Despite ruling, abortion is mostly illegal in Northern Ireland. And clinic protests are common.

With Kobe Bryant’s retirement announcement, Italian sports fans have one last season to see their NBA superstar in action

France bans marches, but climate activists make their voices heard

Live from Paris: COP21

Is the Colorado Springs shooting at a Planned Parenthood Clinic an ‘act of terrorism?’

Syrian family in California feels post-Paris chill

‘Borders are alive and well — but for a price you can flatten them’

How one Syrian refugee wound up bringing his dying wife with him to Greece

Despite security risks, Pope Francis plans to visit the Central African Republic

Facebook safety checks arrive in Nigeria, but some ask if it’s worth celebrating

Turning ice into fire: How climate change could mean more volcanic eruptions in Iceland

Discussion: How do you know that your holiday giving is going to the right place?

This Jewish couple survived the Holocaust hidden behind a church organ. Their daughter — also in hiding — had no idea.

New Zealand has a dark secret, female politicians say

For American expats, celebrating Thanksgiving in Paris takes on more meaning this year

France and Russia are both talking about a grand coalition against ISIS, but that’s easier said than done

The Pope goes to Kenya

When Ireland gathered around ‘the wireless’ in the dark, one boy saw the light

This Thanksgiving, warnings raise questions about whether now is the time to travel

Uganda: What happens when there is a delay in medical care?

A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians

A Black Lives Matter activist is taking a break, but not giving up on justice in Minneapolis

She got her turkey and turducken in South Africa, but then the power went out

What it’s like to go to ‘Thanksgiving’ in Paris

Syria is at the center of a booming trade in a little pill that’s cheap, easy to produce and completely illegal

A small Canadian mosque was set ablaze; funds to restore it were raised by an unknown organizer

Diamond heist was ‘largest burglary in English legal history’

A suicide attack in Tunisia targets presidential guards on a symbolic street

How one shop in California puts an Afghan twist on Thanksgiving

Hungary is putting hundreds of migrants on trial … for crossing the border

Thanksgiving and Syrian refugees in two ridiculous charts

A long wait for a father’s return

How the Iraq war caused a break between my Moroccan mom and her ‘American family’

British watchdog group says Russian planes are killing Syrian civilians at an alarming rate

In South Africa, it’s called the Black Tax

An American ‘Home Baker’ in Paris

These young people from the Paris suburbs didn’t know the attackers — but they know people like them

A Moroccan-American author embraces the ‘gray zone,’ where secular and faithful coexist

Turkey shoots Russian plane out of the sky, but Moscow will likely remain focused on ISIS — for now

In Brussels, Belgium, a kitty is under siege

Declassified document casts a new light on Soviet war scare in 1983

Some of the world’s greatest modern art has been kept in a vault in Tehran

A rare first-person account of living through the tropical cyclone that struck Yemen

How New Yorkers and Parisians reacted differently to attacks on their city

ISIS brings in millions and the US is all but helpless to stop it.

Here’s one easy way to share your Thanksgiving meal with Syrian refugees

Belgium’s fractured nature makes it tough to deal with would-be terrorists

A political shakeup is underway at the southern tip of the Americas

He imports the most amazing product from Damascus, but worries ‘Syrian’ on his shopfront scares away customers

A fake Syrian passport can be yours — for a couple hundred dollars and the right connections

From his bedroom hundreds of miles away, this teenager helped find the missing of Paris

At the Paris Great Mosque there’s tranquility inside and heavily armed guards outside

‘I feel safe in Israel. I don’t feel safe in Paris’

Another stunning terror attack and hostage crisis, this time in Mali

What the Bataclan meant to the musicians who played there

Photojournalist can’t get the images of the Paris attacks out of his head

Terrorists in their midst: Residents of a Brussels neighborhood now know

How should security forces respond to mass-hostage situations?

Canadians are coming out in droves, again, to resettle refugees — on their own dime

‘Don’t Vote For Racists,’ a refrain at the 2015 Latin Grammys