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Men in black uniforms facing each other doing dance
Culture
New Zealand rugby team’s haka dance isn’t just about intimidation
Ocean waves hit perilously close to a house in Majuro. Marshall Islands.
Environment
‘I’m fighting for the survival of my country in the battle against climate change’
Echa wears the hijab because it's the law for women in Aceh. Echa is transgender, and when she wears the headscarf, she says no one calls her names.
Justice
A transgender woman in Aceh, Indonesia gathers strength as new anti-gay sex laws roll out
Women wave flags outside the AKP headquarters in Ankara, Turkey. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu described the outcome of a general election which swept his AKP back to a parliamentary majority on Sunday as a victory for democracy.
Global Politics
Update: Ruling AKP regains majority in Turkey. Here’s what that means.
Residents observe as policemen take up position near an area where two men were found dead on top of the Sao Carlos slums complex in Rio de Janeiro May 15, 2015.
Justice
Rio de Janeiro’s pacification program slips back to tactics from its bloody ‘War on Drugs’
Sports
60-foot waves — and daredevil surfers — hit this beach in Portugal
Bloodstained shoes are pictured after Syrian government forces fired missiles on a busy marketplace in Douma, a suburb of Damascus, October 30, 2015.
Conflict
US troops ordered to Syria, as peace talks take place in Vienna
John Sweeney and Azam
Conflict
How we found Azam — the ‘lost’ Syrian refugee boy
Ali Rezaian, brother of imprisoned Washington Post journalist Jason Rezaian, pauses as he talks about the recent announcement of a verdict in his brother's case by Iran's judiciary during a television interview with Reuters in Washington October 13, 2015.
Justice
An Iranian-American businessman’s arrest in Iran has the business community worried
P.J. Goodwin, in Boston, in front of his 2010 diesel Volkswagen Jetta SportWagen, a car sold to him as "clean diesel."
Environment
Volkswagen’s deception will cause 59 premature deaths in the US
adopted baby
Lifestyle
My daughter is my daughter due to China’s One-Child policy
Yamila Pastorino and Joana Dos Santos
Education
A community college that found a way not to charge these DREAMers extra for school
Boat
Conflict
Lethal farce in Aegean Sea continues as another refugee boat sinks off Lesbos
Angeles
Business
Here are three women blazing a trail in the red-hot mezcal industry
Conflict
She was attacked. That won’t stop her.
North Koreans chat on mobile phones and take some pictures as they enjoy nice weather in a park in central Pyongyang on October 11, 2015.
Belief
North Korea is not as closed as you might think
Temporary workers start to prepare the castle's haunted house about a month before Halloween. The haunted house was started by US military personnel almost 40 years ago.
Culture
There was a real Frankenstein castle. Yes, they dress it up for Halloween
FOXY opens a dialogue with young women across the Canadian North about sexual health, relationships, and making healthy decisions.
Culture
Straight talk about sex in the Canadian Arctic
Reza Jamayran poses in front of an image of a childhood hero, Lucky Luke.
Culture
If you want to convey a sense of lawlessness in Persian, Turkish or Norwegian, just say ‘Texas’
The remains of the Medecins Sans Frontieres hospital in Hayden, Yemen
Conflict
Another week, another Doctors Without Borders hospital bombed
It's common to see condom ads on billboards and on TV in India.
Culture
In India, condom ads are everywhere, but you can’t talk openly about sex
A man sells flat cakes in Dushanbe February 23, 2009.
Culture
Here’s why the US is sending students to Tajikistan to learn Farsi
Li Yan, pregnant with her second child, lies on a bed as her daughter places her head on her mother's stomach in Hefei, Anhui province February 20, 2014.
Development
How likely are Chinese to have more kids, now it’s legal?
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili meets pro-European integration protestors in Independence square in Kiev, December 7, 2013.
Global Politics
Former Georgian president brings the fight against corruption to Ukraine
Mapaseka Setlhodi is part of South Africa's "born free" generation, but she says her government has failed to fulfill its promises to young people like her.
Education
When the South African government says it can’t afford free education, this student says she doesn’t buy it
People shopping in Los Angeles.
Belief
I’m white in Barcelona but in Los Angeles I’m Hispanic?
People walk by a bright yellow sign that says "premium day" in a smiley face.
Arts
Manga artist Akiko Higashimura pulls her latest series after criticism by some men
Mexico City
Conflict
Mexico City is on alert as crime rises
A portion of “A new map of the submarine cables connecting the world in 2015,” with kind permission of TeleGeography and www.telegeography.com
Conflict
How vulnerable are the undersea cables that carry the web?
Standing passengers on a crowded bus in Bogotá might not feel so lucky, but at least they’re burning more calories than people who sit during the commute.
