Ugandan singer-songwriter Jon Muq was in Kampala, when he first heard the charity single, “We Are the World” from his cousin’s CD collection. This song opened Muq’s world to pop music and inspired him ...

Germans are voting again this weekend in local elections, and the far-right is again expected to top the polls. But there is another anti-establishment party competing and, despite being just eight ...

There are just three left in Europe, not counting Kevin. Kevin “Dola” de la Torre is Spain’s last human cannonball. The reason for the daredevils’ declining numbers: mainly the danger involved in ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek's walk through China led him to encounters with tea pickers and unique stays at tea ...

A new report by Mediazona and the BBC finds that more than 70,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine. Also, ...

In August, a female doctor was raped and murdered in the Kolkata hospital where she worked, while resting after her night shift. There’s been massive public outcry, and healthcare workers have been ...

Israel’s military says it killed a top military commander from Hezbollah, alongside other “senior operatives”, in an air strike today in Beirut. The attack followed around 200 rockets fired from ...

After a painstaking count, Mediazona and the BBC found that 70,112 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine. Mika Golibovsky, a journalist for Mediazona who worked on the count, explains what ...

Japanese Major League Baseball player Shohei Ohtani set a new record yesterday, hitting his 50th home run of the season coupled with 50 stolen bases. Ohtani is a baseball superstar with fans in the US ...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger — all led by military juntas — have announced plans to introduce a new biometric passport. It’s the latest step in their withdrawal from the regions’ main bloc of nations: ...

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of people have fled political instability and civil war in Somalia. Over that time, there’s been something of a trend of displaced Somalis returning home ...

Karabakh. Some 100,000 Armenians fled the enclave, a region within Azerbaijan made up largely of Armenian residents. Many families who fled Nagorno-Karabakh are still struggling to adjust to life in ...