3 ways rescuers could free youth soccer team from Thailand cave
A youth soccer team and its coach spent a 12th day huddled in a damp cave Wednesday in northern Thailand as rescuers worked to come up with a plan to save them.
Photos: As roles for female UN peacekeepers grow, so do the dangers
Sebastian Rich visited the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, or UNIFIL, to learn about women in the military and their particular challenges.
PHOTOS: Hollywood meets history at Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding
Britain's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle exchange vows Saturday as throngs cheered from the grounds of Windsor Castle in a ceremony imbued with tradition and music.
The festival where Afghan youth got to shine
For three days, young people in Kabul could focus on painting, performances and photography, rather than the recent suicide bombings.
In "The Death and Life of the Great Lakes," journalist Dan Egan crafts a cautious yet hopeful narrative using history, reporting, and his own experiences to highlight the threats posed to the world's largest freshwater system.
The 2013 collapse of the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh was considered the worst garment industry accident of all time. Here's what has changed since.
"They kept us in a big, covered house where no-one could spot where we were, even by air we could not be seen," one of the girls said.
For weeks during brief cease-fires in the volatile rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus, few Syrians left. That all changed this week as thousands escaping Syrian government bombings left by foot with the only belongings they could carry.
North Korea’s missile program dominates news coverage, but the humanitarian situation there is equally dire, according to a report released this week by aid organization CARE.
