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Wilders has denounced the trial as an attempt to stifle political debate about Islam and immigration.
Global Politics
The Netherlands’ leading anti-immigration politician is on trial for hate speech
La Mussara
Culture
A trip to Spain’s ghost town: La Mussara
​Choi Soon-sil (C), who is involved in a political scandal, reacts as she is surrounded by media upon her arrival at a prosecutor's office in Seoul, South Korea, October 31, 2016.
Culture
Prosecutors quiz woman at the core of South Korea’s political crisis
FARC rebels pose with an unidentified girl holding a weapon in southern Colombia in this undated photo confiscated by the Colombian police and released to the media on November 12, 2009. Police said that the photo was found on the body of a rebel FARC kil
Conflict
She misses being a guerrilla, but this former FARC fighter is starting a new life back home
The US detonates "Mike," the first hydrogen bomb, on Nov. 1, 1952.
Conflict
From the Manhattan Project to the Iran deal: A nuclear timeline
Mexican-American singer Lila Downs is voting in her first election
Music
‘I hope for the best,’ says this first-time Mexican American voter
Scientists at the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre in Dubai.
Technology
The United Arab Emirates is jumping on the Mars exploration bandwagon
Riot police move to dismantle a burning roadblock in Nairobi December 31, 2007
Conflict
How contested elections wreck countries, and why the US might be okay
Protesters against the Dakota Access Pipeline
Justice
Protesters say mass arrests won’t stop their fight against a North Dakota oil pipeline
Eman Khan is 5 years old
Conflict
When being forcibly removed from your home isn’t entirely bad news
US President Lyndon Johnson looks on as Secretary of State Dean Rusk signs the Treaty for the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons on July 1, 1968.
Conflict
A family tradition: Working to keep the world safe from nuclear disaster
The cover image of the New Super-Man comic by DC Comics and writer Gene Luen Yang.
Books
DC Comics’ Chinese Superman rights a wrong dating back to 1937
Leslie Guy is a postman on the Scottish Isle of Lewis, where Donald Trump's mother was born and raised.
Election 2016
Donald Trump’s mother was an immigrant — from a remote rugged island in Scotland
A stack of National Geographic magazines
Culture
How I stumbled across a pristine copy of a famous National Geographic issue
Dino brain
Science
That’s not a pebble. It’s a fossilized dinosaur brain.
Singer-songwriter Rutaba Yaqub
Music
How a Saudi-born singer found her voice and her freedom in Pakistan
Woman with tool in front of damaged building
Development
Nepali immigrants who came to the US after the 2015 earthquake can stay a little longer
Former Brazilian soccer captain Carlos Alberto Torres holds the FIFA World Cup trophy in Rio de Janeiro on Nov. 21, 2010.
Culture
Brazil says goodbye to its ‘eternal captain’
Nabila ur Rehman
Conflict
A drone has left this 12-year-old girl as the keeper of her grandparents’ story
Fires broke out in many parts of the camp as the authorities attempted to clear it of residents.
Conflict
France’s ‘Jungle’ camp is burning – and many teenage migrants have nowhere to go
A photo taken from a Norwegian surveillance aircraft shows the Russian aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, in international waters off the coast of northern Norway on October 17th 2016 en route to the Mediterranean.
Conflict
Is Russia actually gearing up for war against the West?
Iraqi-trained physician Marwan Sweedan and the co-founders of Global Talent Idaho, Tara Wolfson (left) and Lisa Cooper.
Business
Where to turn when migrating to America ruins your career
Marvi Memon
Economics
The woman leading Pakistan’s welfare program puts cash in the hands of women
A street with small businesses, young boy on bicycle
Global Politics
What’s at stake when you tell the US Census you’re Middle Eastern or North African?
The Burj Khalifa (C) skyscraper is seen as the sun sets over Dubai on Oct. 5, 2010.
Health
Yes, there are people with vitamin D deficiency in this sunny country
Washington's Yakima Valley produces a quarter of the world's hops, but warming temperutres in the region have growers and brewers concerned about the future of the vital crop.
Environment
The climate for making beer is changing, so brewers and hops growers are, too
Steffen Kverneland stands in front of a large mural in the Tøyen neighborhood of a Oslo created from the cover of his graphic biography of Edvard Munch. The mural was created by Knverneland and another Norwegian, Monica Tollnes.
