In a country where women are seen but not often heard, Rula Ghani intends to play a prominent role. The wife of Afghanistan's new president hopes to help the country's most vulnerable people. In an interview at the Afghan Embassy in Washing ...

Skiing on breathtaking peaks above 4,000 metres, in a region where not a single ski lift has ever been built, one talented young Afghan is finding freedom from the restrictions and repressions of his country. Around here all you need to start skiing ...

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More than 11 million Syrians have been displaced since civil war broke out in 2011. The fighting has caused the largest refugee crisis in the world today and one of the biggest since World War II. Here are four stories of families struggling to stay ...

Danish media say several shots have been fired at a cafe in Copenhagen where a meeting about freedom of speech was being held.

Whether it's with a sympathetic tilt of the head or the excited sweep of a tail, dogs seem to be saying they can sense exactly what we're feeling. Now, a new study has found that dogs are able to tell the difference between happy and angry ...

Led by a celebrated Yazidi fighter, a small band of Kurdish peshmerga survived a months-long ISIS onslaught. Unlike others in Syria and Iraq, this sacred place still stands, nearly unscathed.

Pasco Police Shoot Man Throwing Rocks

The United Nations’ discussions on the Holocaust serve to mask underlying anti-Semitism.

'I feel the policy regarding veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is a personal attack on me, my identity as a Muslim woman and my religious beliefs,’ said Zunera Ishaq

New York City, once notorious for high crime, broke a record on Thursday with no murders reported for 10 straight days, police said. The historic calm achieved at 12:01 a.m. Thursday comes on the

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Women, priests, dapperly dressed gents — no one could be trusted.

Paul Elam became the face of the modern men’s rights movement by rallying against false rape accusations and divorce courts that favor mothers. But exclusive BuzzFeed News interviews with his estranged daughter and ex-wife show that his pet causes ar ...

Scientists studied more than 1,000 healthy joggers and non-joggers over a 12-year period. Those who jogged at a steady pace for less than two and a half hours a week were least likely to die in this time. But those who ran more than four hours a we ...

Ubuntu should work on Raspberry Pi 2 because of its ARMv7 CPU.

Modern browsers will now be served a Flash-less version of YouTube by default.

Jayne Larson got an intimate view of the life of a Saudi princess when she worked as a chauffeur for the royal family. There was no application form; there was no paperwork at all. Jayne Amelia Larson got paid in cash and the only requirements were t ...

This American Life called a troll, got him to apologize, admit to misogyny.

The 12-part podcast "Serial" never formally interviewed Jay Wilds, the star witness who helped convict Adnan Syed of Hae Min Lee's murder. The Intercept interviews Jay at length for the first time.