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People protest in Khartoum, Sudan, after a military coup earlier this week, Oct. 29, 2021.
Conflict & Justice
Amid plans of mass protests, Sudan’s military suggests ousted prime minister can return to power
Climate activist Greta Thunberg, center, demonstrates with others in front of the Standard and Chartered Bank during a climate protest in London, Oct. 29, 2021. People were protesting in London ahead of the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), which
Climate Change
Why COP26 is the ‘last, best hope’ for fighting climate change 
The ghost known as Kollivay Pey, by Shyam, featured in the book "Ghosts, Demons and Monsters of India."
Belief
Haunted India: A new ghost compendium features 700 creatures from A to Z
People protest in Khartoum, Sudan, two days after a military coup, Oct. 27, 2021. The coup threatens to halt Sudan's fitful transition to democracy, which began after the 2019 ouster of longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir and his Islamist government in a popula
Sudan’s ousted ambassador to the US says resorting to ‘the gun’ doesn’t aid the revolution
Merck corporate headquarters in Kenilworth, New Jersey.
Medicine
New Merck pill could help treat COVID-19 symptoms for people without access to vaccines
The logo for ExxonMobil appears above a trading post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Top of The World
Top US oil executives to testify before Congress
Yaa Asantewaa laments how farmers affected by climate change lead to a scarcity of vegetables at higher costs.
Climate Change
‘We might be pushed out of business’: Ghana’s vegetable sellers see produce dwindle due to climate change
Migrants leave Huixtla, Chiapas state, Mexico, early Oct. 27, 2021, as they continue their trek north toward Mexico's northern states and the US border.
Migration
Thousands of migrants heading north to the US-Mexico border face a ‘collapsed’ asylum system, advocates say
A general view of Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt
Global Politics
Egypt ends its state of emergency amid intense criticism of its human rights record
Sylvia Whitman, proprietor of the English and American literature Shakespeare and Co. bookstore, checks her messages on her phone in Paris, France, Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020.
Books
A new law in France aims to protect indie bookshops against outsized Amazon competition
A man balances his motorbike tank on his head as he waits outside a gas station in hopes of filling his tank, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Oct. 23, 2021. The ongoing fuel shortage has worsened, with demonstrators blocking roads and burning tires in Haiti'
Conflict & Justice
Haiti’s rival gangs hold a firm grip on fuel supply, testing life at every level
Palestinian laborers work building new houses in the West Bank Jewish settlement of Bruchin near the Palestinian town of Nablus
Top of The World
Israel approves nearly 3,000 new Jewish settlement homes in the West Bank
A health worker administers a vaccination to a child during a polio campaign in the old part of Kabul, Afghanistan, June 15, 2021. UN agencies are gearing up to vaccinate all of Afghanistan’s children under 5 against polio after the Taliban agreed to the
Afghanistan
An upcoming vaccine drive in Afghanistan is an ‘unprecedented opportunity’ to eradicate polio, UN official says
A pro-democracy protester wearing a turquoise blue scarf flashes the victory sign as thousands take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials, in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 25, 2021.
Protest
Sudanese protester to military: ‘Our numbers are too big to be ignored’
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad heads a cabinet meeting, in Damascus, Syria
Economics
Report: Syrian government manipulates exchange rates to pocket aid money
A gas station is empty because the gas pumps are out of service in Tehran, Iran, after a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card
Top of The World
Iran faces widespread gas station outage, believed to be a cyberattack.
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021.
Protest
Protests erupt across Sudan against military coup
Shawan Jabarin, director of the al-Haq human rights group, at the organization's offices in the West Bank city of Ramallah
Human rights
Israeli designation of 6 NGOs as terrorist organizations ‘criminalizes’ civil society work, media consultant says
Members of a Turkish group hold a symbolic boarding pass for 10 foreign ambassadors as they stage a protest near the US Embassy to support Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, in Ankara, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021. 
Foreign policy
Turkey’s Erdoğan strategically backtracks threat to expel Western diplomats, political analyst explains
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters take to the streets to condemn a takeover by military officials in Khartoum, Sudan
Top of The World
Sudan’s military seizes power, dissolves transitional government
Members of the South Korean Confederation of Trade Unions wearing masks and costumes inspired by the Netflix original Korean series "Squid Game" attend a rally demanding job security in Seoul, South Korea
Arts, Culture & Media
Netflix hit ‘Squid Game’ exposes the growing resentment between rich and poor, psychiatrist says
People wade past a flooded area in Dipayal Silgadhi, Nepal.
