Irma rips through the Caribbean, with a wallop to the US Virgin Islands

Washington gears up for next phase in Russia investigations

For the asylum-seekers in one of Australia’s controversial offshore detention camps, there’s good news and bad news

Russia-linked Facebook accounts stoked US election divisions

Wealthy Russians are having babies in the US, for passports

A Jewish folk song is preserved in a Japanese video game

For some Americans, the conflict in Syria is ‘the Spanish Civil War of our time’