A Venezuelan cop who had previously starred in an action movie stole a helicopter and fired on the Supreme Court. He became a rebel folk hero, moving amongst safe houses with a small band of followers, until he was killed in a shoot-out that he broadcast live on Instagram.

Facebook was supposed to open up societies like Cambodia—but instead it has wreaked havoc on the fragile political order and destroyed opposition leadership.

How the President’s son-in-law, despite his inexperience in diplomacy and his lack of security clearance, became Beijing’s primary point of interest.

From a penthouse on Central Park, Guo Wengui has exposed a phenomenal web of corruption in China’s ruling elite — if, that is, he’s telling the truth.

Hundreds of thousands of immigrants in the U.S. may face violence and murder in their home countries. What happens when they are forced to return?

Inside China’s vast new experiment in social ranking.

A young couple, their warring families, and the risks of marrying for love in India.

What it means to be beautiful in the most populous country on earth.

“His goal is to stay in power another day, another year, and to deal with complications when—and if—they arise.”

A report from the Philippines, “the test lab for fake news.”

Last year, the U.S. state department said it had uncovered a fake embassy in Accra that had been issuing a stream of forged visas. The story went viral. It was wrong.

In postwar Japan, a single-minded focus on rapid economic growth helped erode family ties. Now, a generation of elderly Japanese are dying alone.

Boko Haram, climate change, predatory armies, and extreme hunger are converging on a marginalized population in Central Africa.

Conversations with the petroleum brotherhood in the UAE.

An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has acknowledged.

How an American-born businessman became an enemy of the Russian state.

The DVD is still king in Lagos’ Alaba International Market for Electronics.

Excerpted from Nollywood: The Making of a Film Empire.

Africa’s most important economy now appears to function for the benefit of one powerful family—the Guptas.

“It was a tiny incident in itself, but it gave me a better glimpse than I had had before of the real nature of imperialism–the real motives for which despotic governments act.” Memories of a British soldier in Burma.

As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.

In Northern Albania, vengeance is as likely a form of restitution as anything the criminal-justice system can offer.

On the sanitized wonderland that is Singapore.

I played a father for a 12-year-old with a single mother. The girl was bullied because she didn’t have a dad, so the mother rented me. I’ve acted as the girl’s father ever since. I am the only real father that she knows.

The Syrian refugee said his name was Paul, and that he was 16 years old. The truth was much more complicated.

“We need to develop political heroism.”