The World: Latest Stories

India's 'Cockroach Party' and the 20-day hunger strike causing a stir

How to protect yourself from wildfire smoke

PA prison tries out the 'Scandinavian model' to benefit inmates and officers

Top of the Cape Verde charts

The US wants to 'dismantle' the ICC

A hole in the flag

The Romanian revolution of 1989 is uniquely memorialized through the "flag with a hole," a powerful symbol of resistance against Nicolae Ceaușescu’s communist regime. During the winter protests that spread from Timișoara to Bucharest, citizens expressed their defiance not by creating new banners, but by cutting the com...

Skies over Toronto still dark from wildfire smoke

Elusive new monkey species has a distinctive grunt and bright orange lips

Leaders 'drunk on power' are world's biggest threat, says Ugandan opposition activist

2026 World Cup is in its final stretch

Animals adapting to climate change

France legalizes assisted dying over objections from some doctors and churches

Ukraine's defense minister dismissed amid cabinet changes

Cuba's power grid buckles

New city discovered in the Egyptian desert

Renewed fighting between US and Iran takes deadly toll on commercial seafarers

Baristas serve drug war stories along with java

Gibraltar border opens

French singer Camille — along with her mom — produces first album in 15 years

The man who will be the UK's next prime minister