In Uganda, scientists have found a new use for catnip: mosquito repellent. A new study presented at the Society for ...

Reading Lolita in Tehran, the best-selling memoir by Azar Nafisi, came out in 2003. It told the story of how Nafisi and seven ...

After Venezuela’s deadly earthquakes, many international rescue teams have left as the window for finding survivors narrows.

We listen to a track from Marlon Williams. She’s New Zealand’s hottest Māori singer right now, and she’s accompanied on the ...

For the past four years, Matariki, the Māori New Year, has been an official holiday in New Zealand. Māori poet Tayi Tibble ...

Health workers on the frontline of the Ebola outbreak are on strike. Complaints include a lack of protective equipment and ...

The strategic central Sudanese city of el-Obeid is now the focal point in the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The ...

From the Iran war to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, events this year have highlighted the way nations use the global energy ...

Dozens of people have died, and hundreds have been displaced in flooding across West Africa. The World’s Marco Werman speaks ...

DW reporter Stephanie Wolf brings us the story of a ballet about Soviet defector Rudolf Nureyev that’s getting a revival in ...

Canada is facing its Brexit moment – and it’s largely around oil. The secessionists in Alberta don’t want Federal environmental regulations holding back oil industry expansion, nor do they want to ...

The meeting of 32 world leaders comes as the future of the military alliance has never looked more uncertain. NATO Secretary ...