Murat Palta makes a splash in the Turkish art world by imagining how a 16th-century Ottoman miniaturist would depict the ...

In her first interview since leaving the State Department, Jessica Stern, who served as the US special envoy to advance LGBTQ ...

Earlier this week, a bomb went off in a quiet Moscow suburb. A man named Armen Sargsyan was killed. He was the leader of a pro-Russian paramilitary group in eastern Ukraine and was a wanted man in ...

Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

Whale song is more similar to human speech than previously thought. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have the details.

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills ...

American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the ...

A Syrian military defector whose photographs made clear the extent to which torture and killing were taking place inside the prisons of the former Assad regime has revealed his identity. The man ...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

In Poland, an herb called rutka was long stigmatized based on a belief that witches used it for poisoning. But now, the all-woman band Polky is out with a new single — “Rutka” — that flips the ...

Voters in Ecuador will head to the polls for general elections this weekend. The next president will face the enormous task of dismantling well-funded and powerful organized crime groups in the ...