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Top Republican candidates at the Iowa presidential debate
Global Politics
In their latest debate, Republicans spar over refugees and undocumented immigrants
Displaced Syrian children waiting to cross the border into Turkey
Conflict
Syria peace talks flounder, raising fears of an escalation in the refugee crisis
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, and Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza speak to the press in Gitega, Burundi.
Conflict
US Ambassador Samantha Power: ‘The match could be laid’ to ignite Burundi conflict
Miatta reads
Books
Once a refugee, she’s opened one of Liberia’s few bookstores, where children can read about themselves
Michael Brun
Music
The song ‘Wherever I Go’ has brought this DJ back to Haiti to support the arts
It's a cold winter day and there are camp fires everywhere
Conflict
This French refugee camp has rats, mud and toilets that are overflowing.
The Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion soon after launch from the Kennedy Space Center in this NASA handout photo dated January 28, 1986.
Global Politics
The Challenger disaster, as seen from the Soviet Union
A Griffon Vulture is seen at the veterinary clinic at the Ramat Gan Safari Zoo, near Tel Aviv January 29, 2016. The vulture from an Israeli nature reserve with an Israeli identification ring and location transmitter was captured by residents of the south
Conflict
Are these animals spies? This one was behind bars.
The Stipanovic family
Conflict
They fled war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and found stability in Boston
water
Environment
Mexico City residents brace for water cuts that will leave them dry for days
Ana Marrero - WLRN
Justice
Once a prisoner in Cuba, a transgender Cuban woman vows to never return
Refugees and migrants jump off a boat as they arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos, November 26, 2015.
Culture
A historically xenophobic metaphor has been used by Trump, Limbaugh, Obama —and us?
Northern Lines Railway in Saint Cloud, Minnesota.
Global Politics
Like Europe, a Minnesota city struggles with refugees
Graph of renewable energy investment
Environment
Even with low fossil fuel prices, renewable investment hit record highs
Geovane Silva holds his son Gustavo Henrique, who has microcephaly, in Recife, Brazil. Health authorities in the Brazilian state at the center of a rapidly spreading Zika outbreak have been overwhelmed by the alarming surge in cases of babies born with mi
Health
Update: Up to 4 million Zika cases predicted
A couple kiss in front of the Pantheon during a demonstration of supporters of same-sex civil union in Rome.
Justice
Protesters in Italy tell lawmakers it’s time to ‘wake up’ and recognize same-sex unions
William Thomas (L), Concepcion Picciotto (C) and Ellen Thomas (R) sit in front of the White House.
Culture
The story behind Concepcion Picciotto, Washington’s most resolute protester
Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's "Dos Mujeres (Salvadora y Herminia)" (1928).
Arts
Frida Kahlo’s breakthrough work is coming to Boston
The French AZERTY keyboard is subtly different from the QWERTY keyboard used in the English-speaking world.
Culture
AZERTY yourself: Should we end this French keyboard madness?
A health worker stands in the Sambadrome as he sprays insecticide to combat the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that transmit the Zika virus, in Rio de Janeiro. Inspectors are spraying the insecticide around the Sambadrome, the outdoor grounds where thousands of
Health
The Zika virus has Brazil fumigating the Sambadrome in advance of Carnival
Rugs
Business
Step inside the LA shop ready to profit from better Iran-US relations
Tugba Sunguroglu, Ilayda Akdogan, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Elit Iscan, and Gunes Sensoy in Mustang.
Arts
Virginity tests and an Oscar nomination: The rise of ‘Mustang’
Three escaped inmates from Orange County jail remain on the run.
Culture
Escaped prisoners on the run in California may be hiding in Little Saigon
Imperial Valley hunger 1
Food
Why are kids going hungry in one of California’s most productive farming regions?
French chef Dominique Crenn.
Culture
A French chef’s love letter to Brittany
A migrant prays beside a freeway north of Rodby as a large group of migrants, mainly from Syria, walk on the highway towards the north September 7, 2015. Many migrants, mainly from Syria and Iraq, have arrived in Denmark over the last few days.
Global Politics
Denmark plans to start seizing assets from people fleeing war
Bartender and Café Elleboode owner Laura Six welcomes Kurdish migrants from a nearby refugee camp.
Business
The new regulars at this French café are migrants living in a nearby camp
Sainkho Namtchylak takes a selfie of her cornrows.
Music
An expressive singer from Tuva learns to value silence — from a band in Mali
Rana Samara says she became interested in painting intimate scenes, post-sex, after visiting a friend in a Palestinian refugee camp where there's little privacy. "I started questioning like, how did people make sex? How did they sleep together?”
Arts
This artist’s work isn’t about the Israeli occupation. She paints Palestinian bedrooms — post-sex.
Egyptian police made a show of force in Cairo’s iconic Tahrir Square on January 25, 2016, as small pro-government demonstrations took place on the fifth anniversary of the uprising that toppled former dictator, Hosni Mubarak.
