" if they don't get help defending themselves.
Conflict
This American ‘foreign fighter’ says he’s helping Iraqi Christians fight ISIS
Sumaiya Mahee
Education
I am Muslim and from Bangladesh. That does not mean that I am a terrorist.
Zahed Haftlang (L) and Najah Aboud.
Conflict
He spared his ‘enemy’s’ life in a long-ago war. Today they are close friends.
A life-size bronze figure of British author Arthur Conan Doyle's character, the detective Sherlock Holmes is pictured on the main square in the town of Meiringen, Switzerland. Meiringen was the location of "The Adventure of the Final Problem" in which, wr
Books
The amazing rise and immortal life of Sherlock Holmes
Chuck Blazer, for nearly two decades the most senior American official at FIFA, , was among those whose guilty pleas were unsealed Wednesday by U.S. authorities. Blazer pocketed millions of dollars in marketing commissions and avoided paying taxes. He has
Sports
The American who’s already pleaded guilty in the FIFA scandal is part Santa Claus and part Falstaff
FIFA's communications director faces the spotlight after an indictment against some of the soccer organization's leaders
Sports
What is FIFA and what’s this corruption scandal all about?
A view of a Baiji oil refinery, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, February 19, 2008.
Conflict
An Iraqi oil refinery that was too important to destroy has just been destroyed
Global Politics
If China militarizes the South China Sea, the US ‘will have’ to respond
A passenger cools off a child using a pipe that supplies water to trains at a railway station on a hot summer day in the northern Indian city of Allahabad April 23, 2015.
Environment
Despite the extreme heat wave hitting India ‘you have to keep going’
A worker watches a production line of sparkling wine in a coastal Crimean village.
Food
Russians say ‘nyet’ to imported wine
Residents stand outside their homes as damaged cars are seen after a tornado hit the town of Ciudad Acuña, state of Coahuila.
Environment
Deadly tornado flips cars, wreaks havoc in Mexico. Across border, Texas faces flood.
A man works on the engine of his car, as motorists wait for fuel at a gas station in Abuja.
Business
In oil-rich Nigeria, just getting a tank of gas is an all-day endeavor
The Wolf volcano spews smoke and lava on Isabela Island, May 25.
Environment
Galapagos islands’ Wolf volcano erupts — rare pink iguanas not in danger
Michelle Bailhe was one of two graduating seniors chosen to speak at Brown University's 247th commencement. Bailhe delivered her address, “I Don’t Know,” in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 24.
Culture
‘I don’t know’ merely means ‘I don’t know yet’
Dutch and U.S. flags decorate the graves at the American Cemetery and Memorial in Margraten.
Conflict
Generations of Dutch citizens still trek to the graves of US World War II soldiers
A girl holding a candle takes part in a candlelight vigil, a month after the April 25 earthquake, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 25, 2015.
Global Politics
‘It’s a race against time’ to help Nepal’s earthquake survivors, warns one aid worker
Eighth grade teachers and students at the Putnam Avenue Upper School in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Education
Here’s what eighth graders can teach us about perpetuating stereotypes
James Tran got the idea for his indoor shrimp farm on a visit back to Vietnam to visit his family.
Business
Vietnamese immigrant raises fresh shrimp in Boston — one indoor vat at a time
Author and musician Yuval Ben-Ami, 39.
Music
In Holy Land, a tribute to Lorde gets complicated
A graffiti artist finishes a Yes campaign piece in central Dublin on May 20, 2015. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said that Ireland must seize its opportunity to become the first country to approve same-sex marriage in a popular vote when it holds a refe
Global Politics
LGBT activists are excited for Ireland’s refendum, but still wary of popular votes
The data page of a United States passport.
Conflict
This American’s passport ended up in the hands of smugglers in Turkey
An antiquated warplane belonging to Libyan pro-government forces prepares to attack ISIS-linked rebels in Benghazi. Italy and Egypt are pushing for the US-led anti-ISIS coalition to join the fight in Libya.
