Driving toward Rio de Janeiro’s airport, you pass Maré, a favela where few stop without good reason. Unlike many hillside ...

An electronic duo and a traditional Ahwach band, both from Morocco, have teamed up to record a new album that pushes the ...

In Turkey, families commemorate their loved ones by sharing lokma — a small, deep-fried desert — and by saying prayers for ...

Around 15% of Chile’s citizens are over the age of 65, making the country one of the fastest-aging nations in Latin America.

Almost two years after the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Syrians in the diaspora are still processing all they ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek is on a years-long journey around the world, mostly on foot, called the Out of Eden ...

A new survey of the Canadian accent from McGill University has found that the Canadian accent is shifting closer to the ...

The Norwegian village of Longyearbyen is one of the most remote settlements in the world. It’s located on the Svalbard ...

A quick update from Cambodia, where hundreds of people have been evicted from their dream home and forced to walk the ...

Through hundreds of hours of interviews with North Korean defectors, author Jieun Baek has tried to piece together insights ...

After years of climate pledges that have failed to deliver sufficient support on the ground, African countries are heading to ...

The World’s Host Aaron Schachter speaks with Dr. Robert Vonderheide about a new vaccine that could soon help prevent melanoma ...