North Koreans who fled to South Korea's Gyodong Island during the Korean war in the 1950s still pine for relatives in their former home. Unable to visit their loved ones' graves, they perform funeral ...

From her apartment in rural Germany, Abeba winces as she stares at her phone. The men holding her brother in the desert are sending videos of his torture as they seek to extract a hefty ransom.

President Donald Trump wants to restart nuclear testing. Exactly how escalatory that is depends on what kind of testing he’s ...

The Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) disrupted schools, derailed careers, and reshaped countless lives across China. For many, it meant a lost decade of education. But for ethnic minority women like ...

A deadly typhoon batters the Philippines, a Chinese court sentences Myanmar scam ringleaders to death, Cardinal Czerny visits ...

President Donald Trump is meeting face-to-face with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on the final day of Trump’s trip to Asia. It's a chance for the leaders of the world’s two largest economies ...

At the Vatican’s Jubilee of Roma, Sinti, and Travelers, Pope Leo XIV praised pilgrims for their deep trust in God despite centuries of exclusion, telling thousands of participants that their witness ...

When discussing US-South Africa relations, Mills, Hartley, and Saunderson-Meyer need to get past their fixation on the failings of the ANC, real though they are, and begin paying much greater ...

Balancing her creativity with the responsibilities of her day-to-day life has been a challenge, but a worthwhile one for grace shinhae jun (who uses lowercase lettering in the spelling of her name).

Pope Leo XIV will canonize seven new saints on Sunday including an Italian lawyer who renounced Satanism and became “an apostle of the rosary,” a martyred Armenian archbishop, and a Venezuelan ...

US confident of Gaza ceasefire despite strikes. Australia deports asylum seekers to Nauru. Sudan siege ends in massacres.