Ahead of his 90th birthday, the Dalai Lama announced that he will be reborn after he dies, and that the Tibetan Buddhist ...

Spain's wax museum of dermatology, once a treasured teaching tool for medical students, will be closing its doors. Founded in ...

The EU has awarded Finland around $105 million to help purchase a new icebreaker ship. It’s part of a global race to expand ...

Twenty years ago, four coordinated bombings tore through London's transport network, killing 52 people and injuring hundreds.

Based on the bestselling memoir of the same name by Alexandra Fuller, the film “Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight” explores a violent period of transition in Zimbabwe’s history — through the eyes of ...

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Harold Isaac, a reporter based in Port-au-Prince, about the iconic Hotel Oloffson ...

As migration from El Salvador to the US drops, a small but growing number of Salvadoran immigrants are now returning home ...

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was once home to all kinds of birds, ...

The village of Taybeh describes itself as the last entirely Christian town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. But three priests from Taybeh just put out a statement saying that centuries of Christian ...

Europe’s first major heat wave of the summer began in late June, and caused an estimated 2,300 heat-related deaths. A new rapid study has concluded that almost two-thirds of those deaths would not ...

The Olavide Museum, founded in the late 19th century, contains hundreds of life-sized models of people infected with cutaneous diseases, from ringworm to syphilis. The graphic models helped medical ...

A coalition of farmers, environmentalists and volunteers are coming together to restore the UK’s hedgerows. The UK lost about 50% of these historic boundary lines following WWII. There is also ...