During Melania Trump's first solo foreign trip, to Ghana, Malawi, Kenya and Egypt, critics called her out out on the colonial undertones expressed through her attire.
Chinese companies are building infrastructure and dams along the vast river that runs through five Southeast Asian countries before emptying into the South China Sea.
In the fight to take the last land held by ISIS, U.S. forces in Syria are supporting local Kurds and Arabs who face hardened fighters amid roads and houses seeded with bombs.
In its searching honesty and multi-layered, visual and verbal storytelling, Nora Krug's memoir investigates mixed feelings about being German and her family's role in the Holocaust.
This year's winners of the Nobel Peace Prize are a Congolese surgeon and a Yazidi activist, both cited for their work opposing sexual violence against women in conflict zones.
The man was arrested for failing to pay a fine for theft, but police officers did not thoroughly check his identity. The 26-year-old died of injuries after a fire broke out in the jail.