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An artist's impression of the Rosetta spacecraft shortly before hitting Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Sept. 30.
Technology
A scientist and her team wish their Rosetta comet probe a bittersweet farewell
Shimon Peres was a proud holder of an Israeli organ donor card.
Belief
Shimon Peres wanted Israelis to be organ donors — like him
A commuter cycles in central London on November 15, 2013. The deaths of five cyclists in just nine days on the road this month in London have prompted calls for the city to speed up road safety measures in the capital.
Culture
London bans the most dangerous trucks from its streets
United States Ambassador to Denmark Rufus Gifford
Global Politics
The US ambassador to Denmark is a reality TV star. Now you can watch his show
This 2015 cartoon by Keith Knight is an attempt to explain why Black Lives Matter is a legitimate phrase.
Justice
Keith Knight’s cartoons get to the heart of the US conversation on race
Menkir Tamrath holds up two jars of Ethiopian blends spices, Berbere and Mitmita, from plants he grows on his farm in Sunol, California.
Food
This MBA missed the tastes of Ethiopia — so he starting growing it for himself
Comedian Zahra Noorbakhsh is the co-host of the podcast #GoodMuslimBadMuslim.
Culture
Coming out as bisexual when you’re Muslim and married
Three women protesting, with t-shirts and signs
Justice
Latinos in Arizona are helping make it a swing state — but not just because of Trump
Front of Adelanto detention center with GEO Group sign
Justice
California’s governor vetoed a bill that would stop privately run migrant detention. What now?
Pictured are US troops marching on Monterrey in this painting by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot after a drawing from Carl Nebel.
Conflict
Remains of US soldiers killed in Mexican-American War return home after 170 years
Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) (L) watches as John Cornyn (R-TX) speaks after the Senate votes to override Barack Obama's veto of a bill that would allow lawsuits against Saudi Arabia's government over the Sept. 11 attacks.
Global Politics
9/11 families can now sue Saudi Arabia. That could ‘open the floodgates’ for suits against the US.
9/11 memorial
Justice
Mother of 9/11 victim is ambivalent about suing the Saudis
Heidy and Gregoria prepare dinner, rice and eggs
Global Politics
As Cuban migration surges, a woman in Pittsburgh offers shelter to her compatriots
Systema Solar at BOmm
Music
Young musicians in Colombia talk about the prospects for peace
pepe the frog
Media
Pepe the Frog’s creator is really annoyed with the Anti-Defamation League
Photographer shoots family across green field
Culture
A small-town Mexican photographer brings big-time nostalgia with him to Detroit
Maritime Bhangra dance in Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia.
Culture
Check out this bhangra by the beach, Nova Scotia style
MIT professor Rainer Weiss dreamed up the idea behind an antennae so sensitive it could detect faint invisible ripples in space and time.
Global Politics
A physicist who proved Einstein right started by tinkering with the family record player
Former Isareli Prime Minister Shimon Peres (left) chats with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat while attending the inauguration ceremony of a park in memory of the former Norwegian Foreign Minister Jorgen Holst in the Gaza Strip in this October 13, 1998
Global Politics
Many Palestinians will not remember Shimon Peres as a man of peace
Israel's President Shimon Peres
Global Politics
Remembering Shimon Peres, one of the last links to Israel’s early days
A giant version of the Ryder Cup trophy
Sports
The Ryder Cup is teeing off, and I’m going (yay!)
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton
Global Politics
In Nigeria, many stayed up late for the drama, not the content of the US presidential debate
Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown (R), opposition Conservative Party leader David Cameron (L) and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg take part in the second of Britain's leadership election debates in Bristol, southwest England, on April 22, 2010.
Global Politics
There’s a simple reason why it took so long for televised debates to become part of British politics
The word cucumber was one of many devastating insults in Elizabethan England.
Culture
Strumpets and ninnycocks. A short guide to Elizabethan insults.
Trump
Election 2016
What it was like to produce the Clinton and Trump debate live en Español
Christophe Ferrari in his vineyard in Irancy
Environment
French Chablis makers can’t take another tiny harvest. So they’re bringing in anti-hail cannons
Child looks at camera while sucking thumb
Education
In Arkansas, schools are supposed to teach in English. Here’s how one district gets around it.
Two women ride their bicycles on the Lindengracht market in Amsterdam in this snapshot dating to August 2004.
Education
This easy maneuver, borrowed from the Dutch, could be life-saving for cyclists
Colombians gather in Bogota’s Bolivar Square, to mark the signing of a historic peace deal with the FARC rebels.
Conflict
Families are divided over Colombia’s peace vote
Ole Lelein Kanunga
Health
A Maasai warrior is rallying men to fight female genital mutilation
Bloody glasses cartoon
Arts
Anyone who shares religious satire on Facebook should care about this murder in Jordan
A boy sits on a bicycle in front of damaged shops after an airstrike on the rebel held al-Qaterji neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria.
