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After days of fighting in Sudan, President Biden has confirmed that all American government personnel and their families have been evacuated from the U.S. embassy in Khartoum.

Nomadic herders who live across West Africa are having to travel further and further south for their cows to graze. Some are letting cows graze on cropland, leading to deadly conflicts with farmers.

An estimated 160 million children were involved in child labor around the world at the beginning of 2020, according to a new report.

Rice farming is rare in the Northeast U.S. But one Gambian-born farmer is trying to make a go of it in New York's Hudson Valley.

More than a hundred countries just promised to protect and restore forests. Similar pledges in the past have not succeeded, but forest advocates hope that this effort can learn from past mistakes.

Italian magistrates are considering a British request for the extradition of a suspect in the July 21 attempted bombings in London. The suspect was arrested in Rome Friday after an international manhunt.

Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol died in police custody. Next week, a South African Court will consider reopening investigations into police misconduct from that era.

Germany is getting ready to welcome millions of visitors for the World Cup, which starts in a few weeks. The country is also trying to bolster its image as a multi-cultural, fun-loving kind of place — but a series of racial hate crimes in recent months has put the spotlight on what many say is a growing racism problem that Germany has tried to ignore.

Election day dawns in Africa's biggest democracy, as Nigerians vote in one of the most consequential elections in decades.

It might sound like a topic for dusty academic journals, but taxidermy — at least the way Carl Akeley practiced it — was full of exotic safaris, brutal killing and bloody encounters with the very creatures he was trying to preserve. Akeley is the subject of Jay Kirk's new book, Kingdom Under Glass.