How $100 million in diamonds, gold, and jewelry disappeared from Antwerp Diamond Center’s super-secure vault.

Russian serial killer Alexander Pichushkin was so prolific that even he doesn’t know how many he killed.

A dispatch from a Russian town under siege by hungry bears.

Making bio-diesel is hard. Getting paid $100 million to not make it is surprisingly easy.

How life on four wheels became a brand.

CO2 could soon reach levels that, it’s widely agreed, will lead to catastrophe.

We knew everything we needed to know, and nothing stood in our way. Nothing, that is, except ourselves.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

A new genetic engineering technology could help eliminate malaria and stave off extinctions — if humanity decides to unleash it.

“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”

Apex predators, feeding on pests and pets, teem in suburban Dallas and other American cities.

A trip to Kingston, Jamaica to track down Bunny Wailer, a reggae legend now living “in his own private Zion.”

Long considered a punchline, vegan cheese has quietly but steadily infiltrated mainstream supermarket shelves.

27 courses that will live on in nightmares.

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

On the development of South Korea’s New Songdo and Cisco’s plans to build smart cities which will “offer cities as a service, bundling urban necessities – water, power, traffic, telephony – into a single, Internet-enabled utility, taking a little extra off the top of every resident’s bill.” The demand for such cities is enormous:

China doesn't need cool, green, smart cities. It needs cities, period -- 500 New Songdos at the very least. One hundred of those will each house a million or more transplanted peasants. In fact, while humanity has been building cities for 9,000 years, that was apparently just a warm-up for the next 40. As of now, we're officially an urban species. More than half of us -- 3.3 billion people -- live in a city. Our numbers are projected to nearly double by 2050, adding roughly a New Songdo a day; the United Nations predicts the vast majority will flood smaller cities in Africa and Asia.

On Nigeria’s citizen vigilantes who’ve banded together to fight Islamist terrorists.

A father and his 9-year-old daughter watch Harvard play Yale in football.

A writer embarks on a seven-year trek from Africa to Tierra Del Fuego.

How U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan murdered innocent civilians and mutilated their corpses – and how their officers failed to stop them.

On internships at Disney World, where “labor is meant to have an almost invisible quality.”

Danny Caldwell is openly gay. He’s married. And he’s against gay marriage.

Incremental changes in abortion laws lead to a system where women “turn themselves into pretzels” just to find a doctor.