National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek's walk through China led him to encounters with tea pickers and unique stays at tea ...

Ugandan singer-songwriter Jon Muq was in Kampala, when he first heard the charity single, “We Are the World” from his cousin’s CD collection. This song opened Muq’s world to pop music and inspired him ...

Germans are voting again this weekend in local elections, and the far-right is again expected to top the polls. But there is another anti-establishment party competing and, despite being just eight ...

There are just three left in Europe, not counting Kevin. Kevin “Dola” de la Torre is Spain’s last human cannonball. The reason for the daredevils’ declining numbers: mainly the danger involved in ...

A new report by Mediazona and the BBC finds that more than 70,000 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine. Also, ...

Record-setting wildfires are raging in the Pantanal region in Brazil. In a densely vegetated rural area the size of England, ...

The Pantanal, Brazil's wetlands region, covers an area roughly the size of England. Although this region is typically flooded ...

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech in Lebanon acknowledging the deadly attacks this week that caused pagers and ...

Israel’s military says it killed a top military commander from Hezbollah, alongside other “senior operatives”, in an air strike today in Beirut. The attack followed around 200 rockets fired from ...

After a painstaking count, Mediazona and the BBC found that 70,112 Russian soldiers have died in the war in Ukraine. Mika Golibovsky, a journalist for Mediazona who worked on the count, explains what ...

Japanese Major League Baseball player Shohei Ohtani set a new record yesterday, hitting his 50th home run of the season coupled with 50 stolen bases. Ohtani is a baseball superstar with fans in the US ...

Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger — all led by military juntas — have announced plans to introduce a new biometric passport. It’s the latest step in their withdrawal from the regions’ main bloc of nations: ...