Top of The World
Flooding and mudslides kill about 200 people in Nepal
Most rope crossovers while skipping backwards in 30 seconds — As Seen on TV
Education
In China, jump roping is a popular competitive sport. Skill level also affects kids’ grades.
Pep González, a longtime mushroom forager, on a hunt for mushrooms in the forest.
Food
Foragers in Catalonia embrace a new mushroom-hunting season after last year’s strict lockdown
A nurse prepares a syringe for a patient infected with the coronavirus in the intensive care unit at the Syrian American Medical Society Hospital
Coronavirus Conversations
Discussion: The challenges of vaccinating people in conflict zones
A health worker inoculates a man next to a banner thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for 1 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccine at a government hospital in New Delhi, India
Top of The World
A milestone for India: 1 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses administered.
Pascal Danaë and his blues-rock trio, Delgrés band.
Music
Delgrès founder pays tribute to his family’s Guadeloupean roots through music
Senators Omar Aziz, sitting left, and Eduardo Braga, right, read a part of a report by a Senate commission that investigated the government's management of the COVID-19 pandemic at the Federal Senate in Brasilia, Brazil, Wednesday, Oct. 20, 2021.
Brazil under Bolsonaro
Bolsonaro accused of crimes against humanity over negligent COVID response 
Lebanese teachers react to the sounds from nearby armed clashes as they flee their school under the protection of Lebanese soldiers after a clash erupted along a former 1975-90 civil war front line between Muslim Shiite and Christian areas at Ain el-Ruman
Conflict & Justice
Tensions rise over Beirut blast investigation
Farmworkers, who declined to give their names, break up earth, July 1, 2021, near St. Paul, Oregon.
Immigration
The US farmworker shortage spurs farmers to lobby for immigration reform
Abdul Salam Hanafi, a deputy prime minister in the Taliban's interim government, left, speaks with acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan, Taliban official Amir Khan Muttaqi during talks involving Afghan representatives in Moscow, Russia
Top of The World
Russia hosts multinational talks on Afghanistan
In this photo released by the Yunnan Provincial Command Center for the Safety and Monitoring of North Migrating Asian Elephants, a herd of wandering elephants cross a river using a highway near Yuxi city, Yuanjiang county in southwestern China's Yunnan Pr
Environment
Efforts underway to create and expand new habitats for China’s wandering elephants
People watch a TV screen showing a news program reporting about North Korea's missile launch with file footage at a train station in Seoul, South Korea
Top of The World
North Korea launches suspected ballistic missile
Over 30,000 people trade in used clothing at Kantamanto market, Accra, Ghana.
Environment
How the West’s obsession with fast fashion compounds an environmental nightmare in Ghana
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell gestures during a lecture about business management and leadership in Madrid, Spain
Obituary
In the post-Cold War era, Colin Powell became the most ‘popular and influential’ US military leader, biographer says
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is seen at the State Department in Washington
Top of The World
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell dies at 84
Dozens of people turned out at a rally in Newport in June of 2019 to protest the detention of three migrant farmworkers there
Immigration
Migrant farmworkers fight to end collaboration between Vermont police and US Customs and Border Protection
A lab assistant looks at an assay plate to prepare sequencing at the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, Thursday, March 4, 2021.
COVID-19
From Congo to Chile, small labs are playing a growing role in global understanding of COVID
Three men are show wearing white traditional clothing and standing amidst broken glass from a mosque in the background.
Top of The World
Suicide bombings kill at least 37 at a mosque in Afghanistan
A training session via France's Office of Immigration and Integration.
Immigration
In France, intensive crash courses for immigrants on French values leave many feeling like outsiders
A police officer is shown bending down to walk under yellow caution tape outside of a set of glass doors.
Top of The World
Bow-and-arrow suspect arrested in attack that killed 5 in Norway
Zanzibar-born writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the 2021 Nobel prize for literature, smiles ahead of a press conference in London, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. 
