On the Aran islands of Ireland.

A Taliban intelligence chief’s death and resurrection.

Gregg Bemis is an 87-year-old retired venture capitalist who owns the salvage rights to the Lusitania. He’s determined to prove an alternate theory as to why the ship was attacked in 1915. Unfortunately, the Irish government isn’t so into his plan.

An orphan named Patience and an argument for open immigration.

“Russian humor is slapstick, only you actually die.”

A profile of the favorite to become the next UK prime minister.

The author boards the Costa Atlantica for several days of line dancing, burlesque and buffets as part of the cruise industry’s new foray into China.

Two brothers divided by Central African Republic’s civil war.

When Putin suggested to Obama that the White House and the Kremlin speak through an intermediary, he named who he thought was the obvious candidate: his friend Steven Seagal.

There’s still a gold rush on in the Andes.

Fake news stories. Doctored photographs. Staged TV clips. Armies of paid trolls.

The process of claiming a loved one’s body after a massacre at a Kenyan university.

A mystery embedded deep within the Amazon.

Why do all those rugged coastlines, moors and stone buildings make England seem haunted?

The hopes, dreams and failures of Nigeria’s commercial capital.

The mysterious death of one of college basketball’s most promising coaches.

Coastal erosion is leading more than a few Britons to watch their homes crumble into the sea.

Kamel Daoud’s celebrated retelling of Albert Camus’s The Stranger came within two votes of winning the Prix Goncourt. It has also made him a target of radical Islamists.

He was one of Israel’s greatest spies. Then he brought his own country to the brink of war.

Old India and new, viewed through the prism of the writer’s hometown.

“None of this should have ever happened. It makes absolutely no sense at all. It’s truly crazy.”

Paleram Chauhan, a 52-year-old Indian farmer, was shot dead during the summer of 2013. The reason: his opposition to a gang of criminals stealing his village’s sand to sell on the black market.

Beatrice Munyenyezi told her New Hampshire neighbors that she was refugee from the Rwandan genocide. Half of that was true.

Three siblings from Chicago ran away to become jihadis. Is it fair to try them as terrorists?