Could war come back to Western Sahara? Some of Algeria’s Sahrawi refugees think so.

Tumana Ahmed is tired of dreaming of a homeland she has never seen. The 28-year-old was born in the desolate desert of western Algeria, in a refugee camp that was supposed to be temporary. Only there has been nothing temporary about her situation, or that of about 150,000 of her current neighbors. Ahmed’s family and […]

















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Is Luis Estrada the conscience of Mexico?

MEXICO CITY--A Luis Estrada film is not a riddle to decipher. The themes from the famous Mexican director come blaring at you with their high-beams on, usually from the opening credits. Within the first minutes of his most famous film, the 2010 drug-war indictment “Infierno” (Hell), the main character gets deported, held up at gunpoint, […]

















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Watch: Iraq’s miserable 2014, in two minutes

More than a decade after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the country is no closer to living in peace and stability. The ravages of the Islamic State, which captured swaths of Iraqi territory this year, has led to a startling refugee crisis. More than 2 million Iraqis were forced from their homes this year alone. […]

















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How a Bollywood blockbuster about an alien from outer space prompted outrage in India

NEW DELHI -- It is not the usual boy-meets-girl Bollywood movie plot. The new blockbuster holiday movie called “PK” is about how an alien-meets-India. The film has earned more than $33 million in the 10 days since it opened, but has also earned much ire from Hindus. It shows a funny and loveable alien who […]

















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Searching for a sliver of hope in Congo

KIVUYE, Congo -- The Rwandan militia commander showed up moments after I arrived in this village deep in the eastern Congo. He was barely more than a teenager, a youth in lizard-colored fatigues and cap affixed with a red star, clutching a walkie-talkie. But he was called Major Hamza. And his authority was clear. He […]

















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Iran says it has a machine that can detect a drug addict from a mile away

According to Iran’s state-run Mehr News Agency, Iranian scientists have developed a radar that can detect explosives, narcotics and even drug addicts from almost a mile away. The device’s inventor, Seyed Ali Hosseini, told the state news service this week that the “radar tracker was designed and built to detect drugs, explosives, bodies alive and […]

















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100 years ago, British and German soldiers celebrated the world’s saddest Christmas

It was Christmas morning, 1914. In the muddy, bloody fields of Belgium, British and German soldiers peered across the way at each other from their miserable trenches. World War I was in full swing. And then something miraculous and moving happened. "About 10 o'clock this morning I was peeping over the parapet when I saw […]

















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Birth control as ‘treason?’ The logic behind the Turkish president’s latest controversy

Over the past few months, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has made a number of provocative statements. At times, he has pushed what appeared to be a socially conservative agenda; telling a conference that dealt with women's rights that women could not be equal to men in November, for example. At other points, he appeared […]

















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The verdant landscapes of Iceland, through a new lens

(NOTE: To interact with the photos, click on different elements in the frame in the foreground, midground and background.) From Skaftafell National Park, a climber takes in a view of Hvannadalshnukur, Iceland's highest peak (6,923 ft.). Although covered in ice, the peak is on the rim of the summit crater of the Oraefajokull volcano, the […]

















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