Books
Novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah: ‘Colonialism and its consequences are still with us’
Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells, known as HeLa cells, have been used in medical research without her permission, say a prayer with attorneys outside the federal courthouse in Baltimore
Health & Medicine
Henrietta Lacks’ biographer: ‘So much of science started with her cells’
A family visits across the U.S.-Canada border at the Peace Arch Historical State Park as a cyclist rides past on the Canadian side, in Blaine, Wash.
Top of The World
US to reopen land borders next month to fully vaccinated people
In this photo taken Tuesday, March 7, 2017, fishermen set out for their day's work in the Indian Ocean shortly after dawn in the former pirate village of Eyl, in Somalia's semiautonomous northeastern state of Puntland.
Borders
UN court favors Somalia in maritime border dispute judgment
A cargo ship and oil tanker ship sit idle while docked at the port of Hodeida, Yemen
Environment
A rusting oil tanker off Yemen’s coast is at risk of exploding. It could cut off humanitarian aid to millions.
Lady Laurentino, 74, poses for a photo next to a wood fire she uses to cook near the door of her home in the Jardim Gramacho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Oct. 4, 2021. With the surge in cooking gas prices, Laurentino says she is cooking with wood bec
Justice
Analysts: ‘Pandora Papers’ revelations will make Brazil’s already precarious economy even more unstable
Shafts of sunlight filtering through the forest canopy strike smoke from fires burning outside family huts at an Mbuti pygmy hunting camp in the Okapi Wildlife Reserve outside the town of Epulu, Congo
Environment
DR Congo faces criticism over plans to open Congo rainforest to commercial logging
Screenshot of a soldier from the war epic "Battle at Lake Changjin"
Media
Chinese blockbuster war film salutes China’s military might and heroism
Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr celebrate holding his posters, after the announcement of the results of the parliamentary elections in Tahrir Square, Baghdad, Iraq
Top of The World
Moqtada al-Sadr wins Iraq election
Girls on the Genesis Youth Foundation soccer team show off their skills with the ball at their practice in Des Moines.
Sports
Not all youth soccer players have the same opportunities. These Iowa clubs try to shrink that gap.
A demonstrator holds a paper doll representing regional Catalan President Quim Torra, as they celebrate a holiday known as "Dia de la Hispanidad" or Spain's National Day in Barcelona, Spain, Oct. 12, 2019. Spain commemorates Christopher Columbus' arrival
History
Biden proclaimed Oct. 11 Indigenous Peoples’ Day. But Spain still honors Columbus as part of its National Day.
An Indian army convoy moves on the Srinagar- Ladakh highway at Gagangeer, northeast of Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir
Top of The World
Border talks between India and China fail
A security guard stands guard behind fences around the US Embassy in Beijing on Sept. 6, 2021.
Immigration
‘We all keep our lives on hold’: Thousands wait for diversity visas to go through amid pandemic, other delays 
Zanzibar-born, British-based novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah poses for a photo at his home in Canterbury, England, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021.
Books
Nobel winner Abdulrazak Gurnah brings dignity to stories of colonial dispossession, colleague says
Supporters of Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo gesture as they wait for her to declare her bid to run for president in next year's elections in Quezon city, Metro Manila, Philippines on Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. 
Elections
A star-studded list of candidates files for president in the Philippines
Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa, right, stands in front of reporters as she arrives at the Court of Tax Appeals in Metro Manila, Philippines
Free speech
Nobel Peace Prize is ‘a testament to how truth prevails,’ Rappler journalist says
Abdulrahman al-Sadhan poses with his sister Areej Al Sadhan
Human rights
Sister of imprisoned Saudi aid worker: ‘They are already calling me a terrorist’
A combo of file images of Novaya Gazeta editor Dmitry Muratov, left, and of Rappler CEO and Executive Editor Maria Ressa, who were awarded the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize
Top of The World
Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov awarded Nobel Peace Prize
A health worker inoculates a man during a vaccination drive against COVID-19 in Delhi, India, Sept. 29, 2021. India will soon roll out the world's first DNA vaccine.
COVID-19
India will soon roll out a DNA vaccine for the coronavirus. It’s the latest example of how COVID-19 is transforming vaccines.