The intertwined destinies of Siti Aisyah, a 25-year-old devout Muslim villager turned prostitute and eventual assassin, and Kim Jong-nam, who was raised as the heir to the North Korean dictatorship and died in a Malaysian airport.
On Amaka Osakwe and life as a woman in Lagos.
How the Kremlin built one of the most powerful information weapons of the 21st century — and why it may be impossible to stop.
Could Kim Jong Un and Donald Trump goad each other into a devastating confrontation?
Life as a Syrian refugee in Germany.
The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.
Survivors of the 2011 Japanese tsunami in a small town on the north-east coast are haunted by a split second decision at a local school.
A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.
The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.
In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.
What the 2016 Summer Games left behind in Rio.
On coming to see your home country the way the rest of the world does.
The lives of six people who survived the atomic bomb.
When Isis rounded up Yazidi women and girls in Iraq to use as slaves, the captives drew on their collective memory of past oppressions – and a powerful will to survive.
A profile of London’s mayor.
“My stories, my family’s stories, were not stories in India. They were just life.”
In October, Iraqi forces set out to retake Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities and ISIS’s biggest stronghold in the country. It would take them nine months and cost thousands of lives.
“There are no good options. But some are worse than others.”
“The most decorated athlete in all of Kazakhstan is a five-year-old Mongolian horse named Lazer.”
“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”
Following a Cadbury factory to Poland.
What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.
How Western Union does business in 2017.
“I feel like we sort of choked.”
How an economic boom and deep gender inequality have created a new industry.