Economics
Why taking the bus is better for our health than driving
Ina Resnikoff, academic counsellor and learning specialist at North Shore Community College, with her student Osarumwense Agbonsalo, an immigrant from Nigeria
Education
Easy access to community college is a boon to immigrant students starting out in the US
Nasser bin Ali al-Ans
Conflict
The real winner in Yemen’s civil war could be al-Qaeda
Photographer Brian McCarty's image that was repurposed in an Islamic State propaganda.
Arts
This photographer was astonished to find his photo in ISIS propaganda
Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport where a Kurdish family have been trapped for more than a month.
Conflict
The Kurdish family trapped in Moscow airport
An archive photo of the USS Lassen
Conflict
US, China play dangerous ‘game of chicken’ in South China Sea
Wadjda looks at her desire, a bicycle, on the book cover for Haifaa al-Mansour's the new young adult novel, "The Green Bicycle."
Books
A girl rides a bike to to upend Saudi Arabia’s patriarchal society
1976 Imraan Christian
Media
South African photographer Imraan Christian on why #FeesMustFall was just the beginning
Climate conditions in much of the Persion Gulf/Arabian Peninsula area will often push past the limits of human adaptability by the end of this century under current greenhouse gas pollution trends, according to a new report in Nature Climate Change. These
Environment
Climate change may soon make much of the Persian Gulf region too hot for humans
The Durano Father School teaches stoic Korean dads how to be more involved and loving parents. The program includes a literal lesson on how to hug.
Culture
This school teaches Korean dads ‘how to hug’
A shrine for Eva Peron, wife of former Argentine President Juan Peron, is seen at the Peron, Peron restaurant in Buenos Aires, May 19, 2011.
Global Politics
Argentina campaigns for the future while remaining in the past
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich's new book is called Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few
Economics
What Germany’s got that America doesn’t
Rescue workers carry a girl injured in the tremors at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
Development
Afghanistan and Pakistan are hit by a major earthquake: ‘The earth just shook’
Ahmed Yousef, 25, an editor at Quds News Network, at a sweet shop in Ramallah. A photo of the Dome of the Rock, a sensitive holy site in Jerusalem, is on the wall. Tensions around the site helped spark the recent violence between Israelis and Palestinians
Conflict
As violence surges between Israelis and Palestinians, Facebook pages fan the flames with graphic images
Policemen detain a person dressed as Star Wars character Chewbacca during a regional election near a polling station in Odessa, Ukraine, October 25, 2015.
Justice
The Force was with Ukraine’s local elections
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Justice
Some Syrians fleeing not just civil war, but LGBT persecution
A man rides his bicycle past the Singapore Flyer observatory wheel shrouded by haze, in Singapore.
Environment
Toxic haze threatens millions in southeast Asia
Ventura
Business
California’s drought is hitting indigenous Latino workers hard
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Books
Fiction isn’t far off from reality in Margaret Atwood’s latest dystopic novel
Is Berlusconi like Trump? Is Trump the American Berlusconi?
Global Politics
Italians see something familiar in Donald Trump’s presidential campaign
US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz
Conflict
Was there an untold sense of urgency to Iran talks?
protest
Justice
Bahrain activist sentenced to year in prison for ripping up photo of the king
Bogotá has taken a number of design steps to slow cars down and keep them separate from pedestrians and cyclists.
Economics
Is being safer than Atlanta good enough for Bogotá?
Student protesters outside government buildings in Pretoria.
Education
Student protests continue in South Africa, despite concessions from the government
Taio Kaneta with his signature "Cafe de Monk" truck that he uses for his pop-up cafes. As a Buddhist monk, Kaneta wanted to offer something special to those still reeling from the triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown.
Belief
At Cafe de Monk, tsunami survivors can get coffee, cake and someone to listen to their woes
Umaru Fofana is one of Africa's most respected journalists. But he says that covering Ebola tested him in ways he never expected
Health
Umaru Fofana says he ‘had to let the world know’ about Ebola
hurricane
Environment
8 hurricanes that almost packed the punch of Patricia
Ninety five percent of urban Tanzanians use charcoal for cooking fuel, and the trade supports more than a million jobs. But charcoal production is taking a massive toll on the country's forests. After a failed attempt to ban the trade the country is now t
Environment
Tanzania is trying to turn the charcoal trade from an enemy to a friend of the forest
A staff member plays a shot towards a putting green on a lake from a tee ground on top of a hill, at Zhangjiajie, Hunan province September 23, 2014.
Sports
China has seen the enemy, and it is golf
A view of the permafrost tunnel near Fairbanks, Alaska. The tunnel preserves an environment more than 40,000 years old for scientists and engineers to study.
Environment
An Alaskan tunnel yields clues to Earth’s fragile permafrost
A beachgoer dives into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Benghazi, Libya
Conflict
In Libya’s second city, fleeting glimpses of normality