Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for ...

It’s been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks ...

Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about ...

Whale song is more similar to human speech than previously thought. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have the details.

American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the ...

In Poland, an herb called rutka was long stigmatized based on a belief that witches used it for poisoning. But now, the all-woman band Polky is out with a new single — “Rutka” — that flips the ...

A Syrian military defector whose photographs made clear the extent to which torture and killing were taking place inside the prisons of the former Assad regime has revealed his identity. The man ...

Voters in Ecuador will head to the polls for general elections this weekend. The next president will face the enormous task of dismantling well-funded and powerful organized crime groups in the ...

The NFL wants the eyes of the world on this weekend’s Super Bowl. And one place where American football already has traction is Japan, home to one of the top leagues outside of North America. Reproter ...

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills ...

If you can’t sing alone, sing along — that’s the spirit behind Germany’s Rudelsingen, literally “wolf pack singing”, in which hundreds or even thousands of the tonally challenged singers come together ...

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made clear that despite his musings about Gaza this week, “the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza.” But Americans ...