A lot of people around the world are watching the Greek crisis unfold. Americans may be mezzo-mezzo. But elsewhere, a lot of folks are wondering if they can learn some lessons from the Greek experience. Like Africa!
The US is on the verge of a major upgrade to one of the core components of its nuclear triad: The B61 gravity bomb. Decades old, the new bombs would have selective yields and enhanced guidance systems. But does this break a promise President Barack Obama made in 2009?
The states Guerrero, Michoacán and Jalisco are experiencing a surge in crime, despite the fact that the government has eliminated most of the major drug cartels — long the source of the country's worst crime problems. But it may be that seeming success that has led to the new problem with crime.
Slacker or workhorse? With a study showing that Americans are working harder than ever, we've built a calculator that compares the amount of time you spend on different activities with the average American.
A few weeks back, there was a lot talk about Haitian immigrants facing the prospect of being kicked out of the Dominican Republic. Even people of Haitian descent born in the DR. Dominican authorities set a June 17 deadline for immigrants — mostly Haitian — to apply for legal status or risk deportation. The mass deportations haven't materialized. And the Haitian and Dominican governments continue to say that the Haitians who have left have mostly 'self-deported' on a voluntary basis. But some Haitians who did leave tell a different story.
Researchers working in Guinea have developed an experimental Ebola vaccine that they say is highly effective. But it has been a long time coming, and groups like the World Health Organization have admitted the need for emergency response reform before another crisis strikes.
Greenland is melting fast, and that's bad news for sea level rise and other impacts of climate change. But The World's Ari Daniel, on assignment with scientists studying a rapidly melting Greenland glacier, says all that bad news doesn't make the world's biggest island any less of a wondrous place.
The FBI has been called in to investigate the hanging death of Sandra Bland, a young, black woman in a Texas jail. The official cause is “suicide,” but her family finds that incomprehensible. And many are questioning how the Texas police handled what should have been a routine traffic stop.
Zimo is a Syrian techno and video artist living in exile in Lebanon. His real name is Samer Saem Eldahr and he calls his music project Hello Psychaleppo. From his home in Beirut, Zimo creates music and videos that pay homage to his homeland and city of Aleppo.
Guatemala shut down international adoptions in 2008. Before that, US families adopted some 30,000 Guatemalan children. Now those kids are growing up, and some want a connection with their birth families. Enter "searchers," who will try to track down birth families for a fee. But as one adoptive mom found out, that process can be difficult — and it's as unregulated as international adoption itself once was in Guatemala.
A 19th Century sunshine measuring device is still hard at work on a hill in Milton, Massachusetts, recording the amount of the sun's rays reaching the Earth each day. Taken together, each day's logs form the longest still-running weather data in North America.