The majority of deaths from the 2004 earthquake and tsunami were in Indonesia. But one island had just a handful of deaths, ...

Mohd Riswan, 72, remembers his father telling him bedtime stories about tsunamis, called smong in the local Devayan language ...

Two decades after a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck Indonesia, some survivors are rebuilding their lives in the ...

Nearly a quarter of a million people died from the earthquake and tsunami of December 26, 2004; the majority of deaths were in Indonesia. But one island, off the coast of the hardest-hit province in ...

In October, Albania’s former president was arrested on suspicion of corruption and money laundering. The former prime minister and leader of the main opposition Democratic Party is also awaiting trial ...

It’s been a busy year of news — including in sports. The World’s Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman revisit some of our favorite sports stories of 2024 with our sports correspondent Bianca Hillier.

Normal life is returning to many places in Syria. Children are going back to school, students back to universities. There are clean-up campaigns in different cities. Meanwhile, Syria’s revolutionary ...

With all the stress and strife in the world, we all have different ways of coping. For the Afro-Caribbean band The Bongo Hop, they turn to songwriting. Their tune “La Pata Coja” tells us that no ...

Jan. 1 is, of course, the start of the new year. But it’s also the day Haitians celebrate their independence from France. It’s a proud legacy they’re honoring: Haiti was the first nation to gain ...

Yemen’s Houthi militants are backed by Iran. But as Israel and the US ramp up strikes on Houthi strongholds in Yemen, the militants continue to hit targets inside Israel and threaten international ...

Finnish authorities seized an oil tanker on Thursday, claiming it was involved in cutting vital undersea cables and that the ship might have been part of Russia’s “shadow fleet” aimed at evading ...

In Argentina, a country of sporting icons like Lionel Messi and Diego Maradona, soccer fandom is, for many, akin to a ...