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The object of the board game Arranged! is to escape the busybody matchmaker and a loveless marriage.
Arts
This 24-year-old has created a board game about arranged marriage
Overhead shot of crowd flanked by police SUVs, evening time
Justice
Phoenix residents take over city council meeting for five hours to protest police use of force
A woman sits at a table
Conflict
Cherokee Freedmen overjoyed by federal court ruling granting tribal citizenship
An elderly woman in a wheelchair is rescued from the flood waters of tropical storm Harvey in east Houston, Texas.
Conflict
One of Houston’s most vulnerable communities faces the floods
US Coast Guard icebreaker
Environment
Who controls the Northwest Passage? It’s up for debate.
"The End" by Naji Al-Ali, from the Lebanese newspaper Al-Safir, 1980.
Arts
Revisiting the great Palestinian cartoonist Naji al-Ali 30 years after his assassination
Man in blue polo stands on street corner looking up, with sign for "Crunch" gym behind him
Global Politics
A ‘man of no land’ tries to find home in Saudi Arabia
Man holding up ID card for medical school
Justice
DACA recipients won’t go back into the shadows quietly
Bakers in Houston
Food
Workers trapped by Harvey at a Mexican bakery feed a hungry Houston
A rescue helicopter hovers in the background as an elderly woman and her poodle use an air mattress to float above flood waters from Tropical Storm Harvey while waiting to be rescued from Scarsdale Boulevard in Houston, Texas, U.S.
Environment
The Dutch have advice on how Houston can plan for future flooding events
Commuters walk through water-logged roads after rains in Mumbai.
Environment
Photos: Mumbai recovers from floods after the most rainfall in a more than a decade
Jeannie Rousseau (de Clarens), in 1939 or 1940.
Conflict
‘What I did was so little’: Remembering World War II spy hero Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens
Man at podium in front of microphones, in front of columns of Supreme Court building
Justice
While Trump considers ending DACA, immigrant advocates say don’t panic — prepare
Indian women protest government tax on sanitary pads
Economics
Indian women speak out about a government tax that declares certain feminine hygiene products ‘nonessential’
Former White House advisor Steve Bannon briefly practiced Buddhism before returning to Catholicism.
Books
Steve Bannon: A ‘new-age, mystical seeker’ who sees the apocalypse on the horizon
Commuters ride on rickshaws as streets are flooded due to heavy monsoon rains in Dhaka.
Conflict
Floods and landslides kill over 1,200 in South Asia
Residents wade through floodwaters from Tropical Storm Harvey in Beaumont Place, Houston.
Conflict
After Harvey, hundreds find refuge in Houston-area mosques
A convoy of ISIS fighters and their families begin to depart from the Lebanon-Syria border in Qalamoun, Syria, on Aug. 28, 2017.
Conflict
The US bombs path of ISIS convoy in Syria after a controversial withdrawal deal
Activists of the "Young Medics of Russia" social organization and city volunteers form a red ribbon
Health
While the Russian government looks away, AIDS spreads quickly
"So much rain has fallen," the National Weather Service tweeted about Harvey on Monday, "we've had to update the color charts on our graphics in order to effectively map it."
Science
Harvey may have caught Texas by surprise, but other places have been getting ready for more extreme weather
Detained migrants sit at a makeshift detention facility at Tajoura, Libya, earlier this month
Conflict
A growing number of migrants are detained in Libya, enduring dismal conditions
Hundreds of people are gathered in a room. Some are seated at tables and have water bottles, some pillow or blankets with them. A large screen is set up to broadcast news about Tropical Storm Harvey.
Justice
A looming immigration law is hurting Houston’s ability to help undocumented residents in wake of Harvey
Interstate highway 45 is submerged from the effects of Hurricane Harvey.
Global Politics
Mexican officials ignore Trump’s disparaging tweets and reach out a hand to Texas
A woman recycles plastic bags from a river near the Dondora dumpsite close to the slum of Korogocho in the capital Nairobi, Kenya, March 17, 2015
Environment
Where using plastic bags can land you a $38,000 fine
A young child takes refuge from Hurricane Harvey and plays with toys at a downtown church playroom.
Global Politics
With Harvey approaching, ICE left 50 immigrant women and children stranded at a bus station
The Greek city of Thessaloniki, Greece has long struggled to find embrace its Jewish history. But that's beginning to change under the city's current mayor.
Conflict
In Greece, a city struggles to come to terms with its Jewish past
Patrick Beaudry, founder and leader of Quebec group La Meute, marches during a protest to demand stronger border controls in Quebec City.
Global Politics
The far right in Quebec gets more inspiration from Europe than the US
Members of San Diego's LGBT community gather to celebrate the expiration of the U.S. military policy "Don't Ask Don't Tell," September 20. 2011.
Justice
New White House guidelines leave transgender service members and vets in limbo
The Ibrahim-al-Ibrahim Mosque in Gibraltar May 11, 2015.
