On May 29, 2018, Major Maxwell Mahama was jogging in the Ghanaian town of Denkyira-Obuasi when locals took notice of the gun he had in...

In the summer of 2015, a marine biologist posted a graphic video on YouTube of a sea turtle having a plastic straw extracted from its...

This summer, tourists flocking to the coastal Croatian city of Dubrovnik were greeted by a group very much out of place amidst the...

With weekly notifications about how Facebook has failed to protect consumers due to its pursuit of profits, the focus on regulating...

In October 2018, Saudi Arabian operatives killed a Saudi journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, at the country’s consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi...

After the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979, loyal supporters of Ruhollah Khomeini believed that he would advance the nation, uphold the...

On September 28th, 2018, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck the coast of Sulawesi, an Indonesian island. A severe natural disaster in...

In the beautiful green-blue waters surrounding an island in the archipelago nation of Kiribati, Anote Tong calmly treads water as he...

Worldwide, climate change disproportionately affects the Muslim world, with recent increases in heat waves, floods, droughts, and extreme...

At the end of October, Brazil became the latest country to move to the far-right, electing the ultra-conservative Jair Bolsonaro to the...

News of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi embassy in Istanbul has crashed international headlines in...

The name “subtle asian traits” might come across as modest or unassuming, but the Facebook meme group with that name is anything but...

In 1923, Joseph Stalin decided to shift the majority-Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh into Soviet Azerbaijan as an independent oblast....

Over the past five years, state-owned Turkish Airlines has expanded to connect 40 destinations in Sub-Saharan Africa to Istanbul, with...

“I’m struggling to buy food. I’m struggling to keep my phone going. It’s just a nightmare.” This helpless reaction comes from an unnamed...

On December 26, 1945, France ratified the Bretton Woods agreement. With that act, the French created the “franc of the French Colonies of...

Fifty years ago, when Carlos Monteiro began his career as a pediatrician in the sprawling slums of São Paulo, his patients were starving....

On September 26, the United Nations General Assembly addressed, for the first time, the global health epidemic of tuberculosis (TB). In a...

Universal health care can transform a country. In Japan, the kokumin kaihoken insurance system has led to the world’s highest life...

In Pflaumheim, a small German village about a marathon’s distance from Frankfurt, revealing that one “has a Polin,” or “Polish woman,”...