Earlier this month, while China's leaders were staging a grandiose celebration of their revolution's 40th birthday, thousands of somber Hong Kong residents gathered for a dreary commemoration of their own. Far from the fireworks display in Beijing, Hong Kongers huddled in a rainstorm near the bronze statue of Queen Victoria, singing patriotic songs and listening to mournful poems dedicated to those who died in Tiananmen Square.

A mysterious outbreak. Hundreds of stricken schoolgirls. Was it an illness, or was something darker to blame?

On the anti-communist genocide known by the Indonesian Army as Operation Annihilation.

On the twilight of the Iranian Revolution.

Was the attack outside of the LeBaron compound really by a cartel?

An American mercenary, who did security for Trump rallies, attempts a amphibious coup along the Venezuelan border.

A trip to India for total silence.

The passengers of the Diamond Princess came for indulgence, relaxation and bottomless buffets. Then they found themselves trapped on a ship infected with a deadly virus.

The first epicenter is coming back to life, but not as anyone knew it.

From Kenya to Amsterdam to New Jersey, an industry collapses in a matter of weeks.

The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. The story of the single mother who sold out to China.

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

More migrants than ever are crossing the Colombia-Panama border to reach the U.S. Five days inside the Darién Gap, one of the most dangerous journeys in the world.

On water scarcity in Mexico City.

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

Forty-five days of avoiding the coronavirus.

What happens when immigrant-rights advocates reach a breaking point?

Like major contagions throughout history, the new coronavirus causes fear as well as illness. The remedy for both, it turns out, is the same.

On the shadowy machinations driving pro-Russia conspiracy sites like Zero Hedge.

Two well-liked Twitter employees accessed thousands of users’ private information and illegally passed it to the Saudi Royal Family, per the FBI.

For more than 50 years, world governments have trusted a single Swiss code-making machine company to keep the communications of their spies, soldiers, and diplomats secret. It turns out that company was run by the CIA.

Carrying babies for foreign couples was once touted as a win-win for everyone involved. Indian women, however, were often left with little to show for their efforts.

When Zulhumar Isaac’s parents disappeared amid a wave of detentions of ethnic minorities, she had to play a perilous game with the state to get them back.

How the Ebola outbreak spread.

The fight to save an innocent refugee from almost certain death.