It took almost eight hours to get through the border crossing from Turkey to Syria but we were finally on our way, traveling in a two-car convoy down the Castello Road into the besieged city of Aleppo.
Rio is in the midst of an economic crisis. There's uncertainty about whether it will be ready to host the Olympics this summer. But it's working to get Pokemon Go.
Fear and hope interact powerfully in a crisis. They did so for me on June 28 in Istanbul, Turkey, when I was awakened from a nap in the transit lounge of Ataturk Airport by a bomb blast and gunfire that killed more than 40 people and wounded hundreds of others.
From 1977 through 1986, Gary Monroe photographed the lives of the elderly Jewish community in Florida's South Beach neighborhood. His images take us into their communal lives and vanishing culture.
Boris Johnson is a Conservative British politician famous for some decidedly undiplomatic utterances. But on Wednesday he became the UK's new foreign secretary, a role in which he oversees the country's diplomats and discusses sensitive matters with his global counterparts.
People are reacting with shock, anger and humor since a government spokesperson confirmed the existence of an official presidential hairdresser who makes 9,895 euros ($10,994) per month and travels everywhere with Hollande.
It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
The United States is trying to verify that an airstrike recently killed a high-ranking ISIS commander, and the Pentagon confirmed Wednesday that in a separate action it took out a commander of the Pakistani Taliban who was responsible for the deaths of more than 130 children.
Sobs and screams pierced the air outside an Italian hospital Wednesday as relatives departed after finally identifying some of the 27 people killed in the collision of two passenger trains a day earlier.
Theresa May struck a populist tone in her first public remarks as British Prime Minister on Wednesday, saying she planned to continue predecessor David Cameron's "true legacy" of social justice.
Japanese Emperor Akihito is thinking about stepping down because of his advanced age -- a move that would mark the first abdication of the nation's monarch in about 200 years -- Japanese state broadcaster NHK reported Wednesday.
Theresa May is due to become the 76th prime minister of the United Kingdom Wednesday. But despite over two decades in politics, May is largely unknown on the other side of the Atlantic.