Main image: French soccer star Kylian Mbappé appears in an advertisement in Beijing, China, on Oct. 28, 2026. (Pedro Pardo/AFP via Getty Images). Insert: A meme of Mbappé as Mao Zedong. (Origin ...

“His name is Jacob Earling,” says Jenny Berg, her eyes glistening as she gazes down at the tiny baby curled up in her silk top. Berg, a 43-year-old from Gothenburg, Sweden, and her newborn son are ...

America’s evolving sense of itself has always been entwined with fierce debates about public displays of violence ...

Supporters of Yemen’s Houthi movement raise weapons during a rally in Sanaa on Sept. 27, 2024. (Abdallah Adel/AFP via Getty Images) Since the war in Gaza began in October 2023, potent images of ...

Laique was built to show that citizenship could outrank confession, but a policy shift is being seen as a sign of the country ...

Opposition leaders have said they won’t ally with an Arab party, though polls show this is their only sure path to victory ...

The flocks of the Italian capital are helping to protect its remaining natural parks, even as pressures on the ancient practice grow Federica RossiFederica Rossi is an award-winning Italian freelance ...

Mehdi, 18, and Rifat, 19, were meeting me in front of a local park. Both looked nervous, given it was the first time they were being interviewed. I asked them how they felt when they heard of the ...

The court-ordered closure of Mada Masr, after years of legal and security harassment, and the continued detention of six ...

Residents of Raqqa celebrate following the Syrian government forces’ capture of the city, Jan. 19, 2026. (Hosam Katan) At dawn, by the blue waters of the Euphrates, hundreds of military vehicles ...

Ravikumar Thamil Selvi remembers running through the forest carrying her 4-year-old daughter in her arms. It was 2009, at the brutal culmination of 26 years of civil war in Sri Lanka. Then 21 years ...

For many residents of Tehran, the shock of the five-week-long aerial bombardment of their city lasted for only the first few days. Afterward, the city and its residents settled into a grim routine, ...