Armenian Christians in the Old City of Jerusalem say their centuries-old community is facing an existential threat. It stems ...

Northern Argentina’s Campo del Cielo is where the world's largest mass of meteorites has been found. And it has also been ...

As Americans head to the polls to choose a new president, Ukrainians are keeping a close eye on the result and how it will ...

Israel has conducted thousands of strikes in Gaza and Lebanon since the start of the current war last October. Footage shot by witnesses, as well as survivors' testimonies, raise serious ethical and ...

In Europe, many countries will be paying close attention to the Trump administration’s approach to the war between Russia and Ukraine. While campaigning, Trump said that he would “end” the war in ...

An affluent neighborhood of Seoul is the latest stretch of National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek's worldwide walking ...

DHL’s logistics hub in Leipzig, Germany, is sophisticated and enormous. So, when parcels in the facility started catching ...

Sanctions on Russian diamonds, imposed in response to the war in Ukraine, have damaged business in Surat, India’s diamond polishing hub. Many of the city’s diamond artisans from lower-income ...

A new production at New York’s Metropolitan Opera sounds and looks different from anything presented at the venerable opera house before, featuring flamenco rhythms and dance.

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This week, Sweden announced it was nixing plans for 13 offshore wind farms. Defense Minister Pål Jonson said Monday that the wind farms presented a security risk. In fact, he said, they could drop ...

Training in karate was not always easy for Nobuko Oshiro, who faced bullying and harsh treatment from her instructors as one of the few women in the sport. Now at 77, she is Okinawa’s only female ...