Arts
There’s more to Norwegian artist Edvard Munch than ‘The Scream’
Arpaio
Election 2016
Immigrants in Arizona are campaigning to oust a controversial sheriff
Shehzil Malik
Music
This artist draws the harassment she experiences on Pakistan’s streets
Three men on seats on stage, with word ATLANTA behind them
Media
Hashtags might not get your favorite actor the part, but studios do hear your pleas
Umaima Awan sits with her mother, Um-E Salma, at the family’s house in Jauharabad, Pakistan.
Education
This Pakistani mother was married off as a child — but she didn’t let it stop her
Rio, Brazil beach treasure hunters
Culture
Hunting for gold and GoPros left behind on Brazil’s beaches
Gordon Hamilton with an automated laser scanning system installed to monitor Helheim Glacier, in Southeast Greenland. July 2015.
Science
US climate scientist killed in Antarctica accident
Putin Randy Newman
Music
Check out Randy Newman’s new music video, all about Vladimir Putin
A police cadet injured during the attack on the Police Training Center lies in bed in a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan.
Conflict
Attackers kill dozens of sleeping cadets at Pakistani police academy in Quetta
afghanistan model un
Education
What’s the best way to spend $1 billion on women? These teens have some thoughts
A still image taken from an ISIS video
Conflict
Journalism in Mosul right now is punishable by death
Asima Naqvi
Conflict
This Pakistani police officer is part of a trend that could make a more peaceful world
Smoke rises after a US airstrike near Mosul, October 24th 2016
Conflict
About the Mosul offensive — did the ‘element of surprise’ ever matter?
A woman and her child, having fled Qayyarah, arrive at a front line position.
Conflict
Life under ISIS is ‘endlessly frightening and endlessly tedious’
An ad from the pro-soda tax campaign in three Bay Area cities. Public health researchers say Berkeley's 2015 soda tax has reduced consumption of sugary drinks by 21 percent.
Business
Grocers and health advocates are at odds over an Oakland ‘soda tax’ — and low-income communities are on the front line
Women legislators take photos as US President Barack Obama signs two new executive actions
Global Politics
The real impact of a female president? More women in politics.
Kristyn Leach on her Sunol, California farm, Namu. “There is significance to all this in terms of that sense of pride and connectedness,” she says.
Culture
A Korean adoptee finds her heritage through farming
Sabir Zazai
Conflict
For some refugees, integration into UK society doesn’t mean acceptance
Calais
Global Politics
As France dismantles ‘Jungle’ migrant camp, the UK grapples with how to help
Rebels take Dabiq from ISIS
Conflict
The Islamic State’s branding crisis
The introduction of the disposal diaper transformed childcare in the post-war era
Culture
Parents, take a moment to thank the inventor of the disposable diaper
Students watch an immersive video at the 'Forced From Home' exhibit run by the international medical group Doctors Without Borders
Conflict
At this new exhibit, you can feel what it’s like to be a refugee
Noluvuyiso Mpofu
Arts
A new opera star emerges from the ‘vocal breadbasket’ of South Africa
Pakistan's Sana Mir
Justice
Pakistan’s female cricket star is blazing a trail — but there’s still a lot of work to do
Rolling Blackouts
Media
Sarah Glidden wants her non-fiction comics to be a ‘gateway drug’ to learning about tough issues
Donald Trump
Election 2016
How Donald Trump’s anti-immigration rhetoric divided a city
Smoke rises after strikes on Syria Democratic Forces in northern Aleppo
Conflict
Why broken ceasefires are actually good for peace
Asmaa Albukaie, Idaho's first Syrian refugee, in her new home.
Conflict
Idaho’s first Syrian refugee wants Americans to understand their country’s vetting process
People sitting at a bar with a screen showing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton above
Election 2016
Texas is now a swing state, but here’s why these voters are sticking with Trump
Tijuana
Economics
Why Haitians are stranded in Mexico
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attends his first news conference after Iran's presidential election in Tehran, on June 14, 2009.
Global Politics
A ‘questionable result’ in Iran’s 2009 presidential election nearly tore the country apart
Hillary Clinton's campaign office in Little Haiti
Global Politics
Clinton’s complicated history in Haiti has some voters saying, why vote at all?
Birgitta Jonsdottir of the Pirate Party reacts alongisde party members
Development
When it comes to gender-equality aid, the US lags behind its peers
Lasse Quvang and Mai Jensen in Atlanta during their interview with The World.
Global Politics
Even Danes are trying to stop Donald Trump from becoming president