As Indonesia’s capital physically continues to sink, authorities are embracing a passion project: building a new capital.

Israeli forces have carried out near-daily airstrikes in southern Lebanon despite a ceasefire agreement signed in November of last year. Both Israel and the US say Hezbollah, the Lebanese group ...

Exactly a decade ago, 10 ISIS gunmen opened fire on people across Paris, killing 130 and wounding hundreds more. Ten years on, survivors are slowly rebuilding their lives and attending ceremonies for ...

The Turkish Football Federation announced mass suspensions this week after it found more than 1,000 active players linked to illegal betting accounts. The news breaks just weeks after hundreds of ...

The new Japanese prime minister sparked a diplomatic flare-up late last week, when she said that an attack by China against Taiwan could lead to a military response from Japan. China’s foreign ...

Exactly a decade ago, 10 ISIS gunmen opened fire on people in cafes, at a rock concert and at France’s national soccer stadium. They killed 130 people and wounded hundreds more. Ten years on, ...

The group Venessia.com, which has tracked the population of Venice for 25 years, says the city now has fewer than 45,000 residents. That’s a loss of more than 120,000 people since the 1950s. They’re ...

Pakistan’s parliament cemented the power of its military chief today by passing a constitutional amendment limiting the independence of the country’s highest court. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler ...

It’s meant to be the antithesis of the polluted, climate-threatened megacity. A “forest capital” with no smog, no traffic jams, no overflowing sewage and no encroaching seawater. Instead, Indonesia’s ...

Ten days ago, a flamingo named Frankie made a daring escape from the wildlife sanctuary where she was born and raised. After a week of attempting to bring Frankie home, the sanctuary confirmed that ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek has been walking across the globe on foot for over a decade, for a project called the Out of Eden Walk. He often walks through sparsely populated, extremely ...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler catch us up on some stories that are flying below the radar.