Conflict
Why the US doesn’t want to call ISIS’ offshoots parts of ISIS at all
A Yes supporter shows of her campaign badge in central Dublin in Ireland May 21, 2015. Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny said on Sunday that Ireland must seize its opportunity to become the first count
Global Politics
With joy, Irish return #hometovote on gay marriage
New Orleans trumpet player Travis "Trumpet Black" Hill helped link New Orleans to the many jazz fans and musicians of Japan.
Music
In New Orleans, Marco explores Japan’s jazz links to the Big Easy
Protesters, many against the fast track trade authority of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, rally outside a hotel in Portland, Oregon.
Economics
Why economists think the Trans-Pacific Partnership will be good for Americans
An Iraqi soldier carries a displaced child from Ramadi on the outskirts of Baghdad on May 19, 2015.
Conflict
As ISIS seeks revenge in Ramadi, a US veteran fears for his Sunni allies there
A masked man speaking in what is believed to be a North American accent is pictured in a video that ISIS militants released in September 2014.
Conflict
‘The Islamic State needs doctors and engineers, too’
Monarch butterflies at the Pismo Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove in California.
Environment
‘The situation is desperate’ for monarch butterflies, but here’s the plan to save them
A ‘No’ campaigner, opposed to the legalization of same-sex marriage, delivers his message on the sidewalk in Dublin on May 20, 2015.
Belief
Ireland’s same-sex marriage vote puts the Catholic Church on the defensive
Laborers working on the Qatar 2022 World Cup project arrive at their accommodations in Doha.
Conflict
Big-money World Cup sponsors may be the last hope for Qatar’s migrant workers
Andrew Miksys self-published an award-winning photography book, "Disko," about Lithuania's Soviet-era dance halls.
Arts
Self-published photo books go from last resorts to museum treasures
Rohingya Muslim women look out from their home at Aung Mingalar quarter in Sittwe, Myanmar
Conflict
Holocaust museum researcher finds early warning signs of genocide in Myanmar
A scene from the upcoming Fox animated series, "Bordertown."
Culture
Lalo Alcaraz warns the sensitive to avoid his new show, ‘Bordertown’
Noel Gomez
Development
A conversation with Noel Gomez, sex trafficking survivor-turned-advocate
Accepted to all eight Ivy League schools, Victor Agbafe will attend Harvard University this fall, setting him on the path to his dream of becoming a neurosurgeon.
Education
How Victor Agbafe’s immigrant parents taught him the lessons to get into all eight Ivies
Members of the Russian motorcycle group called 'Nachtwoelfe' (Night Wolves) arrive at the former German Nazi concentration camp in Dachau near Munich, Germany May 4, 2015.
Culture
Not Waco: Being Putin’s favorite motorcycle gang has its perks
A migrant boat from North Africa off the coast of Sicily. More than 1,700 people have drowned this year attempting to make the crossing into Europe.
Global Politics
Kids go free: How to advertise a Libyan people trafficking business
Jason Rezaian
Conflict
Freed: My friend, Jason Rezaian
Circassian protest on Times Square in 2011.
Culture
The day to remember the ‘forgotten genocide’
Justice
The darker side of Thailand’s sex industry: trafficking underage girls
A woman holds a picture of late Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero during a Mass to commemorate the 35th anniversary of his assassination in San Salvador on March 24.
Belief
El Salvador, divided by its first saint
New traffic lights in Vienna show male and female gay couples with hearts - in red for stop and green for go
Culture
How can you make your city’s streets safer? Same-sex traffic lights, says Vienna
The character Zoe ponders her purpose in life in this panel from the book, "Exquisite Corpse."
Books
It takes a bit of selfishness to make it as a graphic novelist in Paris
One of the ‘boat people.’ A Bangladeshi migrant allowed into Indonesia after weeks at sea.
Development
Under heavy pressure, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia grant temporary shelter to thousands of refugees trapped at sea
David Radznyski is the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra's newest concertmaster. He’s a 28-year-old violinist from New Haven, Connecticut, with Israeli roots.
Culture
Israel’s newest concertmaster leads a youth movement at the country’s premier orchestra
Sang Ho and crew paint his shrimping boat for shrimping season. He now also farms in addition to shrimp fishing.
Economics
How anti-communist Vietnamese refugees signed up for a cooperative farm