Sea monsters like the Kraken, serpents or the Loch Ness monster may be just in our imagination, but across history, these stories have roots in reality. Today, we still like to exaggerate and tell ...

During the height of its heroin crisis in the 1980s, the Netherlands chose a “third way” to respond to drug use — neither punishment nor abstinence, but harm reduction. Today, that approach has helped ...

In its most comprehensive report on climate change and health to date, the Lancet Countdown study found that rising temperatures cause an average of one death per minute. The World’s Host Carolyn ...

Israeli forces carried out attacks inside Gaza on Tuesday night, killing at least a hundred people, according to Gaza health officials. The strikes came after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

In the early 1900s, Lower Manhattan was home to Little Syria, then the epicenter of the Arabic-speaking community in the US. But today, most people have never heard of it. Syrian American rapper and ...

Today in Jamaica, people are picking up the pieces after the strongest storm seen on Earth — and the strongest hurricane in Jamaica’s history — thrashed the island. Hurricane Melissa has now moved ...

Today in Jamaica, people are picking up the pieces after the strongest storm seen on Earth — and the strongest hurricane in Jamaica’s history — thrashed the island. Also, an attack by Israeli forces ...

The border between Lithuania and Belarus will stay closed for a month, the government in Lithuania decided today. Host Marco Werman explains.

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler bring you some stories that may not have caught your eye.