Forty years ago, Shenzhen, China, was little more than a cluster of villages, home to a few hundred thousand people. Today, ...

In 2009, Swiss photographers Mathias Braschler and Monika Fischer set out to put faces to the environmental damage caused by rising global temperatures. Some 16 years later, the photographer-couple ...

Leaders of Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are slated to travel to Washington this week to sign a peace deal overseen by US President Donald Trump. New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson ...

What began as messy pageant drama at Miss Universe has now turned into something far more serious. A co-owner of the contest, Mexican businessman Raúl Rocha Cantú, is accused of ties to a trafficking ...

Juan Orlando Hernández, former president of Honduras, was convicted last year in a New York courtroom of flooding the US with tons of cocaine. This week, he walked out of prison a free man. The ...

Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted last year in a New York courtroom of flooding the US with tons of cocaine. This week, US President Donald Trump has pardoned him and he’s ...

If you’re a human, the courteous thing to do when you get sick is to isolate yourself from others so that you don’t get them sick, too. If you’re an adult ant, that same courtesy still applies. But ...

China’s status as a global superpower was unimaginable just half a century ago. In the 1970s, the country was overwhelmingly ...

Battling a shortage of skilled labor, Germany’s businesses are bringing in reinforcements: young foreigners training in the ...

As the US ramps up military pressure on Venezuela, the Maduro government is tightening its grip at home. Families of political prisoners describe disappearances, torture and a justice system that ...

There’s no shortage of negotiations about how to end the war in Ukraine. Tomorrow, Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with US envoy Steve Witkoff. And today, the Ukrainian leader met with ...