Astronauts from India, Poland and Hungary left the International Space Station on their SpaceX capsule today. It was the first time in more than 40 years any of the three countries sent astronauts of ...

"The Salt Path" is a best-selling memoir and major film. And now, an investigation by The Observer has revealed several of ...

In the days following the Israeli strikes on Iran, the Iranian government has deported nearly half a million Afghans. That’s according to the United Nations refugee agency. The deportees say they face ...

Whether you know it or not, how you picture the hills and streams of Kansas is likely thanks to a Swedish painter. Birger Sandzén was known as “the Van Gogh of the Plains.” KCUR’s Julie Denesha ...

Customs agents at the Cologne Bonn Airport in Germany revealed today that what appeared to be a shipment of chocolate cake mix, was in fact a package containing 1,500 tarantulas being smuggled from ...

In Italy right now, flocks of flamingoes are messing with fields, where the rice used for risotto is grown. The flamingos use their webbed feet to dig up algae, insects and other tasty treats. But ...

More opposition mayors have been arrested in Turkey in an effort to fight corruption. But rights groups say the arrests are politically motivated and represent an escalation in President Recep Tayyip ...

Protests are a hallmark of university life — but on campuses across England, student activism and academic freedom are facing mounting pressure. Demonstrations against the war in Gaza are increasingly ...

The Israeli airstrikes on Iran have stopped — at least for now. But for many Iranians, the real struggle is just beginning: ...

This week marks three decades since a massacre in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica where more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys were systematically killed by Serb forces in 1995. Some survivors and ...

A new trend in Mexico is transforming flower deliveries into viral social media performances —complete with music, confetti and dramatic flair. What began as one man’s creative response to the ...

It was at music school in the United States that Alex Alvear really came to appreciate the different styles of music from his home country: Ecuador. He shared his story with Jared Bowen for “The ...