Conflict
Syrian Americans have some questions for Clinton and Trump
A memorial of flowers and photos are placed outside a gate at Marlins Park in honor of Miami Marlins starting pitcher Jose Fernandez who was killed in a boating accident.
Sports
Miami mourns a baseball star
Fighters from Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC),stand in line during the opening of ceremony congress at the camp where they prepare for ratifying a peace deal with the government, near El Diamante in Yari Plains, Colombia, September 17, 2016.
Conflict
Colombian government and FARC leaders sign a historic peace deal
Two high ranking male chimps bond.
Conflict
Humanity may not be hardwired for violence, after all
Changui Majadero
Music
A song for justice and Mexico’s missing Ayotzinapa 43
Ahilan Arulanantham is a 2016 MacArthur fellow
Justice
This ‘genius grant’ recipient says the principles he fights for aren’t complicated
Tacos of Cochinita Pibil, a popular dish from Yucatan, are seen during an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the world's longest taco in Guadalajara February 15, 2015.
Food
Be like Norway. Do taco Friday.
The Google Doodle honors el luchador.
Culture
Google celebrates famed luchador El Santo’s would-be 99th birthday
A vegan burger from Momofuku Nishi
Environment
A veggie burger that ‘bleeds’ might convince some carnivores to eat green
Jose Quinonez (center) and his staff at Mission Asset Fund in San Francisco
Finance
‘Genius grant’ goes to group that helps immigrants build credit history
Woman and man looking at a cellphone
Justice
His brother was murdered for wearing a turban after 9/11. 15 years later, he spoke to the killer.
What are Egyptians thinking about the US election?
Global Politics
Why some Egyptians may support Trump in the US election
Former Afghan Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar speaks to a Reuters correspondent in Tehran 2002.
Conflict
Afghanistan pardons ‘The Butcher of Kabul.’ An Afghan recalls the horror.
A rescue worker and a dog search among debris following an earthquake in Amatrice, central Italy, August 27, 2016.
Arts
Italy’s art historians, firefighters and special police scamble to rescue quake-stricken Amatrice’s heritage
Jimmy Blanco, 9, holds a corncob in front of the Cuban and the U.S. flags in Havana, March 23, 2016. Struggling under a US embargo, many Cubans hope an easing of US-Cuban trade relations will bring material improvements to their lives.
Economics
North Carolina farmers increasingly look to export to Cuba
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks during a campaign rally at the Coliseum on August 8, 2016 in St. Petersburg, Florida. A new national poll shows Clinton's lead expanding over Republican rival Donald Trump.
Culture
This is the only photo of Hillary Clinton one newspaper has ever run
Spadina Rd
Arts
Indigenous street names in Toronto get noticed and made ‘official’
Mohammed Badran was 19 when he was forced to flee Syria. He's the co-founder of Syrian Volunteers in the Netherlands.
Conflict
UN speaker: Being a refugee is an experience, not an identity
Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter
Conflict
A massive US weapons deal with Israel means more weapons for its Arab neighbors, too
Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in an undated file photo.
Justice
‘My father lost his life through a bombing, by agents of a man who Henry Kissinger supported’
France will say goodbye to plastic cups by 2020.
Environment
France bids adieu to plastic cups (!)
Khaldoun Barghouti, an ex-prisoner-turned-entrepreneur, serves up a chicken sandwich for a young customer in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Culture
Two Palestinian ex-prisoners open up Ramallah’s first food truck
Woman on street holds sign showing farmworkers marching in black and white photo
Justice
50 years later, protesters re-enact a farmworker strike that is scarcely mentioned in the history books
Lyse Doucet reunited with the Sabbagh family in a Toronto park
Conflict
The girl at the center of a film about Syria’s war is now thriving in Canada
moria refugees fire
Global Politics
Refugees lose the little they have left in Lesbos detention center blaze
An Israeli soldier walks past U.S. Republican Party activists in Israel, who are holding a banner in support of their presidential nominee, Donald Trump, during a campaign aimed at potential American voters living in Israel, near a mall in Modi'in, Israel
Election 2016
Trump’s supporters in Israel are looking for every last vote
Prisca Korein, a 62-year-old traditional surgeon, holds razor blades before carrying out female genital mutilation on teenage girls from the Sebei tribe in Bukwa district, about 357 kms (214 miles) northeast of Kampala, December 15, 2008.
Education
The movement that brought the UK’s female genital mutilation problem to light
Portrait of man, outdoors
Election 2016
Muslim refugees of another era could put Missouri in play for Clinton
The author tries out CityScoot
Environment
First bikes, then cars. Now electric scooters are the latest share craze.