Did Gisele Bündchen hide from the Paparazzi by wearing a burqa?

You gotta keep one eye on Italy to run an Italian market in Philly

A doctor’s diary from Yemen tells the story of the forgotten Arab war

Threats to press freedom are on the rise in Latin America

A Canadian reporter smuggles himself into Yemen to see the war first hand

Why Norway is glad it’s NOT hosting the 2022 Olympics

Experimental Ebola vaccine is ‘highly efficacious and safe’ — but late

Project to translate ‘Walden’ into Farsi becomes a cultural exchange

How the Taliban used poetry to celebrate its founder, Mullah Omar

美国总统奥巴马将访问亚的斯亚贝巴，你知道它在哪里吗？

Strangers around the world gave Aziz Ansari the most intimate details of their romantic lives — their text messages

Iranian American talks to her conservative relatives in Iran about the nuclear deal

Thousands of prisoners in Myanmar released in political move

What can the Indian Ocean plane wreckage tell us?

In exile, Zimo becomes Syria’s pre-eminent Techno artist

Pétanque might become the next Olympic sport

A former Taliban prisoner remembers Mullah Omar

A lion slaying in Zimbabwe sparks debate about the future of big game hunting

Can we decrease gun violence by treating it like an infectious disease? Signs point to yes

Jonathan Pollard, American traitor and Israeli hero, will go free

Boston bows out of Olympic bid, but Toronto may be in

How dim sum cooks in California fought wage theft — and won

Months after deadly quakes, Nepal’s problems are only multiplying

Getting an education is the latest battle for migrant children who crossed US border alone last summer

Launching an art magazine by people and for people who know nothing about art

Indian sprinter Dutee Chand wins the right to compete again

What’s next for the Olympic Games in the US?

Japan’s still stodgy — but it may finally be getting better

Here’s what climate change looks like from the edge of the Greenland icecap

Working at the Gitmo US military base might cause cancer

The African Union is at a crucial moment in its development as a political force

There’s new life in Japan’s tech startup scene

Muammar Gaddafi’s son is sentenced to death in Libya

We will fight on the beaches: Britain’s war with rogue killer seagulls

For these basketball players, what happens in Vegas (hopefully) makes it to Seoul

Elaborate rituals and lions roaming the palace grounds are just part of what sets autocratic Ethiopia apart from its neighbors

Improved tunnels allow for easier drug trafficking

A Boston community is divided over the Dominican Republic’s citizenship policy

US human trafficking report is called ‘toilet paper’ after it upgrades Malaysia’s ranking

US-Turkish deal on Syria outrages America’s Kurdish allies

Chinese gamers have new options, but will they want them?

In northern Thailand, female prisoners are getting a second chance. Through massage.

Looking at the ‘virtue’ that drives some to kill themselves and others

First malaria vaccine has been approved

President Obama talks gay rights ahead of Kenya visit

For Christians in the Middle East, ISIS is only the latest catastrophe

Next stop: Ethiopia, where human rights are under siege

So what do Mexicans south of the border make of Donald Trump?

‘If I was Dominican, they wouldn’t have expelled me like some dog’

To this Ethiopian American singer, ‘home is always in flux’

Americans aren’t the only ones convinced women speak differently

Even with the Iran nuclear deal, the country still has an alarming record on human rights

This could be Obama’s last trip to Africa as president. What will his legacy be?

With Obama traveling in Africa, you may be hearing stories about … donkeys?

There’s irony floating over — and on the streets outside of — the mayors meeting in the Vatican

Should you visit Cuba before Americans ‘ruin’ it?

Canadian infidelity is alive and thriving in the hotbed of cheating, Ottawa

Obama is visiting Addis Ababa, but do you know where it is?

Here are three foreign films to watch this summer

The MacArthur Foundation decides to pull out of Russia, suggesting its presence there is unwelcome