France has its own version of #OscarsSoWhite

Ex-CIA director to Trump: ‘Bring your own bucket’ if you want to waterboard

It’s not just Kesha. Women face demands for transactional sex all over the world.

Workers in Mexico’s border factories say they can barely survive, so they’re turning to unions

How will Brazil come through on its Olympic promises?

French police begin a partial demolition of the ‘Jungle’ in Calais, sparking unrest

Not many fish are left to bite in Rio’s trash-lined bay

Mothers fear having babies at hospital once hailed for promoting Israeli, Palestinian coexistence

Banned from the beach for pollution, these Brazilians brought beach culture to a lake

As America’s presidential race rages, Africans look on and wonder

Lindy Hopping down memory lane in Rio

Scalia’s ties with secretive aristocratic hunting society

Iranians love their klezmer

Afghan boy finally got the Lionel Messi jersey he always wanted

The bigger problems behind Brazil’s recent disease outbreaks

Olympic sailor Isabel Swan wants a clean bay in Brazil for the Olympics

African Avengers: The Comic Republic is creating a new world of superheroes

Burundi exile to US’s Samantha Power: ‘You shake the hand of the killers’

This Iranian American went to visit Tehran, and decided to stay for the food

Brazil’s huge dam is built, but these women won’t stop fighting

Presidential candidates on the Middle East: here’s why it matters

How does ISIS get bomb components? Mostly legally, it seems.

Man attempts to cross the Alps wearing prosthetic hooves

Thanks to Zika, now we know Latin America has the toughest abortion policies in the world

A magical, animated tale from Brazil is up for an Oscar

An El Salvador-born Rubio supporter says his candidate can fix broken immigration system

How Apple vs. the FBI would play out in Britain and France

The face of Target (and others) in Bangladesh, at 400 pieces an hour

Russia flies spy planes over our heads multiple times a year — and the US is cool with it

‘Little Teresa’ helps São Paulo women fight drought and male domination — with rain barrels

Ebola survivors struggle with long-term effects of the virus

I forgot the art of showering in cold water

What happened after Guantanamo for these ex-detainees? It wasn’t pretty.

One reason undocumented immigrants didn’t learn about Flint’s lead poisoning sooner: There wasn’t much in Spanish

Syrian women under siege share insights about love, fear and food

‘I’ve been grabbed, followed, yelled at, sworn at’

This Brazilian artist’s work doesn’t last, it melts. And that’s her point.

Brazil’s microcephaly outbreak captured in portraits

Young women in Kosovo are writing code to fight harassment

When was the last time you bowed to someone out of deep respect?

This isn’t the first time the US and Russia have come together on Syria

New report blames most rising seas on humans — but this scientist remains hopeful

How Britain’s debate over Europe has opened an old rivalry between former schoolmates

Many Americans want to behave more Swedish on the road

President Obama presents a vague plan to close Guantanamo Bay’s prison

Hollywood is a white boy’s club, says one report. Here’s an antidote.

‘We have a child with microcephaly, and we’re happy’

This pop star calling out an aggressor is highlighting a vast gender violence problem

These activists are putting a face to a taboo word in Ireland: abortion

How Brazil’s favorite app is helping doctors and parents cope with microcephaly

Remembering ‘the little man with the mustache’ who made coffee for all

In this era of identity, are we actually voting less along identity lines?

These Iranian entrepreneurs are building a future out of wood

An app promising to help Iranians get around the morality police was quickly shut down

These mosquitoes could be a weapon against Zika

The budget for the Rio Olympics is 16 times higher than the budget to combat the Zika virus

How Russians and Americans have teamed up to rescue Sochi’s stray dogs

Violin masterclass — Why I wanted to learn Iranian scales

Global temperatures rise to scary new levels

WWI soldiers spent less time in trenches than we previously thought