The list of “no shows” at the two-week COP29 climate conference in Azerbaijan is long. Smaller countries, including island ...

From apple pie on Thanksgiving Day to Johnny Appleseed stories passed down for generations, the apple has been a symbol of American culture. But the first apples actually originated halfway around the ...

Police in Italy say they have busted a major criminal art-forging network and seized 2,100 fraudulent works peddled by the ring. The artwork had been attributed to Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, British ...

Thirty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, nostalgia for the old days and ways of socialist East Germany is stronger than ever. Germans even have a name for the phenomenon: “Ostalgie.” From ...

A new play that premiered in New York last month tells the story of a pair of cousins — one from America, the other from ...

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

Europe is the fastest warming continent on earth but scientists say many local governments are badly prepared for weather ...

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

Judith Jamison, of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, died over the weekend. In 1967, the US State Department sent Jamison on a memorable tour of several African nations to perform and establish ...

Haiti’s Transitional Presidential Council has ousted leader Garry Conille after six months, naming businessman Alix Didier Fils-Aimé as his replacement, but critics say the move may violate the ...

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 ...

Since Lebanon has been dealing with ramped-up airstrikes and an Israeli ground invasion, not only have hospitals and clinics have been bombed, but doctors say they have also seen a sharp increase in ...