Conflict
ISIS says it wants to rebuild the Muslim caliphate in Spain
hurricane approaching land
Environment
Is climate change making hurricanes worse?
A shepherd dog tending a herd of sheep outside Tbilisi, Georgia.
Environment
Hero sheepdogs protect flock for 20 days in a Canadian wildfire
A mother and her young daughter are watched by Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officers as they prepare to cross the US-Canada border from New York into Quebec earlier this month. Like thousands of others fleeing the US for Canada, the woman told off
Justice
Immigrants fearing Trump are heading to Canada in droves. But will they be able to stay?
College graduation
Business, Finance & Economics
How H-1B work visas transformed tech and education in the US and India
A dolphin performs tricks at a recent Six Flags show in Mexico City.
Culture
Mexico City is banning dolphin shows, taking a lead on animal rights
Batol Alansi, 5, with Ahmad Algohbary
Conflict
One-man NGO tries to save starving kids in Yemen
Fighting continues in Syria, where Kurdish troops from the People's Protection Units are facing down ISIS militants in Raqqa, Syria.
Conflict
Is Syria ‘the war of our time, a humanitarian test of our time?’
Roger Federer of Switzerland (left) shakes hands with Alexander Zverev of Germany.
Sports
This year’s US Open is as much about who couldn’t make it as who’s competing
A Soviet anti-racism stamp from 1960 featuring a black child with typical blackface imagery.
Arts
How red Russia broke new ground in the portrayal of black Americans
Thousands of protestors filled the Phoenix streets surrounding the Convention Center starting in the early afternoon.
Conflict
Trump’s Phoenix rally leads to protests and clashes with police
A gash can be seen in the destroyer, the USS John S. McCain, after a collision with civilian ship on Monday
Conflict
US Navy pauses global operations and fires an admiral after another collision at sea
trump in reno today
Global Politics
Watch live: Trump speech in Reno calls for healing ‘wounds that have divided us’
herbs and potions to end unwanted pregnancies
Health
Inside the Philippines’ women-run crime ring selling abortion elixirs
President Donald Trump announces his strategy for the war in Afghanistan during an address to the nation from Fort Myer, Virginia, August 21st 2017
Conflict
Pakistanis alarmed at Trump’s new policy on Afghanistan
Farha Faiz, a lawyer, speaks with the media
Justice
Instant divorce is unconstitutional in India, finally
From the rooftop to the bottle: Joris Hoebe's Hemelswater beer (“Heaven’s water”) is part of a citywide effort to control flooding in Amsterdam.
Culture
When life gives you too much rain, make beer with it
Chile eases on abortions
Development
Chile eases one of the world’s strictest abortion bans
time-lapse eclipse photo
Science
Awestruck viewers watch total eclipse sweep across US
The BBC Pidgin team in West Africa.
Media
A new digital platform in West Africa targets speakers of the Pidgin language
Brother Guy Consolmagno is a Jesuit priest and the director of the Vatican Observatory.
Belief
For this Vatican astronomer, the solar eclipse is divine coincidence
A U.S. soldier from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment shields himself from the rotor wash of a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter after being dropped off for a mission with the Afghan police near Jalalabad in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan December 20, 2014.
Conflict
What to expect as Trump unveils his decision on Afghanistan
Mexican women facing increasing harassment online are attending a workshop in Mexico City on how to deal with and protect themselves from digital violence.
Media
Mexican women stand up to cyberattacks and vicious digital violence
Man sitting on bench in front of sweets shop, looking off camera
Conflict
Immigration limbo is a ‘tug of emotions.’ It’s also a mental health issue.
French tourists flee Plaça de Catalunya a half hour after the vehicle terror attack.
Conflict
The aftermath of the deadly attacks in Barcelona
General John "Black Jack" Pershing
Conflict
Trump cites an urban legend about Gen. Pershing’s fight with primarily Muslim insurgents
Inmates at Kamiti Maximum Prison in Kenya wait to vote.
Justice
In Kenya this month, prisoners voted for president for the first time ever
Close-up of face of man asleep on sofa with infant child next to him, wrapped in blanket
Lifestyle
2,800 miles and 26 years later, a new dad looks for his own father in Guatemala
People react in the area where a van crashed into pedestrians at Las Ramblas street in Barcelona.
Culture
Why did ISIS target Spain? The answer may lie in history.
MTV Host Tinashe Venge, center, and Across Women's Lives reporter Jasmine Garsd, second from right, stand with South African students
Health
Here are 5 ways you can help fight HIV/AIDS in South Africa and globally
A statue of a Confederate soldier nicknamed Silent Sam stands on the campus of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S. August 17, 2017.
Arts
Here’s what Paraguayans did with a statue commemorating a longtime dictator
Hisham al-Omeisy, narrator of 'Guess my country,' a video by Mai Noman for the BBC
Conflict
Beloved Yemeni activist abducted by government security