A year after dozens died protesting his election and hundreds more were imprisoned, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad grants a rare interview to an American journalist.

When members of China’s massive bulletin-board forums perceive wrongdoing, they form a “human flesh search engine” and seek out real world vigilante justice.

How a dental equipment salesman from Germany named Klaus Teuber invented the perfect board game, Settlers of Catan.

The shoot-first-and-ask-questions-later culture of the 101st Airborne Division, an execution of captured Iraqi prisoners, and how far up the chain of command responsibility lies.

The story of the most secret underground society in Paris.

The complex, highly evolved world of Moscow’s subway-riding stray dogs.

In post-Shock and Awe Baghdad, the relationship between a war reporter and his Iraqi guide falls apart.

What exactly is going on politically in Thailand?

A Dutch traffic engineer showed that streets without signs are safer than those cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights.

After a racial hazing incident, the first black head of South Africa’s University of Free State confronts the myths of the reconciliation era.

A conversation with NYU Law Professor Philip Alston on the legality of ‘targeted killings’ by drones, which have made headlines in Pakistan, but also have been deployed by the C.I.A. in countries like Yemen.

It is agreed that the 1977 political murder of a couple in Johannesburg was a political killing that covered up mysterious Swiss Bank deposits. Various reports implicate Cuban Nationalists, Italian Fascists and the CIA.

Night raids by the “Hash Monster” and other perils facing American soldiers at a remote base in the wilderness of the Paktya Province as they attempt to turn over power to the Afghan Army.

Kurdistan is the safest and most stable region in Iraq and at the center of its modern history is Amna Surak Prison, ground zero for both a genocide and an uprising.

Job Cohen, the current mayor of Amsterdam, is leading the Dutch race for Prime Minister on a platform of racial integration that could transform the relationship between European politics and immigration.

A dispatch from the frozen, drunken wasteland of Eastern Siberia.

The rise and fall of The Exile, Russia’s angriest English-language newspaper.

The island of Coiba off the coast of Panama is both a nature preserve and an open-air prison.

Seized passports, debtor’s prison, and slave labor prop up a Disneyland in the desert now in decline.

What’s really happening in Kyrgyzstan.

Both the Chinese government and private matchmakers are laboring to unite people who lost spouses and children in the earthquake.

On the day of the earthquake, two men went into Haiti’s Soccer Federation headquarters. Only one came out.

From Hong Kong to Bangkok to the Golden Triangle, the author searches for something everyone says no longer exists: an opium den.

Karaoke renditions of ‘My Way’ have led to murders in the Phillipines.

Al-Jazeera English dominated the international coverage of the 2008-2009 Gaza war. And now it’s poised to invade North America.