Brazilian musician Laíz grew up in a conservative, religious household in Sao Paulo. Music wasn’t exactly banned at home, but it fell into two ‘safe’ categories — Phil Collins and Bach. It was only ...

Israel says it struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in a huge explosion that shook the Lebanese capital. We have the latest from Beirut, and reaction from Israel. And in Kenya, the self-proclaimed cult ...

The UN Food and Agriculture organization says that in the next 25 years, salinity will affect more than half of the arable land around the globe. Growers in regions where the soil has gotten too salty ...

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a defiant speech at the United Nations headquarters in New York. He said the Israeli military will do what it needs to do to degrade Hezbollah in ...

Dozens of people are being tried in a court in Kenya’s Mombasa county for the massacre of hundreds of people last year. The deadly event centers around the Goodnews Church. Victims and prosecutors say ...

Japan’s ruling LDP party has selected Shigero Ishiba as its leader, paving the way for him to become the county’s next prime minister. The former defense minister, a centrist, unexpectedly beat out a ...

Paraguay is the only country in Latin America that has found a way to preserve and protect the official status of an Indigenous language — Guarani — alongside Spanish. Most Paraguayans speak Guaraní ...

The past couple of weeks have been deadly in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa. More than 100 people have been killed or gone missing since Sept. 9, when rival factions of the Sinaloa Cartel began ...

A year ago, Azerbaijan’s military took control of Nagorno-Karabakh. Some 100,000 Armenians fled the enclave, a region within Azerbaijan made up largely of Armenian residents. Many families who fled ...

Sunil Singh took a 12-hour train ride from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh to the neighboring Maharashtra to pray before a 15-foot bejeweled statue called Lalbaugcha Raja in central Mumbai. “I feel ...

More than 100 women have come forward accusing the former owner of the British store Harrods of sexual abuse and rape. Mohamed Al Fayed, who died last year, was accused in a recent BBC documentary of ...

Two sisters from Haiti have founded separate nonprofits: one at an institution based in Boston that serves immigrant families, the other in Port-au-Prince at an after-school center for kids and teens.