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.

There’s an angel saving jumpers on an infamous bridge in China.

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.”

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.