Conflict
In Egypt, it’s almost like the January 25th revolution never happened
Actor Benicio Del Toro arrives for the UK premiere of "Sicario" at Leicester Square in London
Culture
Why #OscarsSoWhite isn’t very Latino
Dead sperm whales are seen on a beach off the coast of the Netherlands, January 13, 2016.
Environment
They’re breathtaking. They’re smart. Why are they dying?
A general view of Tahrir Square during the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ended 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak in Cairo, Egypt on January 25, 2016.
Conflict
5th anniversary of Egypt’s revolution ‘a sad day for those of us who really believed’
A health worker fumigates the Altos del Cerro neighbourhood as part of preventive measures against the Zika virus and other mosquito-borne diseases in Soyapango, El Salvador.
Health
This country doesn’t want women to get pregnant until 2018
Nidderdale
Culture
On ‘The Wind in the Willows’ and going home
Conflict
Built to last: He’s staying in a war zone because he can’t bear to leave his 1950s cars
Monsieur Periné at the House of Blues Boston.
Music
Cumbia + swing = Grammy
Main Somali youth 2
Education
Somali youth in one Maine city are learning to navigate several cultures
Palestinian singer Qassem Al Najjar says none of his songs are about the stabbings of Israelis. He doesn't support the stabbings but he says he understands them.
Conflict
In Ramallah, some of the hottest pop tunes are about stabbing Israelis
A woman takes photographs as snow is seen at the background on the Yangmungshan National Park during a snowfall in Taipei, Taiwan. Taiwan experienced a sudden drop in temperature over the weekend.
Environment
A historic cold front has Taiwanese freezing inside their homes
Ebola Survivor Gorma Dolo, holds an ebola free health certificate at her house in Freeman Reserve, Liberia.
Health
Ebola survivors face lingering health problems
​People walk in a park as it snows in Moscow, Russia, January 14, 2016.
Culture
The blizzard striking Washington would just be another snowstorm in Moscow
Norwegian company Statoil plans to build the first floating wind farm off the Scottish coast.
Business
Can a Norwegian company with ‘oil’ in its name transform into a wind company?
Thousands of priceless antiques from across war-ravaged Syria are gathered in the capital of Damascus to be stored safely away from the hands of Islamic State militants and the ongoing war across most of the country. Syria is a cultural treasure trove and
Belief
ISIS wants to erase the Middle East’s Christian history — and make a few bucks along the way
Conflict
Cold from the snow? This video will melt your heart.
Amal Clooney speaking at recent news conference for another high-profile case
Justice
Amal Clooney slammed by Azerbaijan for taking on human rights case
Lido beach after an attack on a hotel, in Mogadishu.
Conflict
Fighting a terror attack with photographs of joy
Cauliflower
Economics
Forget the canary, in Canada there’s a cauliflower in the coal mine
A customer holds a nozzle to fill up his tank in a gasoline station in Nice December 5, 2014.
Economics
How do low oil prices affect life where you live?
A migrant sits on her bags while waiting for a train in Presevo, Serbia.
Justice
No bathrooms. No heat. Aboard the decrepit refugee ‘cattle cars.’
This artistic rendering shows the distant view from Planet Nine back towards the sun
Science
New Planet 9 ‘is a massive thing that’s pushing everything around out there’
Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital shortly before his death in 2006.
Justice
Putin ‘probably’ ordered assassination in London, says official inquiry
Ahmed Lababidi waits for the bus on Jeju Island. Lababidi left his war torn hometown, Aleppo, fleeing across the Turkish border in 2012. He followed his younger brother to South Korea and settled on Jeju.
Conflict
What the new life of a Syrian on Jeju Island looks like
An Anopheles stephensi mosquito obtains a blood meal from a human host through its pointed proboscis in this undated handout photo obtained by Reuters November 23, 2015.
Health
Brazil fears new danger from Zika virus: Paralysis
Blood stains and flak jackets used by attackers remain in the hallway of a dormitory where a militant attack took place at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda, Pakistan on January 20, 2016.
Conflict
Pakistanis shudder after militants stage a savage attack on a university
Caitlin Duncan (right), Hesham Ahmad Mohammad (center) and Caitlin Duncan's boyfriend (left) on New Year's Eve.
Conflict
This Syrian refugee rescued an American student after she was assaulted in Cologne
An ISIS supporter waves a flag in Raqqa, Syria
Conflict
The San Bernardino attack is the lead story in ISIS’ latest propaganda magazine
Flint's water tower
Environment
Flint’s lead problem extreme example of chronic global problem
Bottles of Havana Club rum are displayed inside a shop in Havana, November 25, 2015.
Business
Cuba wins control over the ‘Havana Club’ rum brand name
An arial view (2013) of the Za'atri camp in Jordan for Syrian refugees as seen from a helicopter.
Medicine
What an American doctor learned when he visited a Syrian refugee camp