In the aftermath of Israel's 2006 invasion of Lebanon, photographer Rania Matar captured images of families whose homes were ...

In the aftermath of the 2006 Israeli invasion of Lebanon, photographer Rania Matar captured images of families whose homes were destroyed. Among her photos was one of a little girl she named Barbie ...

The wrinkles on the trunks of elephants are not a result of aging. They develop in utero.  And scientists have now discovered it is possible to determine an elephant’s “trunkedness” (kind of like ...

The FBI arrested an Afghan national named Ahmad Tawhedi on Monday, alleging that he planned to carry out an Election Day terror attack in or near Oklahoma City. Tawhedi has indicated an allegiance to ...

As Hurricane Milton approaches, authorities in Florida are providing evacuation orders, emergency information and shelter locations in Spanish and Haitian Creole, as well as in English. But Florida ...

According to new research, there is a cap on human life expectancy. As The World’s Sarah Birnbaum explains, advances in life-prolonging medicine and technology are not yielding a significant increase ...

Officials in Cameroon say there’s no need to worry over the whereabouts or health of President Paul Biya. But the 91-year-old leader was last seen in public a month ago, and has missed high-level ...

Gabriela Ortiz is one of Mexico’s best-known classical composers, and she’s becoming better known in the United States, as the Los Angeles Philharmonic has premiered many of her rhythmic, colorful ...

Internationally popular chat app, Discord, has been banned in Turkey. The ban followed public outrage after comments were made on the app in support of the murder of two teenage girls in Turkey. Host ...

Some Israeli leaders see this as a rare moment of opportunity. They want the Israeli military to destroy Iranian nuclear sites, critical to the program that Israel has long seen as an existential ...

Brazil has lifted the ban on Elon Musk’s social media platform X. It was banned by the country’s Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Aug. 30 after a long dispute over free speech and ...